Genesis 24:61 - Printer Friendly

ESV: Then Rebekah and her young women arose and rode on the camels and followed the man. Thus the servant took Rebekah and went his way.

NIV: Then Rebekah and her attendants got ready and mounted the camels and went back with the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

NASB: Then Rebekah got up with her female attendants, and they mounted the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.

CSB: Then Rebekah and her female servants got up, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

NLT: Then Rebekah and her servant girls mounted the camels and followed the man. So Abraham’s servant took Rebekah and went on 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.

NKJV: Then Rebekah and her maids arose, and they rode on the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.

Finally, the servant is able to depart and head back toward Canaan with Rebekah, her nurse, and her servant girls in tow on the ten camels he brought with him. God has truly given success to Abraham's urgent mission to find Isaac an appropriate wife, a mother for the next generation of his offspring (Genesis 24:3–4). This woman will bear a son to Isaac, whom they will name Jacob. Jacob will later be renamed Israel by God, as the founder of His chosen people. This makes Rebekah, in both a symbolic and literal sense, the "mother of Israel."

Genesis 24:60–67 describes how, after being blessed and sent away by her family, Rebekah journeys to the land of Canaan. Arriving in the Negeb, she is met by her future husband Isaac and given the tent of his late mother Sarah. Soon, they are married, taking their place as the next generation of God's chosen people.

Abraham asks his most trusted servant to travel to his former homeland to find a wife for his son Isaac. Swearing to do so, the servant arrives at the city of Nahor and asks the Lord to show him which young women is appointed for Isaac. Finding Rebekah, the very granddaughter of Abraham's brother Nahor, the servant reveals the reason for his journey to her family. Her father Bethuel and brother Laban agree to allow Rebekah to travel to Canaan and marry Isaac, which she does.

Genesis 24 takes place a few years after Sarah has died. Abraham becomes urgent to find Isaac a wife, not among the women of Canaan, but from his own people back in Mesopotamia. His trusted servant, sent to accomplish this mission with the help of the Lord, eventually returns with Rebekah, the granddaughter of Abraham's own brother. Isaac is married to her at the age of 40. Abraham's death is recorded in the following chapter.

The book of Genesis establishes fundamental truths about God. Among these are His role as the Creator, His holiness, His hatred of sin, His love for mankind, and His willingness to provide for our redemption. We learn not only where mankind has come from, but why the world is in its present form. The book also presents the establishment of Israel, God's chosen people. Many of the principles given in other parts of Scripture depend on the basic ideas presented here in the book of Genesis. Within the framework of the Bible, Genesis explains the bare-bones history of the universe leading up to the captivity of Israel in Egypt, setting the stage for the book of Exodus.

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