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Genesis 24:59

New American Bible - revised edition

At this they sent off their sister Rebekah and her nurse with Abraham’s servant and his men.

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Laban and Bethuel said in reply: “This thing comes from the Lord; we can say nothing to you either for or against it.

Then he brought out objects of silver and gold and clothing and presented them to Rebekah; he also gave costly presents to her brother and mother.

After he and the men with him had eaten and drunk, they spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Allow me to return to my master.”

So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” She answered, “I will.”

They blessed Rebekah and said: “Sister, may you grow into thousands of myriads; And may your descendants gain possession of the gates of their enemies!”

Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died. She was buried under the oak below Bethel, and so it was named Allon-bacuth.

Was it I who conceived all this people? or was it I who gave them birth, that you tell me to carry them at my breast, like a nurse carrying an infant, to the land you have promised under oath to their fathers?

Nor, indeed, did we ever appear with flattering speech, as you know, or with a pretext for greed—God is witness—




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