As cold water is agreeable to a thirsting soul, so is a good message from a land far off.

And Abram and Nahor took to themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nachor's wife [was] Milcah, daughter of Haran, and he was the father of Milcah, [and] the father of Iscah.

And it came to pass before he had done speaking in his mind, that behold, Rebecca the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came forth, having a water pot on her shoulders.

And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.

And Terah lived seventy years and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

And the servant took ten camels of his master's camels, and [he took] of all the goods of his master with him, and he arose and went into Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor.

And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.

The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor judge between us; and Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.