Genesis 24:42

42 "Today I came to the spring. I said, 'Lord, you are the God of my master Abraham. Please give me success on this journey I've made.

Genesis 24:42 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 24:42

And I came this day unto the well
Hither he was come at length by several days' journey; not on the same day he came from Abraham, as the Jewish writers say F14, by means of a miracle: and said, O Lord God of my master Abraham;
being come to the well, he prayed as follows: if now thou do prosper the way which I go;
his meaning is, that if it was the pleasure of God that he should succeed in what he was come about, that he would let him know it by a token; and in ( Genesis 24:42-48 ) he relates the token he desired, which was granted him, and his success, as before recorded, from ( Genesis 24:21-27 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F14 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 95. 1. Bereshit Rabba, sect. 59. fol. 52. 2. Jarchi in loc.

Genesis 24:42 In-Context

40 "He replied, 'I have walked with the Lord. He will send his angel with you. He will give you success on your journey. So you will be able to get a wife for my son. You will get her from my own relatives and from my father's family.
41 " 'When you go to my relatives, suppose they refuse to give her to you. Then you will be free from your oath.'
42 "Today I came to the spring. I said, 'Lord, you are the God of my master Abraham. Please give me success on this journey I've made.
43 " 'I'm standing beside this spring. A young woman will come out to get water. I will speak to her. I'll say, "Please let me drink a little water from your jar."
44 Suppose she says, "Have a drink of water. And I'll get some for your camels too." Then let her be the one the LORD has chosen for my master's son.'
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