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Bible Verses About Servants

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  1. and saith: `Cursed is Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brethren.'

  2. And he saith: `Blessed of Jehovah my God is Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.

  3. and there is a strife between those feeding Abram's cattle and those feeding Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite are then dwelling in the land.

  4. And Abram heareth that his brother hath been taken captive, and he draweth out his trained domestics, three hundred and eighteen, and pursueth unto Dan.

  5. And Abram saith unto Sarai, `Lo, thine handmaid is in thine hand, do to her that which is good in thine eyes;' and Sarai afflicted her, and she fleeth from her presence.

  6. And the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, `Turn back unto thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hands;'

  7. he is certainly circumcised who is born in thine house, or bought with thy money; and My covenant hath become in your flesh a covenant age-during;

  8. and all the men of his house--born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger--have been circumcised with him.

  9. And he saith, `My Lord, if, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes, do not, I pray thee, pass on from thy servant;

  10. And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech's servants have taken violently away,

  11. And Abraham is old, he hath entered into days, and Jehovah hath blessed Abraham in all things ;

  12. and Abraham saith unto his servant, the eldest of his house, who is ruling over all that he hath, `Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh,

  13. and I cause thee to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens, and God of the earth, that thou dost not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in the midst of whom I am dwelling;

  14. but unto my land and unto my kindred dost thou go, and hast taken a wife for my son, for Isaac.'

  15. And the servant saith unto him, `It may be the woman is not willing to come after me unto this land; do I at all cause thy son to turn back unto the land from whence thou camest out?'

  16. And Abraham saith unto him, `Take heed to thyself, lest thou cause my son to turn back thither;

  17. Jehovah, God of the heavens, who hath taken me from the house of my father, and from the land of my birth, and who hath spoken to me, and who hath sworn to me, saying, To thy seed I give this land, He doth send His messenger before thee, and thou hast taken a wife for my son from thence;

  18. and if the woman be not willing to come after thee, then thou hast been acquitted from this mine oath: only my son thou dost not cause to turn back thither.'

  19. And the servant putteth his hand under the thigh of Abraham his lord, and sweareth to him concerning this matter.

  20. And the servant taketh ten camels of the camels of his lord and goeth, also of all the goods of his lord in his hand, and he riseth, and goeth unto Aram-Naharaim, unto the city of Nahor;

  21. and he causeth the camels to kneel at the outside of the city, at the well of water, at even-time, at the time of the coming out of the women who draw water.

  22. And he saith, `Jehovah, God of my lord Abraham, cause to meet, I pray Thee, before me this day--(and do kindness with my lord Abraham;

  23. lo, I am standing by the fountain of water, and daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water;

  24. and it hath been, the young person unto whom I say, Incline, I pray thee, thy pitcher, and I drink, and she hath said, Drink, and I water also thy camels) --her Thou hast decided for Thy servant, for Isaac; and by it I know that Thou hast done kindness with my lord.'

  25. And it cometh to pass, before he hath finished speaking, that lo, Rebekah (who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, wife of Nahor, brother of Abraham) is coming out, and her pitcher on her shoulder,