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| WHO is this man that walketh in the field, | |
| O Eleazer, steward to my lord? | |
| And Eleazer answered her and said, | |
| Daughter of Bethuel, it is other none | |
| But my lord Isaac, son unto my lord, | 5 |
| Who as his wont is, walketh in the field, | |
| In the hour of evening meditating there. | |
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| Therefore Rebekah hasted where she sat, | |
| And from her camel ’lighting to the earth, | |
| Sought for a veil and put it on her face. | 10 |
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| But Isaac also, walking in the field, | |
| Saw from afar a company that came, | |
| Camels, and a seat as where a woman sat; | |
| Wherefore he came and met them on the way. | |
| Whom, when Rebekah saw, she came before | 15 |
| Saying, Behold the handmaiden of my lord, | |
| Who, for my lord’s sake travel from my land. | |
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| But he said, O thou blessed of our God, | |
| Come, for the tent is eager for thy face. | |
| Shall not thy husband be unto thee more than | 20 |
| Hundreds of kinsmen living in thy land? | |
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| And Eleazer answered: Thus and thus, | |
| Even according as thy father bade, | |
| Did we; and thus and thus it came to pass: | |
| Lo! is not this Rebekah, Bethuel’s child? | 25 |
| And as he ended, Isaac spoke and said, | |
| Surely my heart went with you on the way | |
| When with the beasts ye came unto the place. | |
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| Truly, O child of Nahor, I was there | |
| When to my mother and my mother’s son | 30 |
| Thou madest answer, saying, I will go. | |
| And Isaac brought her to her mother’s tent. | |
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