So we have presented to the Lord an offering of the gold articles each man found #– #armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces #– #to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.’
Both men and women came; all who had willing hearts brought brooches, earrings, rings, necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewellery #– #everyone who presented a presentation offering of gold to the Lord.
‘What should I give you? ’ he asked. She answered, ‘Your signet ring, your cord, and the staff in your hand.’ So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
As soon as he had seen the ring and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and when he had heard his sister Rebekah’s words #– #‘The man said this to me! ’ #– #he went to the man. He was standing there by the camels at the spring.
As she was being brought out, she sent her father-in-law this message: ‘I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.’ And she added, ‘Examine them. Whose signet ring, cord, and staff are these? ’
