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Genesis 24:50-52 - Exposition

Then Laban and Bethuel ( vide on Genesis 24:29 ) answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the Lord : —Jehovah ( vide on Genesis 24:31 )— we cannot speak unto thee bad or good i . e . they could not demur to a proposal so clearly indicated by Divine providence; a proof of the underlying piety of those descendants of Nahor. Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, —that the consent of the maiden is not asked was not owing to the fact that, according to ancient custom, Oriental women were at the absolute disposal, in respect of marriage, of their parents and elder brothers (Bush), but to the circumstance that already it had been tacitly given by her acceptance of the bridal presents (Kalisch), or, from her amiable and pious disposition, might be taken for granted, since she, no more than they, would resist the clearly-revealed will of Jehovah (Lange, Wordsworth)— and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the Lord hath spoken. Words which again kindled the flame of reverential piety in the old man's heart, so that he worshipped the Lord, bowing himself to the earth —literally, he prostrated himself to the earth to Jehovah (cf. Genesis 24:26 ).

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