The Search for Rebekah in the City of Nahor

Abraham, now old, makes his servant Eliezer swear by an oath not to take a Canaanite wife for Isaac but to go back to his homeland and find one from his own kindred. Eliezer loads ten camels with gifts and travels to Aram-naharaim, to the city of Nahor in upper Mesopotamia. At the well outside the city he prays for a very specific sign: let the young woman who offers to draw water for his camels too be the one God has chosen. Before he finishes praying, Rebekah — the granddaughter of Abraham's brother Nahor — walks up to the well and does exactly that. Eliezer goes home with her family, presents Abraham's gifts to her father Bethuel and brother Laban, and they consent. Rebekah agrees to go, and rides south to become Isaac's wife — comforting him after Sarah's death.

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