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Isaac Marries Rebekah
Genesis 24:62–67 — Isaac Marries Rebekah. Each verse below carries the full apparatus: the Berean Standard Bible, the vocalized original (tap any word), and a parsed breakdown of every term transcribed from the interlinear. Synthesized commentary, canonical threads, and the reading of Christ gather at the end, over the whole unit.
62Now Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.
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wə·yiṣ·ḥāq bā mib·bō·w bə·’êr la·ḥay rō·’î wə·hū yō·wō·šêḇ han·ne·ḡeḇ bə·’e·reṣ
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And-Isaac had-come from-the-coming-of Beer-lahai-roi; and-he was-dwelling in-the-land of-the-Negev.
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He had been at Beer-lahai-roi, the scene of the interview of Hagar with the angel of the Lord - a spot calculated to awaken thoughts of an overruling Providence.
Hagar’s well ( Genesis 16:14 ), situated in the “south country,” that is, the Negeb (see Genesis 12:9 ). The oasis round it became Isaac’s favourite residence ( Genesis 25:11 )
The Hebrew text is probably corrupt. Literally rendered, it runs, “And Isaac came from the coming of the well”Cambridge weighs the LXX/Samaritan reading "through the wilderness" against the difficult Masoretic text; the divergence note above carries the same crux.
Isaac had just come from going to the well Lahai-Roi ( Genesis 16:14 ), as he was then living in the south country
63Early in the evening, Isaac went out to the field to meditate, and looking up, he saw the camels approaching.
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‘ā·reḇ yiṣ·ḥāq way·yê·ṣê baś·śā·ḏeh lā·śū·aḥ lip̄·nō·wṯ way·yiś·śā ‘ê·nāw way·yar wə·hin·nêh ḡə·mal·lîm bā·’îm
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And-he-went-out, Isaac, to-meditate in-the-field at-the-turning-of evening; and-he-lifted-up his-eyes and-saw, and-behold, camels coming.
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But though the verb is rare, the substantive is used in Psalm 104:34 of religious meditation; and this sense well agrees with the whole character of the calm, peaceful Isaac, already marked out as the type of the Lamb dumb before His slayers ( Genesis 22:7 ).
To meditate; to converse with God, and with himself, by pious and profitable thoughts and ejaculations, and fervent prayers, as for other things, so particularly for God’s blessing upon this great affair
A strange and poetical word to be used in this context. It has given rise to very various renderingsCambridge surveys the ancient witnesses (LXX, Aquila, Symmachus, Peshitta) and the rabbinic readings — the textual ground for the divergence note on לָשׂוּחַ.
It is probable Isaac was now praying for good success in this affair, and meditating upon that which was proper to encourage his hope in God concerning it; and now, when he sets himself, as it were, upon his watchtower, to see what God would answer him, he sees the camels coming.
This was the habit of the godly fathers to meditate on God's promises, and to pray for the accomplishment of it. The custom was that the bride was brought to her husband, her head covered, a token of humbleness and purity.The 1599 Geneva note ties the rare verb to a Reformation-era reading of patriarchal piety — meditation on the promise and prayer for its fulfilment — and reads the veil (v. 65) ahead as a token of humility and purity.
He went out to take the advantage of a silent evening, and a solitary place, for meditation and prayer; those divine exercises by which we converse with God and our own hearts.
64And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel
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riḇ·qāh wat·tiś·śā ’eṯ- ‘ê·ne·hā wat·tê·re ’eṯ- yiṣ·ḥāq wat·tip·pōl mê·‘al hag·gā·māl
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And-she-lifted-up, Rebekah, her-eyes, and-she-saw Isaac, and-she-fell from-upon the-camel.
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She lighted off. —Heb., fell: descended hastily from her camel. It is still the custom in the East for an inferior when meeting a superior to dismount, and advance on foot.
