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

29. לבן lābān — “Laban, white.”

In this circum…

A few days, at least ten. —Hebrew, days or a decade, which Onkelos, Saadja, Rashi, and others translate as in the margin:…

And her brother and her mother said
Here her brother Laban is set before his mother, as above before his father, bei…

Abraham's servant, as one who chose his work before his pleasure, was intent on hastening home. Lingering and loitering in no way befit a wise and …