Genesis 24:42

WEB

I came this day to the spring, and said, 'The Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go-

KJV

And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:

Commentary

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 (n), 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 Gen 24:42 he relates the token he desired, which was granted him, and his success, as before recorded, from Gen 24:21 . (n) T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 95. 1. Bereshit Rabba, sect. 59. fol. 52. 2. Jarchi in loc.