7The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.
8And if the woman will not come with you, then you are free from this oath; only do not take my son back there.
9And the servant put his hand under Abraham's leg, and gave him his oath about this thing.
10And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.
11And he made the camels take their rest outside the town by the water-spring in the evening, at the time when the women came to get water.
12And he said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, let me do well in what I have undertaken this day, and give your mercy to my master Abraham.
13See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water:
