Genesis 24
1Abraham was
2Abraham had
3Abraham
4No
5Then
6Abraham said, “ No
7You Then Abraham said, “ I know that God will help you find a wife for my son. Yes, God will send an angel worker to my home country to get things ready for you. When you get there, you will find a woman for my son Isaac to marry.
8But
9So
10Abraham 1 Abraham’s worker met Rebekah
11Abraham’s worker stopped near that
12Abraham’s worker
13Look
14Please Then Abraham’s worker said to God, “ I will talk to one of those women, and I will say, ‘ Please give me a drink from your jar of water.’ Maybe that woman will say to me, ‘ Yes, I will give you a drink, and I’ll give your camels some water too.’ If she says that, then I will know that she is the woman you picked to be Isaac’s wife. And I will know that you have been very good to my boss Abraham, just like you promised him.”
15While
16Rebekah was Rebekah got to the water-hole, and she went down to the water and filled up her jar, and then she came back up.
17Then
18Rebekah said, “Yes, please have
19After
20Then
21While Rebekah was
22After
23Then
24Rebekah said to
25Then
26Then
27He 1 Abraham’s worker talked to Rebekah’s family
28Rebekah ran
29-30 She told them everything that Abraham’s worker said to her at the water-hole, and she showed them the gold nose ring and the gold bracelets that Abraham’s worker gave her. Rebekah’s brother Laban was there, and straight away he ran to the water-hole to find Abraham’s worker, and he found him standing there next to his camels.
30
31Then
32So
33After Laban said to him, “Yes, tell us.”
34So
35His
36And
37Then
38No
39Then
40Then
41But
42Then
43-44 Look, I am standing next to this water-hole, and the young women that live in the town, they are coming out to get water. Please show me which one you picked for Abraham’s son. I will talk to one of those women, and I will say, “Please let me drink a
44
45While
46Straight away, she
47Then
48Then
49Abraham’s worker
50Then
51Look
52Then
53After 1 Rebekah left her family and went to Canaan country
54Abraham’s worker and
55But
56Abraham’s worker said, “Please don’t make
57Then
58So Rebekah said, “Yes, I will go now.”
59So
60Then 1 “We are asking God to give you lots of kids and grand-kids, 2 so that your family will become a really big mob of people. 1 And we are asking God to make them strong, 2 so that when other people fight against your mob, your mob will win, 2 and then your mob will take the towns that belonged to those other people.”
61Then 1 Isaac met Rebekah and married her
62Abraham’s son Isaac
63Then
64Rebekah
65Then The worker said, “ He is my boss Isaac.” Rebekah didn’t want Isaac to see her face, so she got a scarf and put it over her head. You see, in that culture, that is what a woman did when she met the man that she was going to marry.
66Then
67There Some time before this, Isaac’s mother Sarah died, so Isaac was sad. But after he married Rebekah, he was happy again.