Ge. 24: Rebekah meets Isaac

Abraham is an old man, so he makes his chief servant go find Isaac a wife. Abraham is really itching to get this whole "ancestors as numerous as the stars" thing going.

A promise is apparently made by one putting his hand under another's thigh.

Abraham told servant-man not to go get a wife for Isaac among the Canaanites. Probably because they did not fear God. But even more important to Abraham was that Isaac didn't leave and go live somewhere else. Who knows what would have happened, in addition to going outside of the covenant.

What's amazing is that Abraham tells his servant that God will send his angel ahead, to prepare the way. Abraham knows women are sometimes...uncontrollable. Not the right word, but...ok...women need a little extra convincing to go along with a plan sometimes. An angel was needed for Pete's sake.

The servant knows that the hotspot for all the girlie action is the local well.

He asks God for an indicator, saying, "OK, if I ask her for a drink, and she hooks me up, and then offers to water the camels, she's the one." And it happened. Rebekah, who we met in Gen. 22:23, is the first taker. Everything basically follows according to plan. God makes it pretty easy.

The servant tells Rebekah's family this story, and they, for the most part, are on board with her leaving town. They recognize that this is from the LORD., except for some reason they want her to stay ten more days.
But she's like, "Pshhhh...I'm about to go get married."

She meets Isaac and they fall in love....Wooooo!