seeth.  The angel called Abraham the second time saying:  I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thine only son for me, I shall bless thee and shall multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and like the gravel that is on the seaside, thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies, and in thy seed shall be blessed all the people of the earth, for thou obeyedst to me.  Abraham then returned to his servants, and went into Beersheba and dwelled there.  Sarah lived an hundred and twenty-seven years and died in the city of Arba, which is Hebron in the land of Canaan; for whom Abraham made sorrow and wept, and bought of the children of Heth a field, and buried her worshipfully in a double spelunke.

Abraham was an old man, and God blessed him in all his things.  He said to the eldest and upperest servant in all his house:  I charge and conjure thee by the name of God of heaven and of earth that thou suffer not my son Isaac to take no wife of the daughters of Canaan amongst whom I dwell, but go into the country where my kindred is, and take of them a wife to my son.  And the servant answered:  If no woman there will come with me into this country, shall I bring thy son into that country from whence thou earnest?  Abraham said:  Beware that thou lead not my son thither.  The Lord of heaven and of earth, that took me from the house of my father and from the place of my nativity, hath said and sworn to me, saying:  To thy seed I shall give this land.  He shall send his angel tofore thee, and thou shalt take there a wife for my son.  If no woman will come with thee thou shalt not be bounden by thine oath, but in no wise lead my son thither.  His servant then swore and promised to him that he would so do.

He took ten camels of the flock of his lord, and of all his goods bare with him, and went in to Mesopotamia unto the town of Nahor.  And he made the camels to tarry without the town by a pit side at such time as the women be wont to come out for to draw water.  And there he prayed our Lord, saying:  Lord God of my lord Abraham, I beseech thee to help me this day, and do mercy unto my lord Abraham.  Lo!  I stand here nigh by the well of water, and the daughters of the dwellers of this town come hither for to draw water, therefore the maid to whom I say:  Set down thy pot that I may drink, and then she set down her pot and say:  I will give to thee drink, and to the camels, that I may understand thereby that she be the maid that thou hast ordained to thy servant Isaac, and thou showest thy mercy to my lord Abraham.  He had not fully finished these words with himself, but that Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah wife of Nahor, brother of Abraham, came out of the town, having a pot on her shoulder, which was a right fair maid, and much beauteous and unknown to the man.  She went down to the well and filled her pot with water and returned.  The servant of Abraham ran to her and said:  I pray thee to give me a little