Verse 10
10. Ten camels A considerable caravan would be necessary for a safe and comfortable journey from Beer-sheba to Haran and back . Besides, presents for the bride and her family, (Genesis 24:53,) and suitable accommodation for bringing the bride to her husband, were to be taken along . The careful and accomplished steward, who had charge of all the goods of his master, would not fail to see that his important mission was carried out with every possible propriety.
Mesopotamia This is the Greek and Roman name of the great region lying between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, and called in Hebrew Aram-Naharaim, or Aram of the two rivers. The same region is called Padan-Aram in Genesis 25:20, and frequently elsewhere; though, perhaps, the latter term designates a more limited portion of Aram-Naharaim, in which Haran, the city of Nahor, was located . See on Genesis 11:31. To this city Nahor had probably migrated soon after his father and brother had settled there .
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