So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men.
And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth.
For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness.
Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers?
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands, and may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate him!”
And the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.
Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, “The thing has come from the Lord; we cannot speak to you bad or good.
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