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with my maister. ¹⁵Neither had he yet ended these words within himselfe, & behold Rebecca came forth, the daughter of Bathuel, the sonne of Melcha wife to Nachor the brother of Abraham, hauing a tankard on her shoulder; ¹⁶a passing comely maid, & most beautiful virgin, & not knowen to man: and she was gone downe to the fountaine, and had filled her tankard, and came backe. ¹⁷And the seruant ranne to meet her, and said: Giue me a little water to drinke of thy tankard. ¹⁸Who answered: Drinke my Lord. And quickly she let downe the tankard vpon her arme, and gaue him drinke. ¹⁹And when he had drunke, she added: but for thy camels also I wil draw water, til al doe drinke. ²⁰And powring out the tankard into the troughs, she ranne backe to the wel to draw water: and being drawen gaue it to al the camels. ²¹But he musing beheld her with silence, desirous to know whether our Lord had made his iourney prosperous or not. ²²And after that the camels had drunke, the man plucked forth golden earelettes, weyghing two sicles, and as manie braceletts of tenne sicles weight. ²³And he said to her: Whose daughter art thou? shew me; is there anie place in thy fathers house to lodge? ²⁴Who answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the sonne of Melcha, whom she bare to Nachor. ²⁵And she added, saying: Of straw also and hay we haue good store, and a large place to lodge in. ²⁶The man bowed himselfe, and adored our Lord, ²⁷saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my Lord Abraham, that hath not taken away his mercie & truth from my Lord, and hath brought me the streight way into the house of my Lords brother. ²⁸The maid therfore ranne, and reported into ^[1] her mothers house al things that she had heard. ²⁹And Rebecca had a brother named Laban, who in al hast went forth to the man, where the fountaine was. ³⁰And when he had seen the earelets and bracelets in his sisters hands, and had heard al her words reporting: These words spake the man vnto me: he came to the man which stoode beside the camels, and nigh to the fountaine of water: ³¹and said to him: Come in, thou blessed of our Lord: Why standest thou without? I haue prepared the house, and a place for the camels. ³²And he brought him in into his lodging: and he vnharnessed the camels, and gaue straw and hay, and water to wash his feet, and of the men that were come with him. ³³And bread was set before him. Who said: I wil not eate til I speake my message. He answered him: Speake. ³⁴And he said: I am the seruant of Abraham: ³⁵and our Lord hath blessed my Lord wonderfully, and he is magnified: and he hath giuen him sheep, & oxen, siluer and gold, men seruants & women seruants, camels, and asses. ³⁶And Sara my Lordes wife hath borne my Lord a sonne in her old age, and he hath giuen him al things that he had. ³⁷And my Lord adiured me saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my sonne of the Chananites, in whose land I dwel: ³⁸but thou shalt goe to my fathers house, and of mine owne kindred shalt thou take a wife for my sonne: ³⁹but I answered my Lord: What if the woman

1. Her father hauing perhaps manie wiues and euerie one a seueral house, she went to her mothers house.