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.
41 Then you will be freed from my curse. If you go to my family and they refuse you, then, too, you will be free from my curse.’
42 “When I came to the spring today, I said: ‘Lord, God of my master Abraham, please make successful the journey I am on.
43 While I stand here at the spring, if I say to a young woman who comes out to draw water, ‘Please give me a little water from your jug,’
44 and she answers, ‘Drink, and I will draw water for your camels, too—then she is the woman whom the Lord has decided upon for my master’s son.’
45 “I had scarcely finished saying this to myself when Rebekah came out with a jug on her shoulder. After she went down to the spring and drew water, I said to her, ‘Please let me have a drink.’