Bible Strands
Genesis 24:61
Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records Rebekah and her maidservants preparing to depart after Abraham’s servant secures her agreement and the family delivers a blessing. This moment occurs immediately after the blessing in Genesis 24:60 and precedes Isaac’s return from Beer-lahai-roi in Genesis 24:62.
The words — The Hebrew וַתִּרְכַּבְנָה (va.tir.kav.nah) translates literally as “and they rode,” while וַתֵּלַכְנָה (va.te.lakh.nah) means “and they went.” These consecutive verbs document the physical progression of Rebekah and her attendants mounting the camels and moving in the servant’s direction.
The thread — The pattern of leaving a father’s house to join a new lineage appears in Genesis 2:24 and Psalms 45:10, while the camel saddle imagery reappears in Genesis 31:34. The narrative structure of a woman departing her family to enter a covenant line recurs across the patriarchal records.
Why it lands — The passage states a factual sequence of preparation, mounting, and departure without recording Rebekah’s internal deliberation. It requires the reader to note how the text tracks covenant fulfillment through immediate physical compliance rather than emotional or theological exposition.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
Cross-references
- Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
- Psalms 45:10 Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
- Genesis 31:34 Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
- 1 Samuel 30:17 And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.
- Esther 8:10 Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers riding on swift horses bred from the royal mares.
- Esther 8:14 The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses, pressed on by the command of the king. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa.