Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Genesis 24:42
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So 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!
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And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
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I came today to the spring, and said, ‘The LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—
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And I came this day unto the fountain, and said, O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
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Genesis 24
40 And 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.
41 And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.’
42 So 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!
43 Here 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,’
44 and 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.
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