Chayei Sarah

(3) and I will make you [Eliezer] swear by the L-RD, the G-d of heaven and the G-d of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son [Isaac] from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell, (4) but will go to the land of my birth and get a wife for my son Isaac.”

(10) Then the servant [Eliezer] took ten of his master’s camels and set out, taking with him all the bounty of his master; and he made his way to Aram-naharaim, to the city of Nahor. (11) He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city, at evening time, the time when women come out to draw water. (12) And he said, “O L-RD, G-d of my master Abraham, grant me good fortune this day, and deal graciously with my master Abraham: (13) Here I stand by the spring as the daughters of the townsmen come out to draw water; (14) let the maiden to whom I say, ‘Please, lower your jar that I may drink,’ and who replies, ‘Drink, and I will also water your camels’—let her be the one whom You have decreed for Your servant Isaac. Thereby shall I know that You have dealt graciously with my master.”

(15) He had scarcely finished speaking, when Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel, the son of Milcah the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor, came out with her jar on her shoulder. (16) The maiden was very beautiful. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up. (17) The servant ran toward her and said, “Please, let me sip a little water from your jar.” (18) “Drink, my lord,” she said, and she quickly lowered her jar upon her hand and let him drink. (19) When she had let him drink his fill, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they finish drinking.”

And when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the flock of his uncle Laban, Jacob went up and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well, and watered the flock of his uncle Laban.

(12) Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s kinsman, that he was Rebekah’s son; and she ran and told her father.

(1)The L-RD said to Abram, “Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you. (2)I will make of you a great nation, And I will bless you; I will make your name great, And you shall be a blessing. (3)I will bless those who bless you And curse him that curses you; And all the families of the earth Shall bless themselves by you.” (4)Abram went forth as the L-RD had commanded him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

Rabbi Nehorai says: Exile yourself to a place of Torah, and do not say that it will follow after you, that your colleagues will make it yours. Do not rely on your understanding.