'Master' in the Bible
Then the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and he swore to him concerning this matter.
And he said, "O Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show loyal love to my master Abraham.
And let it be [that] the girl to whom I shall say, 'Please, offer your jar that I may drink' and [who] says, 'Drink--and I will also water your camels,' she [is the one] you have chosen for your servant, for Isaac. By her I will know that you have shown loyal love to my master."
And he said, "Blessed [be] Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld his loyal love and his faithfulness from my master. I [was] on the way [and] Yahweh led me [to] the house of my master's brother."
Now Yahweh has blessed my master exceedingly, and he has become great. He has given to him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male slaves and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.
And Sarah, the wife of my master, has borne a son to my master after her old age. And he has given to him all that he has.
And my master made me swear, saying, 'Do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I am living.
And I said to my master, 'Perhaps the woman will not {follow} me.'
Then today I came to the spring, and I said, 'O Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, {if you would please make my journey successful}, upon which I am going.
let her say to me, "Drink; I will also draw water for your camels," she [is] the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for the son of my master.'
And I knelt down and worshiped Yahweh, and I praised Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right way, to take the daughter of the brother of my master for his son.
So now, {if you are going to deal loyally and truly} with my master, tell me. And if not, tell me, so that I may turn to [the] right or to [the] left."
Here [is] Rebekah before you. Take [her] and go; let her be a wife for the son of your master as Yahweh has spoken."
And he and the men who [were] with him ate and drank, and they spent the night. And they got up in the morning, and he said, "Let me go to my master."
And he said to them, "Do not delay me. Now, Yahweh has made my journey successful. Let me go. I must go to my master."
And she said to the servant, "Who [is] this man walking around in the field to meet us?" And the servant said, "That [is] my master." And she took her veil and covered herself.
And each said to his brothers, "Look, this master of dreams is coming.
And Yahweh was with Joseph, and he became a successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian.
And his master observed that Yahweh [was] with him, and everything that [was] in his hand to do Yahweh made successful.
But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Look, my master {does not worry about} what [is] in the house, and everything he owns he has put in my hand.
Then she put his garment beside her until his master came to his house.
And when his master heard the words of his wife that she spoke to him, "{This is what your servant did to me}," {he became very angry}.
And Joseph's master took him and put him into prison, the place that the king's prisoners were confined. And he was there in prison.
Is this not that from which my master drinks? Now he himself certainly practices divination with it. You have done evil [in] what you have done.'"
So now, you yourselves did not send me here, but God put me here as father to Pharaoh and as master of all his household, and a ruler over all the land of Egypt.
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