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Genesis 24:11
Genesis 24:11 is verse 11 of Genesis chapter 24, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.
King James Version
And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
World English Bible
He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
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Genesis 24:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible
9 So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.
10 Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.
11 As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.
12 “O LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
13 Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 33:13But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.
Genesis 33:14Please let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a comfortable pace for the livestock and children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”
Proverbs 12:10A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are only cruelty.
Genesis 24:13Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
Genesis 24:14Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—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.”
Genesis 24:15Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.
Genesis 24:16Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.
Genesis 24:17So the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”
Genesis 24:18“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.
Genesis 24:19After she had given him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.”
Genesis 24:20And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.
Exodus 2:16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
1 Samuel 9:11And as they were climbing the hill to the city, they met some young women coming out to draw water and asked, “Is the seer here?”
John 4:7When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”