Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing comes from the Lord; we cannot speak to you bad or good.
Genesis 24:59 - Revised Standard Version So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 bad or good.
And the servant brought forth jewelry of silver and of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.
And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they arose 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 go.”
And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, be the mother of thousands of ten thousands; and may your descendants possess the gate of those who hate them!”
And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel; so the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.
Did I conceive all this people? Did I bring them forth, that thou shouldst say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries the sucking child,’ to the land which thou didst swear to give their fathers?
For we never used either words of flattery, as you know, or a cloak for greed, as God is witness;