26. קרד qādad — “bow the head.” השׁתחוה shâchâh — “bow the body.”

29. לבן lābān — “Laban, white.”

In this circum…

Abraham was old. —As Isaac was thirty-seven years of age when Sarah died (Genesis 23:1), and forty at his marriage ([R…

Happy is the man who can say that, who has a blessing everywhere!

And yet Abraham had his "but," for Isaac was still unmarried, and perhaps h…

And Abraham was old. Moses proceeds to the account of Isaac’s marriage, because Abraham, indeed, perceiving that he was worn down by old a…

And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age
Being now one hundred and forty years of age, for as he was an hundr…

The effect of good example, good teaching, and the worship of God in a family will generally appear in the piety, faithfulness, prudence, and affec…