Genesis 24:14
Good News Translation
I will say to one of them, 'Please, lower your jar and let me have a drink.' If she says, 'Drink, and I will also bring water for your camels,' may she be the one that you have chosen for your servant Isaac. If this happens, I will know that you have kept your promise to my master."

New Revised Standard Version
Let the girl to whom I shall say, ‘Please offer your jar that I may drink,’ and who shall say, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels’—let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master.”

Contemporary English Version
and I'll ask one of them for a drink. If she gives me a drink and then offers to get some water for my camels, I'll know she is the one you have chosen and that you have kept your promise to my master.

New American Bible
if I say to a young woman, ‘Please lower your jug, that I may drink,’ and she answers, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels, too,’ then she is the one whom you have decided upon for your servant Isaac. In this way I will know that you have dealt graciously with my master.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now, therefore, the maid to whom I shall say: Let down thy pitcher that I may drink: and she shall answer, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let it be the same whom thou hast provided for thy servant Isaac: and by this, I shall understand that thou hast shewn kindness to my master.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now, therefore, the maid to whom I shall say: Let down thy pitcher that I may drink: and she shall answer, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let it be the same whom thou hast provided for thy servant Isaac: and by this, I shall understand that thou hast shewn kindness to my master.

And let.

Judges 6:17,37 And he said: If I have found grace before thee, give me a sign that it is thou that speakest to me: . . .

1 Samuel 14:9 If they shall speak thus to us: Stay till we come to you: let us stand still in our place, and not go up to them.

she that.

Genesis 24:44 And shall say to me: Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman, whom the Lord hath prepared for my master's son.

Proverbs 19:14 House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.

thereby.

Genesis 15:8 But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?

Exodus 4:1-9 Moses answered, and said: They will not believe me, nor hear my voice, but they will say: The Lord hath not appeared to thee. . . .

Judges 6:17,37 And he said: If I have found grace before thee, give me a sign that it is thou that speakest to me: . . .

Judges 7:13-15 And when Gedeon was come, one told his neighbour a dream: and in this manner related what he had seen: I dreamt a dream, and it seemed to me as if a hearth cake of barley bread rolled and came down into the camp of Madian: and when it was come to a tent, it struck it, and beat it down flat to the ground. . . .

Judges 18:5 Then they desired him to consult the Lord, that they might know whether their journey should be prosperous, and the thing should have effect.

1 Samuel 6:7-9 Now, therefore, take and make a new cart: and two kine that have calved, on which there hath come no yoke, tie to the cart, and shut up their calves at home. . . .

1 Samuel 10:2-10 When thou shalt depart from me this day, thou shalt find two men by the sepulchre of Rachel in the borders of Benjamin to the south, and they shall say to thee: The asses are found which thou wentest to seek: and thy father, thinking no more of the asses, is concerned for you, and saith: What shall I do for my son? . . .

1 Samuel 14:8,10 And Jonathan said: Behold we will go over to these men. And when we shall be seen by them, . . .

1 Samuel 20:7 If he shall say: It is well: thy servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, know that his malice is come to its height.

2 Samuel 5:24 And when thou shalt hear the sound of one going in the tops of the pear trees, then shalt thou join battle: for then will the Lord go out before thy face to strike the army of the Philistines.

2 Samuel 20:9 And Joab said to Amasa: God save thee, my brother. And he took Amasa by the chin with his right hand to kiss him.

2 Kings 20:8-11 And Ezechias had said to Isaias: What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord the third day? . . .

Isaiah 7:11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God, either unto the depth of hell, or unto the height above.

Romans 1:10 Always in my prayers making request, if by any means now at length I may have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you.

Context
A Wife for Isaac
13Behold, I stand nigh the spring of water, and the daughters of the inhabitants of this city will come out to draw water: 14Now, therefore, the maid to whom I shall say: Let down thy pitcher that I may drink: and she shall answer, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let it be the same whom thou hast provided for thy servant Isaac: and by this, I shall understand that thou hast shewn kindness to my master.
Cross References
Genesis 24:13
Behold, I stand nigh the spring of water, and the daughters of the inhabitants of this city will come out to draw water:

Genesis 24:15
He had not yet ended these words within himself, and behold Rebecca came out, the daughter of Bathuel, son of Melcha, wife to Nachor the brother of Abraham, having a pitcher on her shoulder:

Genesis 24:18
And she answered: Drink, my lord. And quickly she let down the pitcher upon her arm, and gave him drink.

Genesis 24:19
And when he had drunk, she said: I will draw water for thy camels also, till they all drink.

Genesis 24:43
Behold, I stand by the well of water, and the virgin, that shall come out to draw water, who shall hear me say: Give me a little water to drink of thy pitcher:

1 Samuel 14:10
But if they shall say: Come up to us: let us go up, because the Lord hath delivered them into our hands, this shall be a sign unto us.

Genesis 24:13
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