And my master
made me swear saying: Thou shalt not take a wife to my son, among
the daughters of the Cananites in whose land I dwell. But thou
shalt go unto my father's house and to my kindred, and there take
a wife unto my son. And I said unto my master: What if the wife
will not follow me? And he said unto me: The LORD before whom I
walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy journey that
thou shalt take a wife for my son, of my kindred and of my
father's house. But and if (when thou comest unto my kindred) they
will not give thee one, then shalt thou bear no peril of mine
oath. And I came this day unto the well and said: O LORD, the God
of my master Abraham, if it be so that thou makest my journey
which I go, prosperous: behold, I stond by this well of water, and
when a virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her: give
me a little water of thy pitcher to drink, and she say again to
me: drink thou, and I will also draw water for thy camels: that
same is the wife, whom the LORD hath prepared for my master's son.
And before I had made an end of speaking in mine heart: behold
Rebecca came forth, and her pitcher on her shoulder, and she went
down unto the well and drew. And I said unto her give me drink.
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