When Eliezer of [[Damascus]], steward of the house of Abraham, came to [[Padan-aram]] to find a wife for Isaac, he met Rebekah at a well. Rebekah brought Eliezer before Bethuel and Laban. There Eliezer told this story: he had come first to the well and asked [[God]] that the first young woman to offer him [[water]] to drink, and to water his camels, should be the one to marry Isaac. Rebekah was that woman. When Bethuel and Laban heard that story, they confessed that only God could have directed such an event, and they must not oppose it. | When Eliezer of [[Damascus]], steward of the house of Abraham, came to [[Padan-aram]] to find a wife for Isaac, he met Rebekah at a well. Rebekah brought Eliezer before Bethuel and Laban. There Eliezer told this story: he had come first to the well and asked [[God]] that the first young woman to offer him [[water]] to drink, and to water his camels, should be the one to marry Isaac. Rebekah was that woman. When Bethuel and Laban heard that story, they confessed that only God could have directed such an event, and they must not oppose it. |