Bible verse

Genesis 24:13

Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.

Genesis 24:13 · BSB

Genesis 24:13 in context

The verses around it, from Genesis 24.

9 So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.

10 Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.

11 As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.

12 “O LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

13 Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.

14 Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

15 Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.

16 Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.

17 So the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”

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Genesis 24:13 in other translations

KJV

Behold, I stand [here] by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:

ASV

Behold, I am standing by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water:

ERV

Behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:

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