If Isaac were walking, it would have been most unmannerly for her to have continued seated; an inferior, if riding, always alights in presence of a person of rank, no exception being made for women.
she lighted off the camel; or "fell" (w) from it, not accidentally, or through surprise, but willingly, and in honour to Isaac, as was customary
Rebekah, as soon as she saw the man in the field coming to meet them, sprang (נפל signifying a hasty descent, 2 Kings 5:21 ) from the camel to receive him, according to Oriental custom, in the most respectful manner.
65and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “It is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
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wat·tō·mer ’el- hā·‘e·ḇeḏ mî- hal·lā·zeh hā·’îš baś·śā·ḏeh ha·hō·lêḵ liq·rā·ṯê·nū hū ’ă·ḏō·nî hā·‘e·ḇeḏ way·yō·mer wat·tiq·qaḥ haṣ·ṣā·‘îp̄ wat·tiṯ·kās
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And-she-said to the-servant, Who is-that-one, the-man, the-one-walking in-the-field to-meet-us? And-said the-servant, He is-my-master. And-she-took the-veil and-covered-herself.
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Brides are usually taken to the bridegroom enveloped in a vail, which covers the whole body, and is far larger than that ordinarily worn.
therefore she took a veil, and covered herself; both out of modesty, and as a token of subjection to him: for the veil was put on when the bride was introduced to the bridegroom
she took a veil - "the cloak-like veil of Arabia" (Keil), which covers not merely the face, but, "like a kind of large wrapper, nearly the whole form, rendering it impossible to recognize the person" (Kalisch)
Referring to Isaac. The expression favours the suggestion that, according to the original version of the story, Abraham’s death had been mentioned after Genesis 24:9 (see note); the servant’s master was no longer Abraham.A text-critical conjecture, not a fact of the received text — weighed in the v. 65 note above, not asserted.
66Then the servant told Isaac all that he had done.
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hā·‘e·ḇeḏ way·sap·pêr lə·yiṣ·ḥāq ’êṯ kāl- had·də·ḇā·rîm ’ă·šer ‘ā·śāh
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And-told the-servant to-Isaac [direct-object] all the-words that he-had-done.
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By what means he found out the person designed for his wife, and got knowledge of her father's house, to which he was introduced, and where he was made welcome; and what agreement he had made with the parents and relations of Rebekah to be his wife, whom he had brought with him.
The servant then related to Isaac the result of his journey; and Isaac conducted the maiden, who had been brought to him by God, into the tent of Sarah his mother
Abraham's servant, as one that chose his work before his pleasure, was for hastening home. Lingering and loitering no way become a wise and good man who is faithful to his duty.
67And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
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yiṣ·ḥāq way·ḇi·’e·hā hā·’ō·hĕ·lāh ’im·mōw śā·rāh way·yiq·qaḥ ’eṯ- riḇ·qāh wat·tə·hî- lōw lə·’iš·šāh yiṣ·ḥāq way·ye·’ĕ·hā·ḇe·hā way·yin·nā·ḥêm ’a·ḥă·rê ’im·mōw
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And-brought-her, Isaac, into-the-tent-of Sarah his-mother, and-he-took [direct-object] Rebekah, and-she-became to-him as-a-wife; and-he-loved her, and-was-comforted, Isaac, after his-mother.
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"And he loved her." This is the first mention of the social affections. It comes in probably because Isaac had not before seen his bride, and now felt his heart drawn toward her, when she was presented to his view.
Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, partly to give her possession of it, and partly to consummate the marriage. Women then had their tents apart from men.
Literally, after his mother ; the word death not being in the original, " as if the Holy Spirit would not conclude this beautiful and joyful narrative with a note of sorrow" (Wordsworth).
thus establishing her at once in the rights and honors of a wife before he had seen her features. Disappointments often take place, but when Isaac saw his wife, "he loved her."
