and I will make you swear by יהוה, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell,
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואשביעך
409
ביהוה
28
אלהי
46
השמים
395
ואלהי
52
הארץ
296
אשר
501
לאתקח
539
אשה
306
לבני
92
מבנות
498
הכנעני
205
אשר
501
אנכי
81
יושב
318
בקרבו
310
Genesis 24:4
Gematria: 2519
כיאלארציואלמולדתיתלךולקחתאשהלבניליצחק
but will go to the land of my birth and get a wife for my son Isaac.”
And the servant said to him, “What if the woman does not consent to follow me to this land, shall I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
אליו
47
העבד
81
אולי
47
לאתאבה
439
האשה
311
ללכת
480
אחרי
219
אלהארץ
327
הזאת
413
ההשב
312
אשיב
313
אתבנך
473
אלהארץ
327
אשריצאת
1002
משם
380
Genesis 24:6
Gematria: 2797
ויאמראליואברהםהשמרלךפןתשיבאתבנישמה
Abraham answered him, “On no account must you take my son back there!
יהוה, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house and from my native land, who promised me on oath, saying, ‘I will assign this land to your offspring’—will send a messenger before you, and you will get a wife for my son from there.
Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and set out, taking with him all the bounty of his master; and he made his way to Aram-naharaim, to the city of Nahor.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויקח
124
העבד
81
עשרה
575
גמלים
123
מגמלי
123
אדניו
71
וילך
66
וכלטוב
73
אדניו
71
בידו
22
ויקם
156
וילך
66
אלארם
272
נהרים
305
אלעיר
311
נחור
264
Genesis 24:11
Gematria: 3620
ויברךהגמליםמחוץלעיראלבארהמיםלעתערבלעתצאתהשאבת
He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city, at evening time, the time when women come out to draw water.
let the maiden to whom I say, ‘Please, lower your jar that I may drink,’ and who replies, ‘Drink, and I will also water your camels’—let her be the one whom You have decreed for Your servant Isaac. Thereby shall I know that You have dealt graciously with my master.”
He had scarcely finished speaking, when Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel, the son of Milcah the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor, came out with her jar on her shoulder.
The maiden was very beautiful—[and] a virgin, no man having known her. [and] a virgin, no man having known her Or “a young woman whom no man had known.” She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up.
Word-by-Word Analysis
והנער
331
טבת
411
מראה
246
מאד
45
בתולה
443
ואיש
317
לא
31
ידעה
89
ותרד
610
העינה
140
ותמלא
477
כדה
29
ותעל
506
Genesis 24:17
Gematria: 1853
וירץהעבדלקראתהויאמרהגמיאינינאמעטמיםמכדך
The servant ran toward her and said, “Please, let me sip a little water from your jar.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
וירץ
306
העבד
81
לקראתה
736
ויאמר
257
הגמיאיני
129
נא
51
מעטמים
209
מכדך
84
Genesis 24:18
Gematria: 3643
ותאמרשתהאדניותמהרותרדכדהעלידהותשקהו
“Drink, my lord,” she said, and she quickly lowered her jar upon her hand and let him drink.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ותאמר
647
שתה
705
אדני
65
ותמהר
651
ותרד
610
כדה
29
עלידה
119
ותשקהו
817
Genesis 24:19
Gematria: 3725
ותכללהשקתוותאמרגםלגמליךאשאבעדאםכלולשתת
When she had let him drink his fill, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they finish drinking.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ותכל
456
להשקתו
841
ותאמר
647
גם
43
לגמליך
133
אשאב
304
עד
74
אםכלו
97
לשתת
1130
Genesis 24:20
Gematria: 4418
ותמהרותערכדהאלהשקתותרץעודאלהבארלשאבותשאבלכלגמליו
Quickly emptying her jar into the trough, she ran back to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ותמהר
651
ותער
676
כדה
29
אלהשקת
836
ותרץ
696
עוד
80
אלהבאר
239
לשאב
333
ותשאב
709
לכלגמליו
169
Genesis 24:21
Gematria: 2641
והאישמשתאהלהמחרישלדעתההצליחיהוהדרכואםלא
The man, ” See note at 18.2 and the Dictionary under ’ish; Agent. meanwhile, stood gazing at her, silently wondering whether יהוה had made his errand successful or not.
Translation Notes
*man Or “agent.” — Lit. “participant whose involvement defines the depicted situation.
When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold nose-ring weighing a half-shekel, half-shekel Heb. beqa‘. and two gold bands for her arms, ten shekels in weight.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויהי
31
כאשר
521
כלו
56
הגמלים
128
לשתות
1136
ויקח
124
האיש
316
נזם
97
זהב
14
בקע
172
משקלו
476
ושני
366
צמידים
194
עלידיה
129
עשרה
575
זהב
14
משקלם
510
Genesis 24:23
Gematria: 2385
ויאמרבתמיאתהגידינאליהישביתאביךמקוםלנוללין
“Pray tell me,” he said, “whose daughter are you? Is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
בתמי
452
את
401
הגידי
32
נא
51
לי
40
היש
315
ביתאביך
445
מקום
186
לנו
86
ללין
120
Genesis 24:24
Gematria: 2607
ותאמראליובתבתואלאנכיבןמלכהאשרילדהלנחור
She replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ותאמר
647
אליו
47
בתבתואל
841
אנכי
81
בןמלכה
147
אשר
501
ילדה
49
לנחור
294
Genesis 24:25
Gematria: 2132
ותאמראליוגםתבןגםמספוארבעמנוגםמקוםללון
And she went on, “There is plenty of straw straw Heb. teben, shredded straw, which in the East is mixed with feed; cf. v. 32. and feed at home, and also room to spend the night.”
