¹¹ He had the camels kneel down near the well^(A) outside the town; it was toward evening, the time the women go out to draw water.^(B)

¹³ See, I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.^(A)

¹⁵ Before he had finished praying,^(A) Rebekah^(B) came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel^(C) son of Milkah,^(D) who was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.^(E)

¹⁶ The woman was very beautiful,^(A) a virgin;^(B) no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.

¹¹ As they were going up the hill to the town, they met some young women coming out to draw^(A) water, and they asked them, “Is the seer here?”

God’s Love and Ours

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another,^(A) for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God^(B) and knows God.^(C)