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The chapter has been the servant's long errand; now the camera turns to the man at home. Isaac "had come from" Beer-lahai-roi — Hagar's well, "the well of the Living-One who sees me" (Gen 16:14) — and was "dwelling" (yōšêḇ) in the parched south. Barnes catches the resonance: it was "a spot calculated to awaken thoughts of an overruling Providence," the very place where God once saw the cast-out slave-woman now framing the meeting of the providence-led bride. There at the turning of evening he went out lāśûaḥ — a word so rare the versions never agreed on it. The Cambridge Bible calls it "a strange and poetical word" that "has given rise to very various renderings." Ellicott, granting "the verb is rare," appeals to the cognate noun in Psalm 104:34, "of religious meditation," and finds it fitting "the whole character of the calm, peaceful Isaac." Poole reads it as prayer — "to converse with God… particularly for God’s blessing upon this great affair." The Geneva Bible (1599) reads it as the settled piety of the patriarchs: "the habit of the godly fathers to meditate on God's promises, and to pray for the accomplishment of it." Matthew Henry hears in it the union of both — "meditation and prayer; those divine exercises by which we converse with God and our own hearts." Benson draws the picture whole: Isaac "upon his watchtower, to see what God would answer him," and at that very moment "he sees the camels coming." The man who went out to lay his marriage before God lifts his eyes to the answer.
The Hebrew mirrors the two figures: Isaac "lifted up his eyes and saw" (v. 63); Rebekah "lifted up her eyes and saw Isaac" (v. 64) — the same idiom (nāśāʼ ʻênayim) for both. Then she "fell" from the camel — wattippōl, which Ellicott renders flatly "Heb., fell: descended hastily," and Keil glosses "a hasty descent" (cf. 2 Kgs 5:21). Gill insists the fall was "not accidentally, or through surprise, but willingly, and in honour to Isaac." JFB explains the custom: "an inferior, if riding, always alights in presence of a person of rank, no exception being made for women." She points across the field with the rare demonstrative hallāzeh, "who is that one yonder?" — a word found elsewhere only of Joseph the dreamer (Gen 37:19) — and on learning "he is my master," takes haṣṣāʻîp̄, the bridal wrap-veil. The Pulpit Commentary, following Keil, describes "the cloak-like veil of Arabia… nearly the whole form, rendering it impossible to recognize the person." Gill names the double sense: "both out of modesty, and as a token of subjection to him." One small textual whisper sits here too: the servant says "my master" of Isaac, and the Cambridge Bible reads it as a trace that, in the story's older shape, Abraham had already died — a conjecture, not a fact of the received text.
The servant "recounted" (waysappêr, the intensive stem of sāp̄ar) to Isaac "all the words that he had done" — Gill fills it out: "by what means he found out the person… and what agreement he had made." The whole chapter's confession that "the LORD prospered his way" (vv. 27, 56) stands behind the deed. Then the narrative reaches its quiet climax in three verbs. Isaac "took" Rebekah — Barnes' "simple taking of a woman for a wife before all witnesses." He "loved her" (wayyeʼĕhāḇehā) — and Barnes marks the firstness of it: "This is the first mention of the social affections," the Bible's opening word for married love, a love that follows the God-given marriage rather than preceding it. And he "was comforted" (wayyinnāḥêm) — the passive: consolation came to him. Henry observes the long grief healed: "it was about three years since his mother died, and yet he was not, till now, comforted." The Hebrew ends not on "death" — that word is supplied by translators — but on "his mother"; the Pulpit Commentary, citing Wordsworth, hears the omission as design, "as if the Holy Spirit would not conclude this beautiful and joyful narrative with a note of sorrow."
Set against the rule that Scripture alone is the final authority, the passage offers a reading to be tested, not a verdict to be trusted. Providence works through ordinary means and ordinary obedience. There is no miracle in this scene — only a praying man in a field, a faithful servant's full report, a courteous dismount, a veil. Yet the whole chapter has insisted the LORD "prospered the way" (vv. 27, 56), and here the answer simply arrives while Isaac is at prayer. The God who is named in the very well — "the Living-One who sees" — is the unseen actor in a story of camels and tents. Love can be the fruit of covenant, not only its cause. The Hebrew is precise and counter-cultural: Isaac takes Rebekah as wife, and then "loved her." Scripture's first word for married love describes a love that grows from a marriage entered in the fear of God, the bride "brought to him by God" (Keil). God's comfort outlasts grief and has the last word. The narrative that could have closed on a grave ("after his mother") refuses the word "death" and ends instead on consolation given. The Berean discipline applies even here: note that "death" in v. 67 and "that man" smoothed from the pointing hallāzeh are the translators' help, not the bare text — and measure every such smoothing against what is written.
