Genesis 24:65 - Exposition

For she had said (literally, and she said; not before, but after alighting) unto the servant (of Abraham), What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us?— Isaac having obviously hastened forward to give a welcome to his bride. On learning who it was 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)— and covered herself . That married ladies did not always use the yell when traveling appears from the case of Sarah ( Genesis 20:16 ); but that brides did not discover their faces to their intended husbands until after marriage may be inferred from the case of Leah ( Genesis 29:23 , Genesis 29:25 ). Thus modestly attired, she meekly yields herself to one whom she had never before seen, in the confident persuasion that so Jehovah willed.