Psalm 140^[a]

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

³⁴ So he said, “I am Abraham’s servant.^{(A) 35} The Lord has blessed^(B) my master abundantly,^(C) and he has become wealthy.^(D) He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.^{(E) 36} My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age,^(F) and he has given him everything he owns.^{(G) 37} And my master made me swear an oath,^(H) and said, ‘You must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,^{(I) 38} but go to my father’s family and to my own clan, and get a wife for my son.’^(J)

³⁹ “Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’^(K)

⁴⁰ “He replied, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked faithfully,^(L) will send his angel with you^(M) and make your journey a success,^(N) so that you can get a wife for my son from my own clan and from my father’s family.^{(O) 41} You will be released from my oath if, when you go to my clan, they refuse to give her to you—then you will be released from my oath.’^(P)

⁵⁰ Laban and Bethuel^(A) answered, “This is from the Lord;^(B) we can say nothing to you one way or the other.^{(C) 51} Here is Rebekah; take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has directed.^(D)”

⁵² When Abraham’s servant heard what they said, he bowed down to the ground before the Lord.^{(E) 53} Then the servant brought out gold and silver jewelry and articles of clothing^(F) and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave costly gifts^(G) to her brother and to her mother. ⁵⁴ Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night there.

When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way^(H) to my master.”

⁵⁵ But her brother and her mother replied, “Let the young woman remain with us ten days or so;^(I) then you^[a] may go.”

⁵⁶ But he said to them, “Do not detain me, now that the Lord has granted success^(J) to my journey. Send me on my way^(K) so I may go to my master.”

⁵⁷ Then they said, “Let’s call the young woman and ask her about it.”^{(L) 58} So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?”

“I will go,”^(M) she said.

⁵⁹ So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way,^(N) along with her nurse^(O) and Abraham’s servant and his men. ⁶⁰ And they blessed^(P) Rebekah and said to her,

⁶¹ Then Rebekah and her attendants^(S) got ready and mounted the camels and went back with the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

⁶² Now Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi,^(T) for he was living in the Negev.^{(U) 63} He went out to the field one evening to meditate,^[b](V) and as he looked up,^(W) he saw camels approaching. ⁶⁴ Rebekah also looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel^{(X) 65} and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?”

“He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil^(Y) and covered herself.

⁶⁶ Then the servant told Isaac all he had done. ⁶⁷ Isaac brought her into the tent^(Z) of his mother Sarah,^(AA) and he married Rebekah.^(AB) So she became his wife, and he loved her;^(AC) and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.^(AD)

⁷ Dear friends,^(A) I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning.^(B) This old command is the message you have heard. ⁸ Yet I am writing you a new command;^(C) its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing^(D) and the true light^(E) is already shining.^(F)

⁹ Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister^[a](G) is still in the darkness.^{(H) 10} Anyone who loves their brother and sister^[b] lives in the light,^(I) and there is nothing in them to make them stumble.^{(J) 11} But anyone who hates a brother or sister^(K) is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness.^(L) They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.^(M)