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Genesis 24:61

What does Genesis 24:61 mean?

A plain-English look at Genesis 24:61 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

So Rebekah and her servant-women went with the man, seated on the camels; and so the servant took Rebekah and went on his way.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And Rebekah and her young women arise, and ride on the camels, and go after the man; and the servant taketh Rebekah and goeth.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

So Rebecca and her maids, being set upon camels, followed the man: who with speed returned to his master.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And Rebecca arose, and her maids, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man. And the servant took Rebecca, and went away.

Context

v.60And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those that hate them.

v.61This passage

v.62And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the land of the South.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 31:34

    Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not.

  • Genesis 2:24

    Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  • Esther 8:10

    And he wrote in the name of king Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, riding on swift steeds that were used in the king’s service, bred of the stud:

  • Esther 8:14

    So the posts that rode upon swift steeds that were used in the king’s service went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment; and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace.

  • 1 Samuel 30:17

    And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, who rode upon camels and fled.

  • Psalms 45:10

    Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house:

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