ISAAC AND REBEKAH

 

 

When Rebekah knew it was Abraham’s servant, she ran and told her friends. And Laban, Rebekah’s brother, ran out to Abraham’s servant and said, “Come in, thou blessed of the Lord.”

 

So he brought him in and gave food to his camels and water to wash his feet, and set meat before him.

 

And the servant told how God had blessed Abraham and given him flocks and herds and silver and gold. And how Abraham had sent him to fetch a wife for Isaac, and how God has led him to meet Rebekah.

 

And he asked them if they would let Rebekah go. Then they answered, “The thing comes from God. Take Rebekah and go let her be thy master’s son’s wife.” And Abraham’s servant gave presents to Rebekah, and to her mother and to her brother Laban.

 

So they sent Rebekah away with her nurse and they rode upon the camels and followed Eleazer.

 

One evening Isaac went out to meditate in the field, and he looked, and the camels were coming.

 

And the servant told Isaac all that had happened. And Isaac took Rebekah and she became his wife. And he loved her.                                                          Gen. 24: 28-67