Given permission to speak, Eliezer opens with a sentence that is not small talk. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 24:35 has the servant list the blessings God has poured on Abraham — sheep, oxen, silver, gold, servants, handmaids, camels, and asses.

Count them. Eight categories of wealth. The servant is not bragging, though a listener might mistake it for that. He is building a case. If you are going to send your daughter far away to marry a man she has never met, you deserve to know that the household she is joining is real, substantial, and blessed by the God the father names.

The Targum is careful about the subject of that sentence. "The Lord hath blessed my master greatly." The wealth is not Abraham's accomplishment. It is God's gift to Abraham. The servant knows whose name to invoke.

And notice what the list does not include. No fortresses. No armies. No political titles. Abraham's blessing is counted in flocks and hands, not in walls and soldiers. The sages loved this. The covenant family's wealth is always a wealth that moves — animals that graze, servants who travel, metals that can change hands. Nothing about it is locked in place, because the covenant itself is a promise on the road.

Eliezer's boast is really a theology. Abundance, in Abraham's house, is not an end. It is a tool for the mission. And the mission, right now, is finding a wife for Isaac.