| John Blackburn - 1854 - 392 sivua
...for such services. Rebekah, the daughter of Bcthuel, was seen by Eliezar the servant of Abraham, as " she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up."* The same practice is still observable among the people of the East. In the Brahmin villages of the... | |
| Horatio Balch Hackett - 1856 - 268 sivua
...water, at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water. And, behold, Rebekah came out, with her pitcher upon her shoulder; and...to the well and filled her pitcher, and came up." A modern guide-book could hardly furnish a truer picture of what occurs at the close of every day,... | |
| John Kitto - 1855 - 676 sivua
...shoulder. 16 And the damsel teas 7very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her : r for a burnt offering unto the LORD. 13 And the meat offering ther 17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.... | |
| William Ritchie (of Berwick-upon-Tweed.) - 1856 - 258 sivua
...Ave know whether he came from the centre, the opposite side, or environs of the city. When Rebekah " went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up," she evidently came from the edge of the water. Translate it out of, in the following passages, and... | |
| Horatius Bonar - 1857 - 440 sivua
...Eliezer found Rebekah, when he went to seek her as a wife to Isaac, was of this kind, for we read that " she went down to the well and filled her pitcher and came up" (Gen. xxiv. 16). The wells of Mesopotamia, no doubt, resembled those of Syria more than those of the... | |
| Rev. Alexander Carson - 1857 - 572 sivua
..." Rebekah went down to the well — and came up.'* " Does this imply that she immersed herself? No. She went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up." Very true. But are the cases parallel? Do they not differ in the very point in which it is essential... | |
| 1858 - 424 sivua
...evening, even the time that women go out to draw water. And Rebekah, the very maiden whom he sought, "came out with her pitcher upon her shoulder, and...down to the well and filled her pitcher and came up." How often have I called upon fancy to imagine the retreating form of a Fellahah, with a vessel on her... | |
| Gray (Grandfather.) - 1858 - 434 sivua
...her shoulder. And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her : and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up." And Eliezer, Abraham's servant, " ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water... | |
| Henrietta Louisa Lear - 1858 - 268 sivua
...Eliezer had not finished his prayer, •when there came out a very beautiful maiden, with a pitcher on her shoulder, and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher with water. Then Eliezer went to meet her, and said, " Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of... | |
| American Tract Society - 1859 - 606 sivua
...v/ater, at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water. And behold, Kcbckah came out, with her pitcher upon her shoulder ; and...to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up." It is an uncommon sight to see "a man bearing a pitcher of wator," Mark 14:13. Jacob's well, at the... | |
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