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Genesis 24:20

The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 24:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough (or gutter made of stone, with which wells were usually provided, and which were filled with water when animals required to drink), and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.

"At one point we came upon a large village of nomad Bedouins dwelling in their black tents. For the first time we encountered a shepherd playing on his reeden pipe, and followed by his flock. He was leading them to a fountain, from which a maiden was meanwhile drawing water with a rope, and pouring it into a large stone trough.

She was not so beautiful as Rebekah".

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