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 But Isaac also, walking in the field, Saw from afar a company that came, Camels, and a seat as where a woman sat; Wherefore he came and met them on the way.

Whom, when Rebekah saw, she came before, Saying, Behold the handmaid of my lord; Who, for my lord's sake, travel from my land.

But he said, O thou blessed of our God, Come, for the tent is eager for thy face. Shall not thy husband, be unto thee more than Hundreds of kinsmen living in thy land?

And Eleazar answered, Thus and thus, Even according as thy father bade, Did we; and thus and thus it came to pass: Lo! is not this Rebekah, Bethuel's child.