Abraham and Isaac

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Abraham’s son Isaac was a mature man, but he had not yet married.

Abraham did not want Isaac to marry a Canaanite woman. So he ordered his chief servant to travel to [the region of] Haran [city] where Abraham’s relatives lived, to get [from there] a wife for Isaac.

Abraham ordered his servant, “You must not take Isaac to live there, but you must bring Isaac’s wife-to-be back to Canaan, this land the Lord had promised to give to my descendants.”

So the servant led ten camels loaded with supplies and gifts and traveled to the far away city where Abraham’s relatives lived. He stopped outside the city at a [water] well where women came to get water in the late afternoon.

The servant prayed, “Lord God, when I shall say to a young woman, ‘May I have a drink?’ If she will reply, ‘Drink, and I will get water for your camels, too.’ Then I will know that she is the woman you will have chosen to be a wife for Isaac.”

Before he had finished praying, a beautiful young woman came to the well carrying a water jar on her shoulder. She filled the jar at the well and turned to go back home.

The servant ran to her and said, “Please let me drink [give me] a little water from your jar.”

The woman gave him water and then said, "I will get water for your camels, too!"

This was the very sign for which the servant had prayed. When the camels had finished drinking, …

… Abraham’s servant talked with the young woman. He learned that her name was Rebekah and that she was one of Abraham’s relatives.

Then the servant worshiped the Lord for helping him to find this woman.

Rebekah ran home and told her family [close relatives] about all what had happened.

Her brother Laban then went to the well. He invited Abraham’s servant and the men who came with him to spend the night at his house.

The servant accepted. Thus he told Laban’s whole family about Abraham. He told them how Abraham wanted a wife for Isaac from among his relatives, and how the Lord had led him [the servant] to Rebekah.

Rebekah’s father and brother answered, “It is clear that this request has come from the Lord, and Revekah is willing. So take her [Rebekah] and let her become Isaac’s wife.”

So the next day, Rebekah left with Abraham’s servant to go marry Isaac in Canaan.

So Isaac took Rebekah to be his wife, and he loved her. Thus he was comforted following his mother’s death.

After Sarah died, Abraham married Keturah and had more sons with her. Before he died, Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac. This was the right of the firstborn son.

When Abraham died at the age of 175 [years], his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave where Sarah had been buried. After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac as he had promised to do.