Genesis 24:42

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And I came today to the water-spring, and I said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if it is your purpose to give a good outcome to my journey,

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  • Neh 1:11 : 11 O Lord, let your ear take note of the prayer of your servant, and of the prayers of your servants, who take delight in worshipping your name: give help, O Lord, to your servant this day, and let him have mercy in the eyes of this man. (Now I was the king's wine-servant.)
  • Ps 37:5 : 5 Put your life in the hands of the Lord; have faith in him and he will do it.
  • Ps 90:17 : 17 Let the pleasure of the Lord our God be on us: O Lord, give strength to the work of our hands.
  • Acts 10:7-8 : 7 And when the angel who said these words to him had gone away, he sent for two of his house-servants, and a God-fearing man of the army, one of those who were waiting on him at all times; 8 And having given them an account of everything, he sent them to Joppa.
  • Acts 10:22 : 22 And they said, Cornelius, a captain, an upright and God-fearing man, respected by all the nation of the Jews, had word from God by an angel to send for you to his house, and to give hearing to your words.
  • Rom 1:10 : 10 And that I am ever making prayers that God will give me a good journey to you.
  • Gen 24:12-14 : 12 And he said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, let me do well in what I have undertaken this day, and give your mercy to my master Abraham. 13 See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water: 14 Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.
  • Gen 24:31 : 31 And he said to him, Come in, you on whom is the blessing of the Lord; why are you waiting outside? for I have made the house ready for you, and a place for the camels.
  • Gen 39:3 : 3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him, making everything he did go well.
  • Ezra 8:21 : 21 Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.

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  • Gen 24:11-21
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    11 And he made the camels take their rest outside the town by the water-spring in the evening, at the time when the women came to get water.

    12 And he said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, let me do well in what I have undertaken this day, and give your mercy to my master Abraham.

    13 See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water:

    14 Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.

    15 And even before his words were ended, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water-vessel on her arm.

    16 She was a very beautiful girl, a virgin, who had never been touched by a man: and she went down to the spring to get water in her vessel.

    17 And the servant came running to her and said, Give me a little water from your vessel.

    18 And she said, Take a drink, my lord: and quickly letting down her vessel onto her hand, she gave him a drink.

    19 And having done so, she said, I will get water for your camels till they have had enough.

    20 And after putting the water from her vessel into the animals' drinking-place, she went quickly back to the spring and got water for all the camels.

    21 And the man, looking at her, said nothing, waiting to see if the Lord had given his journey a good outcome.

  • Gen 24:43-46
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    43 Let it come about that, while I am waiting here by the water-spring, if a girl comes to get water and I say to her, Give me a little water from your vessel, and she says,

    44 Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels; let her be the woman marked out by the Lord for my master's son.

    45 And even while I was saying this to myself, Rebekah came out with her vessel on her arm; and she went down to the spring to get water; and I said to her, Give me a drink.

    46 And straight away she took down her vessel from her arm, and said, Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels.

  • Gen 24:48-49
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    48 And with bent head I gave worship and praise to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, by whom I had been guided in the right way, to get the daughter of my master's brother for his son.

    49 And now, say if you will do what is good and right for my master or not, in order that it may be clear to me what I have to do.

  • Gen 24:37-41
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    37 And my master made me take an oath, saying, Do not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;

    38 But go to my father's house and to my relations for a wife for my son.

    39 And I said to my master, What if the woman will not come with me?

    40 And he said, The Lord, whom I have ever kept before me, will send his angel with you, who will make it possible for you to get a wife for my son from my relations and my father's house;

    41 And you will be free from your oath to me when you come to my people; and if they will not give her to you, you will be free from your oath.

  • Gen 24:27-28
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    27 And said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has given a sign that he is good and true to my master, by guiding me straight to the house of my master's family.

    28 So the girl went running and took the news of these things to her mother's house

  • Gen 18:3
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    3 And said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your servant:

  • Gen 24:34-35
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    34 And he said, I am Abraham's servant.

    35 The Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has become great: he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and men-servants and women-servants and camels and asses.

  • Gen 24:4-5
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    4 But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.

    5 And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came?

  • Gen 24:56-58
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    56 And he said, Do not keep me; the Lord has given a good outcome to my journey; let me now go back to my master.

    57 And they said, We will send for the girl, and let her make the decision.

    58 And they sent for Rebekah and said to her, Are you ready to go with this man? And she said, I am ready.

  • Gen 24:7-8
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    75%

    7 The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.

    8 And if the woman will not come with you, then you are free from this oath; only do not take my son back there.

  • Gen 24:30-32
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    30 And when he saw the nose-ring and the ornaments on his sister's hands, and when she gave him word of what the man had said to her, then he went out to the man who was waiting with the camels by the water-spring.

    31 And he said to him, Come in, you on whom is the blessing of the Lord; why are you waiting outside? for I have made the house ready for you, and a place for the camels.

    32 Then the man came into the house, and Laban took their cords off the camels and gave them dry grass and food, and he gave to him and the men who were with him water for washing their feet.

  • Gen 24:62
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    62 Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.

  • Gen 24:51-52
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    51 See, here is Rebekah: take her and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as the Lord has said.

    52 And at these words, Abraham's servant went down on his face and gave praise to the Lord.

  • Gen 26:32
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    32 And that day Isaac's servants came to him and gave him word of the water-hole which they had made, and said to him, We have come to water.

  • Gen 24:23
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    23 And said to her, Whose daughter are you? is there room in your father's house for us?

  • Gen 24:66
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    66 Then the servant gave Isaac the story of all he had done.

  • Gen 24:54
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    54 Then he and the men who were with him had food and drink, and took their rest there that night; and in the morning he got up, and said, Let me now go back to my master.

  • Gen 26:24
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    24 That night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham: have no fear for I am with you, blessing you, and your seed will be increased because of my servant Abraham.

  • Gen 24:2
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    2 And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg: