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He said, 'God before whom I've walked faithfully will send his angel with you and he'll make things work out so that you'll bring back a wife for my son from my family, from the house of my father.
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No, go to my father's home, back to my family, and get a wife for my son there.'
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I said to my master, 'But what if the woman won't come with me?'
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He said, 'God before whom I've walked faithfully will send his angel with you and he'll make things work out so that you'll bring back a wife for my son from my family, from the house of my father.
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Then you'll be free from the oath. If you go to my family and they won't give her to you, you will also be free from the oath.'
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"Well, when I came this very day to the spring, I prayed, 'God, God of my master Abraham, make things turn out well in this task I've been given.
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