OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 16

Genesis 24:16

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The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.

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Genesis 24:16 in context

Genesis 24:13–19

13

Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

14

Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”

15

Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.

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The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.

17

The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”

18

She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink.

19

When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have finished drinking.”

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