34 “I am Abraham’s servant,” he began.
35 “The Lord has blessed my master so abundantly that he has become wealthy; he has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.
36 My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to my master in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns.
37 My master put me under oath, saying: ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I live;
38 instead, you must go to my father’s house, to my own family, to get a wife for my son.’
39 When I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’
40 he replied: ‘The Lord, in whose presence I have always walked, will send his angel with you and make your journey successful, and so you will get a wife for my son from my own family and my father’s house.