Genesis 24:60 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”

BSB

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ASV

And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those that hate them.

KJV

And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Be thou the mother of thousands of millions - לאלפי רבבה lealphey rebabah, for thousands ten thousand, or for myriads of thousands, a large family being ever considered, in ancient times, as a proof of the peculiar blessing and favor of God. Similar addresses to a daughter, when she is going from her father’s house to live with her husband, are very common among the Hindoos; such as, “Be thou the mother of a son,” “Be thou the wife of a king,” etc. See Ward.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Note, When our relations are entering into a new condition, we ought by prayer to recommend them to the blessing and grace of God. Now that she was going to be a wife, they prayed that she might be a mother both of a numerous and of a victorious progeny.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְבָרֲכ֤וּ	vay.va.ra.Khu	and they blessed	H1288 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
רִבְקָה֙	riv.Kah	Rebekah	H7259 →
וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ	vai.Yo.me.ru	and they said	H559 →
לָ֔הּ	Lah	to <the> her
אֲחֹתֵ֕נוּ	'a.cho.Te.nu	O sister our	H269 →
אַ֥תְּ	'at	you	H859 →
הֲיִ֖י	ha.Yi	become	H1961 →
לְאַלְפֵ֣י	le.'al.Fei	<into> thousands of	H505 →
רְבָבָ֑ה	re.va.Vah	ten thousand	H7233 →
וְיִירַ֣שׁ	ve.yi.Rash	so may it take possession of	H3423 →
זַרְעֵ֔ךְ	zar.'Ekh	offspring your	H2233 →
אֵ֖ת	'et	<obj.>	H853 →
שַׁ֥עַר	Sha.'ar	[the] gate of	H8179 →
שֹׂנְאָֽיו׃	so.ne.'Av	[those who] hate it	H8130 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 28:3
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
leads to
- Genesis 35:11
  And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 48:3
  Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed me
- Genesis 22:17–18
  I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
Through
Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
leads to
- Genesis 15:5
  And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
- Jeremiah 33:22
  As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister…
- Genesis 26:4
  I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
- Genesis 13:16
  I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
- Numbers 24:17–19