domingo, 19 de junho de 2016

Genesis 24 Abraham sends his servant to seek a wife for Isaac

Genesis 24
Abraham sends his servant to seek a wife for Isaac
1 And Abraham was old, advanced in age, and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
2 And Abraham said to his servant, the eldest of the house, who ruled over all that he had, Put thy hand under my thigh,
3 For I will make you swear by the Lord God of heaven, God of earth, that thou shalt not take wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell.
4 But you shall go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
5 And he said to his servant: Will he not follow me to this woman to land. I will therefore make your son to the land from where you came?
6 And Abraham said to him, Beware that thou thither again my son.
7 The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land: he will send his angel before thy face, and you shall take from there a wife for my son.
8 If the woman but not willing to follow thee, thou shalt be clear from this my oath; only not thither again mru son.
9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master and departed, for the whole farm his master was in his hand, and arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the citizens of Nahor,
11 And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water in the afternoon to the time that women go out to draw water.
12 And said, O LORD God of my master Abraham! give me good speed this day, and do charitable to my master Abraham!
13 Behold, I am standing next to the water fountain, and the daughters of the men of the city come out to take water;
14 Be it that the damsel to whom I say, Let down your pitcher that I may drink, and she shall say, Drink, and I will give to drink to your camels; this is who appointed for your servant Isaac, and I know you did it beneficence to my master.

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