Real WOMEN Real FAITH - Rebekah

Rebekah 
Rejecting Stereotypes -
Fearfully & Wonderfully Made

- Day 1 -

Rebekah's story - some camels, a nose-ring, a husband, oh my!

Excerpts from Genesis 24

Abraham was now very old, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.  He said to the senior servant in his household: I want you to swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac.

Then the servant left, taking with him ten of his master’s camels loaded with all kinds of good things from his master.  He set out for Aram Naharai and made his way to the town of Nahor.  It was toward evening, the time the women go out to draw water.   Then he prayed: LORD, God of my master Abraham, make me successful today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.   See, I am standing beside this spring, may it be that when I say to a young woman, ‘Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels too’—let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac.

Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder.  She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milkah, who was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor. The woman was very beautiful, a virgin. S he went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.   The servant hurried to meet her and said: Please give me a little water from your jar.   “Drink, my lord,” she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have had enough to drink.”  When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels.

Then he asked, “Whose daughter are you?   Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”   Then the man bowed down and worshiped the LORD, saying, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness to my master.  As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”

So the man went to the house.  Then food was set before him, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I have to say.”   “Then tell us,” Laban said.   Abraham’s servant told them what had happened and then asked if Rebekah could go to Abraham’s house.   Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we can say nothing to you one way or the other.  Here is Rebekah; take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, as the LORD has directed.”   When Abraham’s servant heard what they said, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.  Then the servant brought out gold and silver jewelry and articles of clothing and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave costly gifts to her brother and to her mother.  When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way to my master.”   So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?”   “I will go,” she said.

Now Isaac was living in the Negen.  He went out to the field one evening to meditate, and as he looked up, he saw camels approaching.  Rebekah also looked up and saw Isaac.  She got gown from her camel and asked the servant, "Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?"  "He is my master," the sevant answered.  So she took her veil and covered herself.  Then the servant told Isaac all he had done.  Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah.  So she became his wife, and he loved her.

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