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Genesis 24:48,55,67 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham...
Genesis 31:33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not...
her mother's. Some have conjectured from this, that her father Bethuel was dead; and the person called Bethuel, (ver.
50,) was a younger brother. This is possible; but as Dr. A. Clarke remarks, the mother's house might be mentioned were even the father alive; for in Asiatic countries, the women have apartments entirely separate from those of the men, in which their little children and grown-up daughters reside with them. This was probably the case here; though, from the whole narrative, it is very probable that Bethuel was dead, as the whole business appears to be conducted by Rebekah's brothers.