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Then he said, "Please tell me who your father is. Does he have room in his house for me and my men to spend the night?"

Then the servant bowed his head and prayed,

"I thank you, Lord God of my master Abraham! You have led me to his relatives and kept your promise to him."

Her brother Laban heard her tell what the servant had said, and he saw the ring and the bracelets she was wearing. So Laban ran out to Abraham's servant, who was standing by his camels at the well.

Abraham's servant went home with Laban, where Laban's servants unloaded his camels and gave them straw and feed. Then they brought water into the house, so Abraham's servant and his men could wash their feet.

My master answered, "I have always obeyed the Lord , and he will send his angel to help you find my son a wife from among my own relatives.

When I came to the well today, I silently prayed, "You, Lord , are the God my master Abraham worships, so please lead me to a wife for his son

Then I bowed my head and gave thanks to the God my master Abraham worships. The Lord had led me straight to my master's relatives, and I had found a wife for his son.

So they agreed to let Rebekah and an old family servant woman leave immediately with Abraham's servant and his men.

Afterwards, Rebekah and the young women who were to travel with her prepared to leave. Then they got on camels and left with Abraham's servant and his men.

Isaac took Rebekah into the tent where his mother had lived before she died, and Rebekah became his wife. He loved her and was comforted over the loss of his mother.

While Abraham was still alive, he gave gifts to the sons of Hagar and Keturah. He also sent their sons to live in the east far from his son Isaac, and when Abraham died, he left everything to Isaac.

His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him east of Hebron in Machpelah Cave that was part of the field Abraham had bought from Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite. Abraham was buried there beside his wife Sarah.

Ishmael had settled in the land east of his brothers, and his sons settled everywhere from Havilah to Shur, east of Egypt on the way to Asshur. Ishmael was one hundred thirty-seven when he died.

Rebekah still had no children. So Isaac asked the Lord to let her have a child, and the Lord answered his prayer.

and he told her: "Your two sons will become two separate nations. The younger of the two will be stronger, and the older son will be his servant."

The second baby grabbed on to his brother's heel, so they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

Esau would take the meat of wild animals to his father Isaac, and so Isaac loved him more, but Jacob was his mother's favorite son.

Jacob then gave Esau some bread and some of the bean stew, and when Esau had finished eating and drinking, he just got up and left, showing how little he thought of his rights as the first-born.

with his beautiful wife Rebekah. He was afraid that someone might kill him to get her, and so he told everyone that Rebekah was his sister.