Read under the rule that Scripture alone is the final authority, this gentle scene offers a reading to be tested, not a verdict to be trusted. Providence is most at work where it is least spectacular. Isaac does nothing but pray in a field at dusk; the bride God has chosen simply comes into view. The chapter's own confession — "the LORD… prospered my way" (v. 27) — is the only explanation the text gives, and it gives it without a single miracle. The marriage is received before it is enjoyed. The Hebrew order is deliberate: Isaac took Rebekah, she became his wife, and then he loved her — the first time Scripture uses the verb "love" of husband and wife. Love here is the harvest of a covenant entered in the fear of God, not the engine that drives a man into it. God's consolation has the last word over death. A narrative that could have ended at a grave instead ends on comfort given; the very word "death" is absent from the Hebrew of v. 67, and the verb "comforted" is passive — consolation comes to Isaac, it is not manufactured by him. The Bereans' caution belongs here too: where the English supplies "death" (v. 67) or smooths the pointing demonstrative hallāzeh into a flat "that man," the help is the translators', not the bare text — measure each against what is written.
He took her, and she became his wife, and then he loved her — Scripture's first word for married love describes a love that is the fruit of covenant, not its cause.
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Isaac is found "coming from" Beer-lahai-roi (v. 62), "the well of the Living-One who sees me" — the very spot where the angel of the LORD met the fleeing Hagar and where she named God El-Roi (Gen 16:14). Isaac later settles by it after Abraham's death (Gen 25:11). The Verifier records the proper name Bᵉʼêr la-Chay Rôʼîy shared across all three verses — and it is genuinely rare, occurring in only 3 places in the whole Hebrew Bible. Barnes catches the resonance: it is "a spot calculated to awaken thoughts of an overruling Providence," the place where God once saw the outcast now framing the providence-led meeting of the bride.
Genesis 24:62 · Genesis 16:14 · Genesis 25:11
basis: rare shared lexeme H883 Bᵉʼêr la-Chay Rôʼîy (the place-name, only 3 vv in the OT) — recorded by the Verifier across Gen 24:62 ↔ Gen 16:14 / Gen 25:11. A shared rare name, not a quotation; the link is the deliberate revisiting of one named place. (The common name H3327 Yiṣḥāq also overlaps with 25:11 but carries no weight here.)
Rebekah takes "the veil" (haṣṣāʻîp̄) and "covered herself" (kāsāh) on meeting her bridegroom (v. 65). The same rare wrap-veil appears only of Tamar, who "covered herself with a veil" to be taken for someone other than herself (Gen 38:14, 19). The Verifier records the rare lexeme tsâʻîyph (only 3 occurrences, all in Genesis) plus the verb kāsāh ("to cover"). The two scenes rhyme as opposites: Rebekah veils to honour a true betrothal; Tamar veils to expose a betrothal denied her. The shared word is real; the thematic link is one of pointed contrast, not equivalence — weigh it as such.
Genesis 24:65 · Genesis 38:14 · Genesis 38:19
basis: rare shared lexeme H6809 tsâʻîyph (the bridal/wrap veil, only 3 vv, all in Genesis) — plus the verb H3680 kâçâh ("to cover," common, 149 vv) — recorded by the Verifier across Gen 24:65 ↔ Gen 38:14 / 38:19. A shared rare word, not a quotation; the connection is a pointed contrast (honest betrothal vs. disguised one), so read the thematic weight as contrast, not equivalence.
