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I came this day to the spring, and said, 'Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go.

She will tell me, "Drink, and I will also draw for your camels." Let the same be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master's son.'

I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.

Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can't speak to you bad or good.

Behold, Rebekah is before you, take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has spoken."

It happened that when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.

He said to them, "Don't hinder me, seeing Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.

Yahweh said to her, Two nations are in your womb, Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.

Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Dwell in the land which I will tell you of.

Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."

Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."

He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.

They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."

'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.'

Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because Yahweh your God gave me success."

He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son Is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.