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 then ($61b$) took Rebekah and went further; and ($62a$) came to Laḥairoi.—Gu. (operating with two sources) considers $62$ the immediate sequel to $61a$ in the document where Abrahams death preceded the servant's departure, so that nothing remained to be chronicled but Isaac's removal to Laḥairoi (reads, 'to the entrance of'). This solution is attractive, and could perhaps be carried through independently of his division of sources. For even if the death followed the departure, it might very well have been recorded in the early part of the ch. (after $10$).

63. ] a word of uncertain meaning, possibly to roam (v.i.).—toward the approach of evening] (Dt. 23$12$), when the Oriental walks abroad (cf. 3$8$).—camels were coming] In the distance he cannot discern them as his own.—64. At the sight of a stranger Rebekah dismounts ( as 2 Ki. 5$21$), a mark of respect still observed in the East (LB, i. 762; Seetzen, Reisen, iii. 190); cf. Jos. 15$18$, 1 Sa. 25$23$.—65. It is my master] Apparently the servant is aware, before meeting Isaac, that Abraham is dead.—The putting on of the veil (cf. nubere viro), the survival of a primitive marriage taboo, is part of the wedding ceremony (see Lane, ME$5$, i. 217 f.).—67. brought her into the tent] The next phrase violates a fundamental rule of syntax, and must be deleted as a gloss. Isaac's own tent is referred to. This is the essential feature of the marriage ceremony in the East (see Benz. Arch.$2$ 108 f.).—comforted himself after [the death of] his mother] It is conjectured (We. al.) that the real reading was 'his father,' whose death had recently taken place. The change would

(Lag. Procksch); to substitute [] ('from Beersheba to': Ba.).—] G (here and 25$11$), omitting ; refer to p. 289 above.—63. ] commonly identified with  = 'muse,' 'complain,' 'talk,' etc.; so G, Aq. , Σ. , V (ad meditandum: so Tu. De.), T$OJ$ (: Ra.); Di. KS. al. think the sense of 'mourning' (for his father) most probable; but? IEz. ('to walk among the shrubs') and Böttcher ('to gather brushwood') derive from (21$15$). S is thought to rest on a reading (adopted by Ges. al.), but is rather a conjecture. Nö. (Beitr. z. sem. Spr. 43 f.) suggests a connexion with Ar. sāḥa = 'stroll' (point ).— of [E] is wrong (v.s.).—65. ] 37$19$† ; [E] .—] 38$14. 19$† (J). On the art. cf. G-K. § 126 s. After Lagarde's brilliant note (Sem. 23 ff.), it can scarcely be doubted that the word denotes a large double square wrapper or shawl, of any material.—67. ] G .—] art. with const. is violently ungrammatical; G-K. § 127 f.—For $2$ read (Kit.) v.s.