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Genesis 24 Bible study: A wife for Isaac

Abraham's servant prayed at a well for a sign, and Rebekah came before he had finished speaking. He praised the LORD for his loving kindness and truth, the Bible's first use of the word truth, and said, "the LORD has led me." Rebekah said, "I will go", Isaac loved her, and he was comforted after his mother's death.

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“He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.””
Genesis 24:27 · World English Bible

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“The servant sent to find a wife for Isaac is named Eliezer.”

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What's really going on

Not from Canaan, and not back there

In the text

Abraham is old, and "The LORD had blessed Abraham in all things" (24:1). He makes his servant swear to find Isaac a wife not "of the daughters of the Canaanites" but from "my country, and to my relatives" (24:3-4). Twice he says Isaac must not go back there: "Beware that you don’t bring my son there again" (24:6) and "Only you shall not bring my son there again" (24:8). Between the two he points to God's promise, "I will give this land to your offspring", and says, "he will send his angel before you" (24:7).

Where it leads to Jesus

"To your offspring"

In the text

Genesis 24:7leads toGalatians 3:16

Abraham recalls that the LORD swore to him, "I will give this land to your offspring" (24:7), the same words as 12:7. Paul says "the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring", that "To your offspring" is singular, "as of one", and that the offspring "is Christ" (Galatians 3:16). Paul doesn't name one verse; the promise also comes in 13:15 and 17:8.

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  • "The LORD has led me"
  • "I will go"
  • Loving kindness and truth
  • The same blessing twice
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  • 5 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it

אֱמֶתemetsay e-MET

Brown-Driver-Briggs gives "firmness, faithfulness", "reliability, sureness" and "truth"; Strong's says "stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness". Its first appearance in the Bible is the servant's praise, "his loving kindness and his truth" (24:27). He uses it twice more: the LORD "had led me in the right way" (24:48; in Hebrew, "the way of emet") and "deal kindly and truly with my master" (24:49). The LORD is "abundant in loving kindness and truth" (Exodus 34:6).

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Genesis 24 Bible study questions

  1. 1The servant prayed a specific prayer before he acted. How do you bring your decisions to God?
  2. 2Rebekah said, "I will go", to a place and a husband she had never seen. What makes that kind of step hard for you?
  3. 3The servant said, "the LORD has led me on the way." Looking back, where can you see the LORD leading you?

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