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 One night he called his servant and said, I want you
to go to my country and my people, and bring a wife
for Isaac. God will send his angel before you." So
Eliezer took ten camels from the herd, and servants to
wait on him and them, and travelled to the place where
Abraham's brother and relatives lived.
 They got there safely, and stopped; the tired camels
kneeled down to rest outside the city by a well, just at
evening-time, the hour when all the young women came
with jars or pitchers on their shoulders or on their heads,
to draw water. Eliezer sat down by the well; he bowed
his head and prayed God to send the right one to the well
and that when he said to one, Give me a drink," that she
might give to him and to the camels too, and that she
might be the very one chosen to be Isaac's wife.
 He looked up, and a beautiful young woman had
just filled her pitcher. Let me drink," he said; she held
her pitcher and gave him what he asked. Let me draw
for your camels, too," she said; and the man watched and
wondered while she filled her pitcher again and again,
pouring the water into the trough where the camels could
bend their long necks and stoop and drink.
 Eliezer took out a heavy gold ornament for her head,
and a pair of gold bracelets for the hands that were so
useful, and asked, Whose daughter are you ? Is there
room in your father's house for us to sleep?" She told
her father's name, and then he knew she was the grand-