Genesis 24:35-67

Bishops^{(i) 35} And God blessed my maister merueylously, that he is become great, and hath geuen him sheepe and oxen, siluer and golde, men seruauntes, and maydeseruauntes, camelles and asses ³⁶ And Sara my maisters wyfe bare hym a sonne when she was olde, and vnto him hath he geue all that he hath ³⁷ And my maister made me sweare, saying: thou shalt not take a wyfe to my sonne amongest the daughters of the Chanaanites, in whose lande I dwell ³⁸ But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne ³⁹ And I sayde vnto my maister: peraduenture the woman wyll not folowe me ⁴⁰ And he answered me: the Lord before whom I walke, wyll sende his angell with thee, and prosper thy iourney, and thou shalt take a wyfe for my sonne of my kinred, and of my fathers house ⁴¹ Then shalt thou be free from this othe [made] to me, when thou commest to my kinred: and yf they geue not thee [one] thou shalt be free from this othe [made] to me ⁴² And so I came this day vnto the wel, and sayde: O Lorde the God of my maister Abraham, if it be so nowe that thou makest my iourney whiche I go prosperous ⁴³ Beholde, I stande by the well of water: and when a virgin commeth foorth to drawe water, and I say to her, Geue me [I pray thee] a little water of thy pitcher to drinke ⁴⁴ And she say to me, Drinke thou, and I wyll also drawe for thy Camelles: let the same be the woman whom the Lorde hath prepared for my maisters sonne ⁴⁵ And before I had made an ende of speakyng in myne heart, beholde, Rebecca came foorth, and her pitcher on her shoulder, and she went downe vnto the well, and drewe water, and I sayde vnto her, Geue me drinke I pray thee ⁴⁶ And she made haste, and toke downe her pitcher from her [shoulder] and said: Drinke, and I wyll geue thy Camelles drinke also. So I dranke, and she gaue the Camelles drinke also ⁴⁷ And I asked her, saying: whose daughter art thou? She answered: the daughter of Bethuel Nachors sonne, whom Milcha bare vnto hym: and I put the earring vpon her face, and the bracelettes vpon her handes ⁴⁸ And I bowed my selfe, and worshipped the Lorde, and blessed the Lorde God of my maister Abraham, whiche had brought me the ryght way, to take my maisters brothers daughter vnto his sonne ⁴⁹ Nowe also if [he] wyll consent to deale mercyfully and truely with my maister, tel me: and if not, tel me also, that I may turne me to the ryght hande, or to the left ⁵⁰ Then aunswered Laban and Bethuel, saying: This saying is proceeded euen of the Lorde, we can not therefore say vnto thee eyther good or bad ⁵¹ Beholde, Rebecca [is] before thee, take her, and go, that she may be thy maisters sonnes wife, euen as god hath sayde ⁵² And when Abrahams seruaunt heard theyr wordes, he worshipped the Lord, bowyng hym selfe towarde the earth ⁵³ And the seruaunt toke foorth iewelles of syluer, and iewelles of golde, and rayment, and gaue them to Rebecca: and to her brother, and to her mother he gaue costly gyfte ⁵⁴ And they did eate and drinke, both he and the men that were with hym, and taried all night: and when they rose vp in the mornyng, he said: let me depart vnto my maister ⁵⁵ Her brother and her mother aunswered: let the damsell abyde with vs, and it be but euen ten dayes, and then shall she go ⁵⁶ He sayde vnto them: hynder me not, beholde, the Lorde hath prospered my iourney, sende me away therefore, that I may go to my maister ⁵⁷ And they sayde: we wyll call the damsell, and enquire at her mouth ⁵⁸ And they called foorth Rebecca, and sayde vnto her: wylt thou go with this man? And she aunswered, I wyll go ⁵⁹ So they let Rebecca theyr sister go, and her nurse, & Abrahams seruaunt, and his men ⁶⁰ And they blessed Rebecca, and sayde vnto her: thou art our sister, growe into thousande thousandes, and thy seede possesse the gate of his enemies ⁶¹ And Rebecca arose and her damselles, and gat them vp vpon the Camelles, and folowed the man: and the seruaunt toke Rebecca, and went his waye ⁶² And Isahac was commyng from the waye of the well of the lyuyng and seeyng me: for he dwelt in the South countrey ⁶³ And Isahac was gone out to pray in the fielde at the euentide, and he lift vp his eyes, and saw the Camelles commyng ⁶⁴ And Rebecca lyft vp her eyes, & when she sawe Isahac, she lyghted of the Camell ⁶⁵ (For she said vnto the seruaunt: what man is this, that commeth walkyng against vs in the fielde? And the seruaunt sayd, it is my maister): therfore she toke her vayle and couered her ⁶⁶ And the seruaunt tolde Isahac all thinges that he had done ⁶⁷ And Isahac brought her into his mother Saraes tent, and toke Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loued her: and so Isahac receaued comfort after his mother