Genesis 24:16
Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever been physically intimate with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.
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- Gen 26:7 : 7 When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied,“She is my sister.” He was afraid to say,“She is my wife,” for he thought to himself,“The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”
- Gen 39:6 : 6 So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; he gave no thought to anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well built and good-looking.
- Num 31:17-18 : 17 Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has been intimate with a man in bed. 18 But all the young women who have not experienced a man’s bed will be yours.
- Song 5:2 : 2 The Trials of Love: The Beloved’s Dream of Losing Her LoverThe Beloved about Her Lover: I was asleep, but my mind was dreaming. Listen! My lover is knocking at the door! The Lover to His Beloved:“Open for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one! My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
- Gen 4:1 : 1 The Story of Cain and Abel Now the man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said,“I have created a man just as the LORD did!”
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- Gen 24:10-156 verses87%
10Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. He journeyed to the region of Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor.
11He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.
12He prayed,“O LORD, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. Be faithful to my master Abraham.
13Here I am, standing by the spring, and the daughters of the people who live in the town are coming out to draw water.
14I 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.”
15Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah(Milcah was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor).
- Gen 24:42-487 verses85%
42When I came to the spring today, I prayed,‘O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if you have decided to make my journey successful, may events unfold as follows:
43Here I am, standing by the spring. When the young woman goes out to draw water, I’ll say,“Please give me a little water to drink from your jug.”
44Then she will reply to me,“Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels too.” May that woman be the one whom the LORD has chosen for my master’s son.’
45“Before I finished praying in my heart, along came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her,‘Please give me a drink.’
46She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said,‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels water.
47Then I asked her,‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied,‘The daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.’ I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
48Then I bowed down and worshiped the LORD. I praised the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right path to find the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.
- Gen 24:17-215 verses84%
17Abraham’s servant ran to meet her and said,“Please give me a sip of water from your jug.”
18“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and quickly lowering her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink.
19When she had done so, she said,“I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want.”
20She quickly emptied her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw more water until she had drawn enough for all his camels.
21Silently the man watched her with interest to determine if the LORD had made his journey successful or not.
- Gen 24:28-325 verses79%
28The young woman ran and told her mother’s household all about these things.
29(Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring.
30When he saw the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and the nose ring and heard his sister Rebekah say,“This is what the man said to me,” he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing by the camels near the spring.
31Laban said to him,“Come, you who are blessed by the LORD! Why are you standing out here when I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?”
32So Abraham’s servant went to the house and unloaded the camels. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet.
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61Then Rebekah and her female servants mounted the camels and rode away with the man. So Abraham’s servant took Rebekah and left.
- Gen 24:64-663 verses77%
64Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel
65and asked Abraham’s servant,“Who is that man walking in the field toward us?”“That is my master,” the servant replied. So she took her veil and covered herself.
66The servant told Isaac everything that had happened.
- Gen 24:23-242 verses76%
23“Whose daughter are you?” he asked.“Tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
24She said to him,“I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.
- Gen 24:57-593 verses76%
57Then they said,“We’ll call the girl and find out what she wants to do.”
58So they called Rebekah and asked her,“Do you want to go with this man?” She replied,“I want to go.”
59So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham’s servant and his men.
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51Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become the wife of your master’s son, just as the LORD has decided.”
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53Then he brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother.
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14When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
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19Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.
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10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.
- Gen 24:4-52 verses73%
4You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac.”
5The servant asked him,“What if the woman is not willing to come back with me to this land? Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”
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14So she slept beside him until morning. She woke up while it was still dark. Boaz thought,“No one must know that a woman visited the threshing floor.”
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27for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.
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4The young woman was very beautiful; she became the king’s nurse and served him, but the king was not intimate with her.
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7The LORD’s angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the wilderness– the spring that is along the road to Shur.
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37My master made me swear an oath. He said,‘You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,
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7When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied,“She is my sister.” He was afraid to say,“She is my wife,” for he thought to himself,“The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”
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8But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, you will be free from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!”