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Who is this man

that walketh in the field,

O Eleazar,

steward to my lord?

And Eleazar

answered her and said,

Daughter of Bethuel,

it is other none

But my lord Isaac,

son unto my lord,

Who, as his wont is,

walketh in the field,

In the hour of evening,

meditating there.

Therefore Rebekah

hasted where she sat,

And from her camel

’lighting to the earth,

Sought for a veil

and put it on her face,

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?

And, as he ended,

Isaac spoke and said,

Surely my heart

went with you on the way,

When with the beasts

ye came unto the place.

Truly, O child

of Nahor, I was there,

When to thy mother

and thy mother’s son

Thou madest answer,

saying, I will go.

And Isaac brought her

to his mother’s tent.