Genesis - 24:19



19 When she had done giving him drink, she said, "I will also draw for your camels, until they have done drinking."

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 24:19.

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And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
And when he had drunk, she said: I will draw water for thy camels also, till they all drink.
And when she had given him enough to drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have drunk enough.
And she finisheth giving him drink, and saith, 'Also for thy camels I draw till they have finished drinking;'
And having done so, she said, I will get water for your camels till they have had enough.
And after he drank, she added, "In fact, I will draw water for your camels also, until they all drink."
Ubi complevit potum dare ei: tune dixit, Etiam camelis tuis hauriam, donec compleverint bibere.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

I will draw water for thy camels also - Had Rebekah done no more than Eliezer had prayed for, we might have supposed that she acted not as a free agent, but was impelled to it by the absolutely controlling power of God; but as she exceeds all that was requested, we see that it sprang from her native benevolence, and sets her conduct in the most amiable point of view.

And when she had done giving him drink,.... Whatever he pleased to have:
she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking; she proposed to go back to the well, and did, and fill her pitcher, and repeat it as often as was necessary, until the camels had enough; and this now was the sign or token the servant had desired might be, by which he would know who was the person intended for the wife of his master's son; and this was granted him, which shows that it was not a rash and ill thing which he asked, but what was agreeable to the will of God, and to which he was directed by an impulse of his.

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