Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as Yahweh has spoken.”
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Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as Yahweh has spoken.”
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Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master’s son’s wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
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Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.'
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Passages linked to Genesis 24:51 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 20:15 Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”
- Genesis 24:15 Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.
- 2 Samuel 16:10 The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, at thy commandment.
Or, at thy commandment.
Or, ordained.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 24:51 Behold, Rebekah [is] before thee, take [her],…
Gen 24:51 Behold, Rebekah [is] before thee, take [her], and go, and let her be thy master’s son’s wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
Ver. 51. As the Lord hath spoken.] For his signs also are vocal. {Exo 4:8}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Rebekah is before thee, i.e. in thy power and…
Rebekah is before thee, i.e. in thy power and disposal; as this phrase is taken, Gen 20:15, and elsewhere.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he said unto them, hinder me not,.... Do…
And he said unto them, hinder me not,.... Do not detain me, let me set forward on my journey:
seeing, the Lord hath prospered my way; succeeded him in what he came about; and by his being succeeded so well, and so soon, it seemed to be the mind of the Lord that he should hasten his journey homeward:
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send me away, that I may go to my master; and carry him the good news of his success, and attend his domestic affairs, over which he was set.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 51. take … and go] The betrothal is thus…
51. take … and go] The betrothal is thus summarily settled. The bride is not consulted!
as the Lord hath spoken] Referring to the manner in which the will Jehovah had evidently been made known. Events, not words, had been the means of revelation.
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