Rebekah's question "Who is that one (hallāzeh)… walking in the field to meet us?" (v. 65) uses an emphatic, almost finger-pointing demonstrative that occurs in the whole Hebrew Bible in only two verses. Its only other appearance is the brothers' sneer, "Behold, this dreamer (hallāzeh) comes" (Gen 37:19). The Verifier records the shared lexeme. The word is purely grammatical — a way of pointing at a distant figure — so the link is a shared rare idiom, not a thematic or quotational connection; it is noted for its sheer lexical rarity, with no theological freight claimed.
Genesis 24:65 · Genesis 37:19
basis: rare shared lexeme H1976 hallâzeh (the pointing demonstrative "that one yonder," only 2 vv in the entire OT) — recorded by the Verifier across Gen 24:65 ↔ Gen 37:19. The link is sheer lexical rarity of a function-word, not a thematic or quotational tie; claim nothing more than the shared idiom.
Ellicott defends "to meditate" for the rare verb lāśûaḥ (v. 63) by appeal to Psalm 104:34, where, he says, "the substantive is used… of religious meditation." Held honestly: the verb here is H7742 (śûaḥ) while the noun in Ps 104:34 is the cognate H7879 (śîaḥ) — a related root, but a different Strong's number. The Verifier accordingly finds no shared lexeme in its index for Gen 24:63 ↔ Ps 104:34 and returns "flagged — no shared original-language lexeme found." The connection is a cognate-root argument made by a commentator, not a computable verbal link, so it is flagged for verification, not asserted.
Genesis 24:63 · Psalm 104:34
basis: Verifier returns no shared Strong's lexeme for Gen 24:63 ↔ Ps 104:34: the verb here is H7742 śûaḥ, the noun Ellicott cites in Ps 104:34 is the cognate H7879 śîaḥ — a related root, a different lexeme. The tie is a commentator's cognate-root argument, not a computable verbal link; flagged, not asserted.
Isaac "took (lāqach) Rebekah, and she became his wife" (v. 67). Barnes calls this "a description of the primeval marriage… a simple taking of a woman for a wife before all witnesses." The same verb-of-taking frames the marriages of Jacob (Gen 29:23, where Leah is veiled, as Rebekah was) and the betrothal-formula of Ruth 4:13 ("Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife"). The Verifier records the shared verb lāqach, but it is among the commonest verbs in Scripture (909 verses), so the link is a recurring marriage-pattern, not a rare quotation — tiered structural, never verbal.
Genesis 24:67 · Genesis 29:23 · Ruth 4:13
basis: shared lexeme H3947 lâqach ("to take"), recorded by the Verifier for Gen 24:67 ↔ Gen 29:23 — but lâqach is extremely common (909 vv), so the basis is a repeated marriage-formula ("he took her, and she became his wife"; cf. Ruth 4:13), not a rare-word quotation. Tiered structural, not verbal.
Isaac "was comforted" (wayyinnāḥêm, Niphal of nāḥam) after his mother Sarah (v. 67); the chapter quietly closes the grief of her death recorded in Gen 23:2. The Verifier links the two passages by the proper name Sârâh (32 vv) — a structural, narrative tie binding the burial of the matriarch to the consolation of her son. The same verb of consolation, nāḥam, becomes one of Scripture's deep wells of grace — "Comfort, comfort my people" (Isa 40:1) — though that wider link is thematic, on a common root, and is named here only as resonance, not a verbal claim.
Genesis 24:67 · Genesis 23:2
basis: shared lexeme H8283 Sârâh (the name, 32 vv), recorded by the Verifier for Gen 24:67 ↔ Gen 23:2 — a narrative tie between Sarah's death/burial and her son's consolation. The wider nâcham → Isaiah 40:1 "comfort" resonance is on a common root and is named as thematic resonance only, not a verbal claim.
AI-generated reading; weigh it against the text.