and said, “Blessed be יהוה, the God of my master Abraham’s [house], who has not withheld steadfast faithfulness from my master. For I have been guided on my errand by יהוה, to the house of my master’s kin.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
ברוך
228
יהוה
26
אלהי
46
אדני
65
אברהם
248
אשר
501
לאעזב
110
חסדו
78
ואמתו
453
מעם
150
אדני
65
אנכי
81
בדרך
226
נחני
118
יהוה
26
בית
412
אחי
19
אדני
65
Genesis 24:28
Gematria: 2239
ותרץהנערותגדלביתאמהכדבריםהאלה
The maiden ran and told all this to her mother’s household.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ותרץ
696
הנער
325
ותגד
413
לבית
442
אמה
46
כדברים
276
האלה
41
Genesis 24:29
Gematria: 1801
ולרבקהאחושמולבןוירץלבןאלהאישהחוצהאלהעין
Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man at the spring—
when he saw the nose-ring and the bands on his sister’s arms, and when he heard his sister Rebekah say, “Thus the man spoke to me.” He went up to the man, who was still standing beside the camels at the spring.
So the man entered the house, and the camels were unloaded. The camels were given straw and feed, and water was brought to bathe his feet and the feet of the entourage “men.” See Dictionary under ’ish. under him.
He replied to me, ‘יהוה, whose ways I have followed, will send a messenger with you and make your errand successful; and you will get a wife for my son from my kindred, from my father’s house.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
אלי
41
יהוה
26
אשרהתהלכתי
1371
לפניו
176
ישלח
348
מלאכו
97
אתך
421
והצליח
149
דרכך
244
ולקחת
544
אשה
306
לבני
92
ממשפחתי
878
ומבית
458
אבי
13
Genesis 24:41
Gematria: 4018
אזתנקהמאלתיכיתבואאלמשפחתיואםלאיתנולךוהייתנקימאלתי
Thus only shall you be freed from my adjuration: if, when you come to my kindred, they refuse you—only then shall you be freed from my adjuration.’
“I came today to the spring, and I said: ‘O יהוה, God of my master Abraham’s [house], if You would indeed grant success to the errand on which I am engaged!
I had scarcely finished praying in my heart, when Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder, and went down to the spring and drew. And I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’
I inquired of her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ And she said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ And I put the ring on her nose and the bands on her arms.
Then I bowed low in homage to יהוה and blessed יהוה, the God of my master Abraham’s [house], who led me on the right way to get the daughter of my master’s brother for his son.
Then he and the entourage under him ate and drank, and they spent the night. When they arose next morning, he said, “Give me leave to go to my master.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאכלו
73
וישתו
722
הוא
12
והאנשים
412
אשרעמו
617
וילינו
112
ויקומו
168
בבקר
304
ויאמר
257
שלחני
398
לאדני
95
Genesis 24:55
Gematria: 3159
ויאמראחיהואמהתשבהנעראתנוימיםאועשוראחרתלך
But her brother and her mother said, “Let the maiden remain with us some ten days; ” then you may go.”
Translation Notes
*some ten days — Lit. “days or ten.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
אחיה
24
ואמה
52
תשב
702
הנער
325
אתנו
457
ימים
100
או
7
עשור
576
אחר
209
תלך
450
Genesis 24:56
Gematria: 2360
ויאמראלהםאלתאחרואתיויהוההצליחדרכישלחוניואלכהלאדני
He said to them, “Do not delay me, now that יהוה has made my errand successful. Give me leave that I may go to my master.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
אלהם
76
אלתאחרו
646
אתי
411
ויהוה
32
הצליח
143
דרכי
234
שלחוני
404
ואלכה
62
לאדני
95
Genesis 24:57
Gematria: 1852
ויאמרונקראלנערונשאלהאתפיה
And they said, “Let us call the girl and ask for her reply.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמרו
263
נקרא
351
לנער
350
ונשאלה
392
אתפיה
496
Genesis 24:58
Gematria: 2575
ויקראולרבקהויאמרואליההתלכיעםהאישהזהותאמראלך
They called Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man man See note at v. 21.?” And she said, “I will.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויקראו
323
לרבקה
337
ויאמרו
263
אליה
46
התלכי
465
עםהאיש
426
הזה
17
ותאמר
647
אלך
51
Genesis 24:59
Gematria: 4024
וישלחואתרבקהאחתםואתמנקתהואתעבדאברהםואתאנשיו
So they sent off their sister Rebekah and her nurse along with Abraham’s servant and his entourage.
And Isaac went out walking walking Meaning of Heb. lasuaḥ uncertain; others “to meditate.” in the field toward evening and, looking up, he saw camels approaching.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויצא
107
יצחק
208
לשוח
344
בשדה
311
לפנות
566
ערב
272
וישא
317
עיניו
146
וירא
217
והנה
66
גמלים
123
באים
53
Genesis 24:64
Gematria: 3510
ותשארבקהאתעיניהותראאתיצחקותפלמעלהגמל
Raising her eyes, Rebekah saw Isaac. She alighted from the camel
and said to the servant, “Who is that man walking in the field toward us?” And the servant said, “That is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ותאמר
647
אלהעבד
112
מיהאיש
366
הלזה
47
ההלך
60
בשדה
311
לקראתנו
787
ויאמר
257
העבד
81
הוא
12
אדני
65
ותקח
514
הצעיף
255
ותתכס
886
Genesis 24:66
Gematria: 2263
ויספרהעבדליצחקאתכלהדבריםאשרעשה
The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
Isaac then brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he took Rebekah as his wife. Isaac loved her, and thus found comfort after his mother’s death.