of the water in thy pot for to drink.  Which said:  Drink, my lord, and lightly took the pot from her shoulder, and held it, and gave him drink.  And when he had drunk she said:  Yet I shall give to thy camels drink, and draw water for them till all have drunken; and she poured out the water into a vessel that was there for beasts to drink, and ran to the pit and drew water that every one drank his draught.  He then thought in himself secretly that God had made him to have a prosperous journey.

After they had drunk, he gave her two rings to hang on her ears weighing two shekels, and as many armlets weighing ten shekels, and asked her whose daughter she was, and if there were any room in her father’s house to be lodged.  And she answered:  I am daughter to Bethuel, Nahor’s son, and in my father’s house is place enough to lodge thee and thy camels, and plenty of chaff and hay for them.  And the man inclined down to the ground and worshipped God saying:  Blessed be the Lord God of my lord Abraham, which hath not taken away his mercy ne his truth from my lord, and hath brought me in my journey right into the house of my lord’s brother.  The maid Rebekah ran and told at home all that she had heard.  Rebekah had a brother named Laban, which hastily went out to the man where as he was when he had seen the rings in his sister’s ears and her poinettes or armlets on her hands; and had heard her say all that the man said.  He came to the man that stood by the well yet, and said to him:  Come in, thou blessed of God, why standest thou without?  I have made ready the house for thee, and have ordained place for thy camels.  And brought him in, and strawed his camels, and gave them chaff and hay, and water to wash the camels’ feet, and the men’s feet that came with him.

And they set forth bread tofore him, which said:  I shall not eat till I have done mine errand and said wherefore I am come.  And it was answered to him, say on, and he said:  I am servant of Abraham, and God hath blessed and magnified him greatly and hath given to him oxen and sheep, silver and gold, servants men and women, camels and asses.  And Sarah his wife hath brought him forth a son in her old age, and he hath given to him all that he had.  And my lord hath charged and adjured me saying:  In no wise let my son Isaac have no wife of the daughters of Canaan in whose land he dwelleth, but go unto the house of my father and of my kindred, and of them thou shall take a wife to my son, wherefore I am come hither.  And told all how he prayed God of some token, and how Rebekah did to him, and in conclusion desired to have Rebekah for his lord Isaac; and if he would not, that he might depart and go into some other place, on the right side or on the left, to seek a wife for his lord’s son.  Then Bethuel and Laban said to him:  This word is come of God, against his will we may nothing do.  Lo!  Rebekah standeth tofore thee, take her and go forth that she may be wife unto the son of thy lord, as our Lord