Now the angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

Behold, I am standing by the spring, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water;

behold, I am standing by the spring, and may it be that the maiden who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar”;

The girl was very beautiful, a virgin, and no man had had relations with her; and she went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.

Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran outside to the man at the spring.

When he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he went to the man; and behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

“So I came today to the spring, and said, ‘O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now You will make my journey on which I go successful;

“Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder, and went down to the spring and drew, and I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’

“Joseph is a fruitful bough,
A fruitful bough by a spring;
Its branches run over a wall.

The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.

and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased.

Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the lad a drink.

He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.

She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels also’; so I drank, and she watered the camels also.