Genesis

Chapter 24

The Family of Nahor

• Gen 22:20-23• Now it came to pass after these things that it

was told Abraham, saying, "Indeed Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor: 21 Huz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel." 23 And Bethuel begot Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

• The city of Nahor is close to Haran, North-west of ‘Mesa’ (Mesopotamia), known in the Assyrian documents and those of Mari.

• Its name probably came after ‘Nahor’ the grandfather of Abraham (Gen. 11: 22- 25), or after his brother, the grandfather of Rebecca (Gen. 11: 22 -25), or after the name of the tribe as a whole.

• Nahor appears as the ancestor of a number of• Aramite tribes (Gen. 22: 20 - 24).

• Rebekah = "ensnarer"

• a daughter of Bethuel, the sister of Laban, the wife of Isaac, and the mother of Esau and Jacob

• Deut 7:1-4• "When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you go to

possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, 2 and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. 3 Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. 4 For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.

• Abraham = God the Father

• Isaac = The Bridegroom = Christ

• The Servant = The Holy Spirit

• Rebecca = The Bride = The Church and the Human Spirit

The Servant

• Obedience.

• Faith.

• Prayers.

• St. John Chrysostom says: [The Lord Christ, having made with us a (matrimonial) contract, set for me a dowry, not of money but of blood.

• This dowry is the (downpayment) of the goods: that “Eyes have not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man” (1 Corinthians 2: 9). He set the following things as my dowry:

• Eternity, the praise of Angels, salvation from death, freedom from sin, inheritance of the great Kingdom, righteousness, sanctification, salvation from present evils, discovery of future blessings ....

• How great is my dowry ! ! He came and took me, and set my dowry, saying: I am giving you My riches ... Have you lost the paradise ? I shall give it back to you

The Conditions of choosing wife

• Serving, Labor.

• Compassionate

• Humble.

• Love

• Patience

• Sacrifice.

• Wisdom.

• Matt 5:40-42

• 40 If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also. 41 And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. 42 Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.

• 2 Cor 11:2

• 2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

• That well is nothing but the waters of baptism, where the Lord Christ encounters His Church, as His bride.

• Father Caesarius, Bishop of Arles, says: [If the Church had not come to the water of Baptism, it would never have been united with Christ].

• And he also said: [Brethren, look at the servant of Isaac; he encountered Rebecca by the well; and Rebecca, in turn, had also encountered Isaac by the well (Gen. 24: 62).

• Christ would never encounter the Church; nor the• Church would never encounter Christ, except by the

secret of Baptism].

• The scholar Origen sees in the well, a reference to the Holy Book, where the soul encounters its

• Groom, saying: • [Rebecca used to go every day to the well to

draw water; and there she encountered Abraham’s servant, and got to marry Isaac ... Learn to come every day to the well of the Holy Book to draw continuously the water of the Holy Spirit].

The Presents of God

• Gen 24:52

• 52 And it came to pass, when Abraham's servant heard their words, that he worshiped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.

• Ps 45:10-11

• 0 Listen, O daughter, Consider and incline your ear; Forget your own people also, and your father's house; 11 So the King will greatly desire your beauty; Because He is your Lord, worship Him.

The 10 Camels

• The Ten Commandments.• Rebecca had served the camels• The Camels had carried her to her bridegroom.

• John 14:23-24• 23 Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me,

he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. 24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me.

• John 14:21

• 21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him."

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• How Does He Look

• Is He Rich

• Is he Kind and gentle

• Who work for him

• Will he feed me and gave me to drink

• What kind of cloth he will dress me.