Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing comes from the Lord; we cannot speak to you anything bad or good.
Genesis 24:59 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 So they sent away their sister Rebekah and her nurse along with Abraham’s servant and his men. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse [Deborah] and Abraham's servant and his men. American Standard Version (1901) And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men. Common English Bible So they sent off their sister Rebekah, her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, they released her and her nurse, and the servant of Abraham and his companions, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So they sent her away, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his company, |
Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing comes from the Lord; we cannot speak to you anything bad or good.
And the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold and garments and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.
Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they rose in the morning, he said, “Send me back to my master.”
And they called Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” She said, “I will.”
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “May you, our sister, become thousands of myriads; may your offspring gain possession of the gates of their foes.”
And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So it was called Allon-bacuth.
Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a wet nurse carries a nursing child, to the land that you promised on oath to their ancestors’?
As you know and as God is our witness, we never came with words of flattery or with a pretext for greed,