Genesis 24:14

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

May it be that when I say to a young woman, 'Please let down your jar so that I may drink,' and she says, 'Drink, and I'll water your camels too,' let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master."

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Now let it be that the young woman to whom I say, 'Please let down your pitcher that I may drink,' and she says, 'Drink, and I will give your camels a drink also'—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. And by this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master."

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    and let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast showed kindness unto my master.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Now the damsell to whome I saye stoupe doune thy pytcher and let me drynke. Yf she saye drynke and I will geue thy camels drynke also yt same is she that thou hast ordened for they servaunte Isaac: yee and therby shall I knowe that thou hast shewed mercy on my master.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Now yf there come a damsell, to whom I saye: bowe downe thy pytcher, & let me drynke, and yf she saye: drynke, and I wyll geue ye Camels drynke also: That ye same be she, whom thou hast prouyded for thy seruaunt Isaac: & that I maye knowe by ye same that thou hast shewed mercy vpon my master.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Graunt therefore that ye maide, to whom I say, Bowe downe thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drinke: if she say, Drinke, and I will giue thy camels drinke also: may be she that thou hast ordeined for thy seruant Izhak: and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed mercy on my master.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Nowe let the damsel to whom I say, stoupe downe thy pitcher I pray thee, that I may drinke: If she say also, drinke, and I wyll geue thy Camelles drinke also: let the same be she that thou hast ordeyned for thy seruaunt Isahac, and thereby shall I knowe that thou hast shewed mercy on my maister.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: [let the same be] she [that] thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink.' She will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' Let the same be she who you have appointed for your servant Isaac. Thereby will I know that you have shown kindness to my master."

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and it hath been, the young person unto whom I say, Incline, I pray thee, thy pitcher, and I drink, and she hath said, Drink, and I water also thy camels) -- her Thou hast decided for Thy servant, for Isaac; and by it I know that Thou hast done kindness with my lord.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink. And she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. Let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac. And thereby shall I know that thou hast showed kindness unto my master.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    and let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast showed kindness unto my master.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,' and she will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,'--let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    I will say to a young woman,‘Please lower your jar so I may drink.’ May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply,‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master.”

Referenced Verses

  • Judg 6:37 : 37 Look, I am placing a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If dew is only on the fleece, and the ground remains dry, then I will know that you will deliver Israel by my hand, as you have said.
  • Judg 6:17 : 17 Gideon replied, 'If I have found favor in your sight, give me a sign that it is really you speaking to me.'
  • Gen 15:8 : 8 But Abram said, "Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?"
  • Gen 24:44 : 44 and she says to me, "Drink, and I will draw water for your camels too," let her be the one the Lord has chosen for my master's son.'
  • Exod 4:1-9 : 1 Then Moses answered and said, 'What if they do not believe me or listen to me, but say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you’? 2 The LORD said to him, 'What is that in your hand?' Moses replied, 'A staff.' 3 Then He said, 'Throw it to the ground.' So Moses threw it to the ground, and it became a serpent, and he ran away from it. 4 Then the LORD said to Moses, 'Stretch out your hand and grasp its tail.' So Moses stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff again in his hand. 5 'This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.' 6 Furthermore, the LORD said to him, 'Put your hand into your cloak.' So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was diseased, like snow. 7 'Now put your hand back into your cloak,' the LORD said. So he put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored to be like the rest of his body. 8 'If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second.' 9 'But if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, then take some water from the Nile, pour it on the dry ground, and the water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.'
  • Judg 7:13-15 : 13 When Gideon arrived, he overheard a man telling his companion about a dream. He said, "Listen, I had a dream: a round loaf of barley bread tumbled into the Midianite camp, struck a tent with such force that it collapsed and fell completely flat." 14 His companion responded, "This can only mean the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian and the entire camp into his hands." 15 When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down in worship. He returned to the Israelite camp and said, "Get up! The LORD has given the Midianite camp into your hands."
  • Judg 18:5 : 5 They said to him, 'Please inquire of God so that we may know whether our journey will be successful.'
  • 1 Sam 6:7-9 : 7 Now then, prepare a new cart with two nursing cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart and take their calves away back to the barn. 8 Place the ark of the LORD on the cart and the gold objects you are returning to him as a guilt offering in a box beside it. Then send it on its way. 9 Watch to see: if it goes up along the road to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh, then it is the LORD who has brought this great disaster upon us. But if it does not, then we will know it was not his hand that struck us; it happened by chance.
  • 1 Sam 10:2-9 : 2 When you leave me today, you will meet two men near Rachel’s tomb, in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, 'The donkeys you went to find have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and is concerned about you, asking, “What shall I do about my son?”' 3 From there, you will continue on and come to the oak of Tabor. There you will encounter three men going up to God at Bethel, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine. 4 They will greet you kindly and offer you two loaves of bread, which you are to accept from their hands. 5 After that, you will come to the hill of God, where there are Philistine garrisons. As you approach the town, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, and they will be prophesying. 6 Then the Spirit of the LORD will rush upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be transformed into a different person. 7 Once these signs come to pass, do whatever your hand finds to do, for God is with you. 8 Go down ahead of me to Gilgal, and I will come to you to offer burnt offerings and sacrifices of peace offerings. You must wait seven days until I come to you and show you what you are to do. 9 As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed his heart, and all these signs came to pass that day. 10 When they arrived at Gibeah, a group of prophets came to meet him. Then the Spirit of God came mightily upon Saul, and he began to prophesy among them.
  • 1 Sam 14:8-9 : 8 Jonathan said, 'Look, we will cross over to the men and let them see us.' 9 If they say to us, 'Wait there until we come to you,' we will stay in our place and not go up to them. 10 But if they say, 'Come up to us,' we will go up, for the Lord has handed them over to us. That will be our sign.
  • 1 Sam 20:7 : 7 If he says, 'Good,' it will mean peace for your servant. But if he is very angry, know that he has determined harm.
  • 2 Sam 5:24 : 24 When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, act quickly, because that will mean the LORD has gone out ahead of you to strike the Philistine army."
  • 2 Sam 20:9 : 9 Joab said to Amasa, "How are you, my brother?" Then Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
  • 2 Kgs 20:8-9 : 8 Hezekiah asked Isaiah, "What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?" 9 Isaiah answered, "This is the sign from the LORD to you that He will do what He has promised: Shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or shall it go back ten steps?" 10 Hezekiah answered, "It is an easy thing for the shadow to move forward ten steps; rather, let it go back ten steps." 11 Then the prophet Isaiah called out to the LORD, and He made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairway of Ahaz, the steps it had descended.
  • Prov 19:14 : 14 Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
  • Isa 7:11 : 11 'Ask the Lord your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.'
  • Rom 1:10 : 10 always in my prayers, asking that if it is somehow in God's will, I may now at last succeed in coming to you.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Gen 24:40-49
    10 verses
    89%

    40He answered me, 'The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey successful, so that you can take a wife for my son from my family and my father's household.

    41'You will be released from my oath if you go to my family and they refuse to give her to you. Then you will be free from my oath.'

    42So today I came to the spring and prayed, 'Lord, God of my master Abraham, if you are making my journey successful,

    43see, I am standing beside this spring. If a young woman comes out to draw water and I say to her, "Please give me a little water from your jar to drink,"

    44and she says to me, "Drink, and I will draw water for your camels too," let her be the one the Lord has chosen for my master's son.'

    45Before I had finished speaking to myself, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, drew water, and I said to her, 'Please give me a drink.'

    46She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, 'Drink, and I will water your camels also.' So I drank, and she also watered the camels.

    47Then I asked her, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arms.

    48Then I bowed down and worshiped the Lord. I praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right path to take the daughter of my master’s kinsman for his son.

    49Now if you are willing to show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me. If not, tell me, so that I may turn to the right or to the left.

  • Gen 24:15-20
    6 verses
    86%

    15Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother.

    16The young woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.

    17The servant hurried to meet her and said, "Please give me a little water from your jar."

    18"Drink, my lord," she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink.

    19After she had given him a drink, she said, "I'll draw water for your camels too, until they have had enough to drink."

    20So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, ran back to the well to draw more water, and drew enough for all his camels.

  • Gen 24:10-13
    4 verses
    85%

    10The servant took ten camels from his master’s herds and set out, taking with him all kinds of good gifts from his master. He went to Aram Naharaim, to the city of Nahor.

    11He had the camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.

    12Then he prayed, "Lord, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show kindness to my master Abraham."

    13"See, I am standing here by the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.

  • Gen 24:51
    79%

    51Here is Rebekah; take her and go. Let her become the wife of your master's son, as the Lord has spoken.

  • Gen 24:28-32
    5 verses
    79%

    28The young woman ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

    29Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and Laban ran out to the man at the spring.

    30As soon as he saw the nose ring and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and heard Rebekah tell what the man had said to her, he went out to the man and found him standing by the camels at the spring.

    31He said, "Come, you who are blessed by the Lord! Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels."

    32So the man went into the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and fodder were given to the camels, and water was provided to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

  • Gen 24:3-5
    3 verses
    79%

    3I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living.

    4Instead, go to my country and my kindred to choose a wife for my son Isaac.

    5The servant said to him, "What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Should I then take your son back to the land you came from?"

  • Gen 24:23-24
    2 verses
    78%

    23Then he asked, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"

    24She answered him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."

  • Gen 24:57-58
    2 verses
    78%

    57Then they said, 'Let’s call the young woman and ask her about it.'

    58So they called Rebekah and asked her, 'Will you go with this man?' She replied, 'I will go.'

  • Gen 24:64-66
    3 verses
    77%

    64Rebekah also looked up, and when she saw Isaac, she got down from the camel.

    65She said to the servant, 'Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?' The servant replied, 'He is my master.' So she took her veil and covered herself.

    66Then the servant recounted to Isaac everything he had done.

  • Gen 24:61
    77%

    61Then Rebekah and her young women got up, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.

  • Gen 24:34
    77%

    34So he said, "I am Abraham’s servant.

  • Gen 24:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's household and my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land,' will send His angel before you so that you can find a wife for my son there.

    8If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. But do not take my son back there."

  • Gen 21:19
    75%

    19Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

  • Gen 24:37-38
    2 verses
    75%

    37My master made me swear an oath, saying, 'You must not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live.

    38Instead, you must go to my father's household and to my family to take a wife for my son.'

  • Gen 24:53
    75%

    53Then he brought out gold and silver jewelry and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave costly gifts to her brother and her mother.