Abraham said to the chief servant, “Go to my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac. The LORD, the God of heaven, will send his angel before you.”

Then the servant left for the town of Nahor. He had the camels kneel down near the well; it was evening, the time the women go out to draw water.

Then he prayed, “O LORD, give me success today. See, the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water. May it be that a girl says, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels too’—let her be the one you have chosen for Isaac.”

Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out. She was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever lain with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.

The servant hurried to meet her and said, “Please give me a little water from your jar.”

“Drink, my lord,” she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink. After she had given him a drink, she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have finished drinking.” So she drew enough for all his camels. Then the man bowed down and worshiped the LORD.

The girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things. Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he hurried out to the man at the spring. Laban answered, “This is from the LORD; we can say nothing to you one way or the other. Here is Rebekah; take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, as the LORD has directed.”

So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?”

“I will go,” she said.

So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

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HAROLD COPPING
"Rebekah at the Well"

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BARTOLOMÉ ESTEBAN MURILLO
"Rebecca and Eliezer"

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BERNARDO STROZZI
"Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well"

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ROBERT GAVIN
"Rebekah at the Well"

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"Eliezer and Rebecca at the Well"

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PACECCO DE ROSA
"Rebecca at the Well"

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CARLO PELLICANI
"Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well"

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OTTAVIO VANNINI
"Rebekah and Eliezer at the Fountain"

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"Rebecca"

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MARCELLO BACCIARELLI
"Rebecca and Eleazar"

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ALEXANDRE CABANEL
"Rebecca et Eliézer"

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ANTONIO DIZIANI
"Rebecca at the Well"

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GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO
"Meeting of Rebecca and Eleazar at the Well"

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JEAN-BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT
"Rebecca at the Well"

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FRANCESCO SOLIMENA
"Rebecca and Eleazer"

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FRANZ ANTON MAULBERTSCH
"Rebecca and Eliezer"

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FRANZ SEBALD UNTERBERGER
"Rebekah and Eliezer at the Fountain"

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GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIAZZETTA
"Rebecca at the Well"

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GIOVANNI LANFRANCO
"Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well"

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CARLO MARATTA
"Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well"

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JOHANN GEORG PLATZER
"Rebekah at the Fountain"

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GIOVANNI ANTONIO PELLEGRINI
"Rebecca at the Well"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Abraham's Servant Meets Rebecca"

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ERNANI COSTANTINI
"Rebecca"

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GERBRAND VAN DEN EECKHOUT
"Isaac and Rebecca"

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Eliezer and Rebekah at the Well"

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BENJAMIN WEST
"Isaac's Servant Tying the Bracelet on Rebecca's Arm"

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NICOLÒ GRASSI
"Rebecca at the Well"

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Italian School
"Rebecca at the Well"

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BENEDETTO LUTI
"Rebecca at the Well"

Now Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev. He went out to the field one evening to meditate, and as he looked up, he saw camels approaching. Rebekah also looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?”

“He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself. Then the servant told Isaac all he had done. Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

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JAMES TISSOT
"Rebecca Meets Isaac by the Way"

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Source

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"Abraham Blesses the Wedding of Isaac and Rebecca"

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Clokey & Co.
"Isaac and Rebekah"

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son. Isaac said, “Go hunt some wild game for me, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.”

Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father. Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.”

Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob. She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins. Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.

He went to his father and said, “My father.”

Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.” Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him. “Are you really my son Esau?” he asked. “I am,” he replied.

Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.”

Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank. Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here, my son, and kiss me.”

So he went to him and kissed him. Isaac blessed him and said, “May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed.”

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MATTHIAS STOM
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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GIOACCHINO ASSERETO
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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GIOACCHINO ASSERETO
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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BARTOLOMEO ALTOMONTE
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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JAN SANDERS VAN HEMESSEN
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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GERRIT WILLEMSZ HORST
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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ABRAHAM VAN DIJCK
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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NICOLAS-GUY BRENET
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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HAN VAN MEEGEREN
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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LUCA GIORDANO
"Isaac Blesses Jacob"

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JOHANNES PIETER DE FREY
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Isaac Blesses Jacob"

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GOVERT FLINCK
"Isaac Blesses Jacob"

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GOVERT FLINCK
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"