Genesis 24:56
Good News Translation
But he said, "Don't make us stay. The LORD has made my journey a success; let me go back to my master."

New Revised Standard Version
But he said to them, “Do not delay me, since the LORD has made my journey successful; let me go that I may go to my master.”

Contemporary English Version
But he said, "Don't make me stay any longer. The LORD has already helped me find a wife for my master's son. Now let us return."

New American Bible
But he said to them, “Do not detain me, now that the LORD has made my journey successful; let me go back to my master.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Stay me not, said he, because the Lord hath prospered my way: send me away, that I may go to my master.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Stay me not, said he, because the Lord hath prospered my way: send me away, that I may go to my master.

Hinder.

Genesis 45:9-13 Make haste, and go ye up to my father, and say to him: Thus saith thy son Joseph: God hath made me lord of the whole land of Egypt; come down to me, linger not. . . .

Proverbs 25:25 As cold water to a thirsty soul, so are good tidings from a far country.

prospered.

Joshua 1:8 Let not the book of this law depart from thy mouth: but thou shalt meditate on it day and night, that thou mayst observe and do all things that are written in it: then shalt thou direct thy way, and understand it.

Isaiah 48:15 I, even I have spoken and called him: I have brought him, and his way is made prosperous.

Context
Rebekah is Chosen
55And her brother and mother answered: Let the maid stay, at least, ten days with us, and afterwards she shall depart. 56Stay me not, said he, because the Lord hath prospered my way: send me away, that I may go to my master.57And they said: Let us call the maid, and ask her will.…
Cross References
Genesis 24:40
The Lord, said he, in whose sight I walk, will send his angel with thee, and will direct thy way: and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my own kindred, and of my father's house.

Genesis 24:54
And a banquet was made, and they ate and drank together, and lodged there. And in the morning, the servant arose, and said: Let me depart, that I may go to my master.

Genesis 24:57
And they said: Let us call the maid, and ask her will.

Genesis 30:25
And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: Send me away, that I may return into my country, and to my land.

Genesis 24:55
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