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A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
AN ALL IMPORTANT DECISION
PART VII
"I, Eliezer, Abraham's servant, am so grateful to the Lord.... For He has answered my prayer... He sent a young woman to help me water all my camels here at the well outside the town of Nahor... I introduced myself after she had done that... She then told me about her family...And to my delight I learned that she is the granddaughter of my master's brother... She told me as well that her name is Rebekah...She then went home to tell her family of her encounter with me... In the meantime I waited at the well... It did not take too long before Rebekah's brother Laban came to see me....And he invited me to spend the night with them... How very kind of Rebekah's family... I have now gone there.... And I have settled all the animals...They are now all fed... I know that my men and I are all very tired... But I must do something first before we can have that well deserved rest."... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that Rebekah's brother goes to the well where Eliezer, Abraham's servant is waiting...
ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
AN ALL IMPORTANT DECISION
PART VII
Has the Lord prepared Rebekah's family to receive Abraham's servant who has come to Nahor all the way from Canaan? Let's read Genesis 24:28-32
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. As soon as he had seen the nose ring, and the bracelets on his sister's arms, and he had heard Rebekah tell what the man had said to her, he went out to the man and found him standing by the camels near the spring. "Come, you who are blessed by the Lord," he said. "Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels." So the man went to the house and the camels were unloaded. Straw and fodder were brought for the camels, and water for him and his men to wash their feet.
After Laban, Rebekah's brother, has heard Rebekah's story, he first of all, instructs the servants to get everything ready for their guests from Canaan. He then goes to the well outside the town and invites Abraham's servant, Eliezer, to their home. Eliezer is very grateful for the warm welcome he and his men receive at the home of Rebekah's family.
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