TBESH · H9001
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
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/וַ (v) means “&” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: v STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
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Now 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.”
Read word by wordBefore 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.
Read word by wordNow 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.
Read word by wordSo the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”
Read word by word“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.
Read word by wordAfter she had given him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.”
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordAnd after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.
Read word by word“Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
Read word by wordShe replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”
Read word by wordThen she added, “We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night.”
Read word by wordThen the man bowed down and worshiped the LORD,
Read word by wordsaying, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”
Read word by wordThe girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.
Read word by wordNow Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.
Read word by wordAs soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.
Read word by word“Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” said Laban. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”
Read word by wordSo the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were brought to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of his companions.
Read word by wordThen a meal was set before the man, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I came to say.” So Laban said, “Please speak.”
Read word by word“I am Abraham’s servant,” he replied.
Read word by word“The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.
Read word by wordMy master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and my master has given him everything he owns.
Read word by wordMy master made me swear an oath and said, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell,
Read word by wordbut you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’
Read word by wordThen I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’
Read word by wordAnd he told me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.
Read word by wordAnd when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.’
Read word by wordSo when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success!
Read word by wordHere I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar,’
Read word by wordand she replies, ‘Drink, and I will draw water for your camels as well,’ may she be the woman the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.
Read word by wordAnd before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’
Read word by wordShe quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.
Read word by wordThen I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
Read word by wordThen I bowed down and worshiped the LORD; and I blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right road to take the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.
Read word by wordLaban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.
Read word by wordWhen Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.
Read word by wordThen he brought out jewels of silver and gold, and articles of clothing, and he gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.
Read word by wordThen he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way to my master.”
Read word by wordBut her brother and mother said, “Let the girl remain with us ten days or so. After that, she may go.”
Read word by wordBut he replied, “Do not delay me, since the LORD has made my journey a success. Send me on my way so that I may go to my master.”
Read word by wordSo they said, “We will call the girl and ask her opinion.”
Read word by wordThey called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” “I will go,” she replied.
Read word by wordSo they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.
Read word by wordAnd they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
Read word by wordThen Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.
Read word by wordEarly in the evening, Isaac went out to the field to meditate, and looking up, he saw the camels approaching.
Read word by wordAnd when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel
Read word by wordand asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “It is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
Read word by wordThen the servant told Isaac all that he had done.
Read word by wordAnd Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
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