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Genesis 24:61

in Genesis 24

Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

KJV

And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

This verse in Genesis 24

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It seems, then, that when she went to the well for water it was not because she had not servants at command, but because she took a pleasure in works of humble industry. Now that she was going among strangers, it was fit she should take those with her with whom she was acquainted.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And Rebekah arose, and her damsels,.... Her maids that were given her by her parents to wait upon her, as was usual in those times and countries: and they rode upon the camels; that Abraham's servant had brought with him: and followed the man; who rode before and directed the way; the sense is only, that she went along with him: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way; took her under his care, and to be the wife of his master's son, at the hands of her friends, and then set forward on his journey.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

It seems, then, that when she went to the well for water it was not because she had not servants at command, but because she took a pleasure in works of humble industry. Now that she was going among strangers, it was fit she should take those with her with whom she was acquainted.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַתָּ֨קָםand she arose

    vatakomH6965 →628 times

  • רִבְקָ֜הRebekah

    rivkahH7259 →30 times

  • וְנַעֲרֹתֶ֗יהָand maids her

    venaaroteihaH5291 →63 times

  • וַתִּרְכַּ֙בְנָה֙and they rode

    vatirkavnahH7392 →78 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַגְּמַלִּ֔יםthe camels

    hagemalimH1581 →54 times

  • וַתֵּלַ֖כְנָהand they went

    vatelakhnahH1980 →1546 times

  • אַחֲרֵ֣יafter

    ʾachareiH310 →715 times

  • הָאִ֑ישׁthe man

    haishH376 →1663 times

  • וַיִּקַּ֥חand he took

    vaiyikachH3947 →966 times

  • הָעֶ֛בֶדthe servant

    haevedH5650 →799 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • רִבְקָ֖הRebekah

    rivkahH7259 →30 times

  • וַיֵּלַֽךְ׃and he went

    vaiyelakhH1980 →1546 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 2:24

    For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 19:3–9

      Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

    • Ephesians 5:28–31

      In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

    • Mark 10:6–12

      However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

    • Romans 7:2

      For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

    • 1 Peter 3:1–7

      Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives

  • Through

    Psalms 45:10

    Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,

    it leads to

    • Song of Solomon 2:10–13

      My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.

    • Genesis 12:1

      Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.

    • Matthew 10:37

      Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

Eliezer and Rebekah at the Well — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Eliezer and Rebekah at the Well — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.