Genesis 24:14

24:14 I will say to a young woman, ‘Please lower your jar so I may drink.’ May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply, ‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’¹ In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master.”²

Genesis 24:27

24:27 saying “Praised be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love³ for my master! The Lord has led me⁴ to the house⁵ of my master’s relatives!”⁶

¹sn I will also give your camels water. It would be an enormous test for a young woman to water ten camels. The idea is that such a woman would not only be industrious but hospitable and generous.

²tn Heb “And let the young woman to whom I say, ‘Lower your jar that I may drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink and I will also give your camels water,’ – her you have appointed for your servant, for Isaac, and by it I will know that you have acted in faithfulness with my master.”

³tn Heb “his faithfulness and his commitment.”

⁴tn Heb “As for me – in the way the Lord led me.”

⁵tn Here “house” is an adverbial accusative of termination.

⁶tn Heb “brothers.”