Read in the long light of the whole canon, this chapter has been heard since the early church as a figure of the gospel's own pattern: a father (Abraham) sends his trusted servant into a far country to seek out a bride for the beloved son (Isaac), and brings her home across a wilderness to a love prepared for her. The shape rhymes with the Father who sends the Spirit to call out and bring home a bride for His Son — the Church "prepared as a bride adorned for her husband" (Rev 21:2; Eph 5:25–27; 2 Cor 11:2). Isaac, the only son once laid on the altar and received back "as a figure" (Heb 11:19), now receives a bride: the risen Son receives His people. Offered as a reading to be weighed, not asserted — the typology is figural, drawn by analogy with the wider canon, not from a verbal link in the text.
Genesis 24:67 · Ephesians 5:25-27 · Revelation 21:2
The Hebrew of v. 67 is exact: Isaac took Rebekah as wife, and then "loved her" (wayyeʼĕhāḇehā) — Scripture's first use of the verb "love" between husband and wife. The pattern presses toward the gospel's word for Christ and the Church: "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it" (Eph 5:25). The bride was "brought to him by God" (Keil) and then cherished — as the Father gives a people to the Son (John 6:37; 17:6) whom the Son then loves "unto the end" (John 13:1). The marriage entered in the fear of God, with love as its fruit, is fit, as Barnes saw, "to be the emblem of the humble, confiding, affectionate union between the Lord and his people."
Genesis 24:67 · John 13:1 · Ephesians 5:25
The unit opens at the well "of the Living-One who sees me" (v. 62; Gen 16:14) and closes with a mourner "comforted" (nāḥam, v. 67). Both notes find their fullness in Christ. He is the One who, like El-Roi, sees in the desert — "I have seen the affliction of my people" (Acts 7:34; cf. John 1:48, where He sees Nathanael unseen) — and He is the promised Comforter of the broken-hearted: "to comfort all that mourn" (Isa 61:2, claimed by Jesus in Luke 4:18–21), "Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted" (Matt 5:4). The small Old-Covenant scene — a man's three-year grief finally consoled by a gift from God's hand — is a quiet icon of the Comfort that came in the flesh. This connection is thematic and figural, offered to be tested against the text, not asserted as a verbal link.
Genesis 24:62 · Genesis 24:67 · Matthew 5:4
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Honesty notes specific to this unit: (1) v. 62 is a genuine text-critical crux. The Masoretic mibbôʼ bəʼêr… renders woodenly "from the coming of the well"; the Cambridge Bible judges "the Hebrew text is probably corrupt," the LXX and Samaritan read "through the wilderness," and conjectural emendations abound. The smooth BSB "had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi" hides this; the divergence note flags it. (2) v. 63's verb lāśûaḥ is irreducibly uncertain — the ancient versions split between "muse," "converse," "walk," "pray," and "lament"; we left the range open and did not pretend to a settled gloss. (3) The Ps 104:34 link is flagged, not asserted. Ellicott's "meditate" rests on a cognate noun (H7879 śîaḥ), a different Strong's number from the verb here (H7742 śûaḥ); the Verifier finds no shared lexeme and we tiered the thread "flagged — verify source." (4) The three verbal threads we tier "verbal" all rest on genuinely rare shared lexemes: the place-name Beer-lahai-roi (3×), the bridal-veil tsâʻîyph (3×, all in Genesis), and the demonstrative hallâzeh (only 2× in the whole OT). The marriage-formula thread (v. 67 ↔ Gen 29:23 / Ruth 4:13) and the comfort thread (v. 67 ↔ Gen 23:2) rest on common lexemes (lāqach, the name Sârâh) and so are tiered structural, never "verbal." (5) v. 65's "my master" and v. 67's "after his mother" both carry conjectures (Cambridge's view that Abraham had already died; the text's omission of the word "death"); these are noted as conjecture and observation, not asserted as fact. (6) The Christ readings are figural/typological — the bride-seeking-servant pattern and the seeing/comforting God — and cannot be verbal Strong's links; two are marked ancient/widely-held and one (the seeing-and-comforting icon) is marked novel and offered to be tested. Two marks govern everything: ✦ = a named, public-domain human source; ⚙ = machine synthesis, to be verified. "Search the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so." (Acts 17:11)
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