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His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bare Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
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Setting the Stage for Isaac
Commentators explain that this list of Nahor's family is not a random detail. It is strategically included to set the stage for the next major event in the patriarchal story: finding a wife for Isaac from among Abraham's relatives, which connects directly to Rebekah, mentioned in the previous verse.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
2. מריה morı̂yâh — “Moriah”; Samaritan: מוראה môr'âh; Septuagint, ὑψηλή hupsēlē — Onkelos, “w…
19th Century
Anglican
Maachah. —This name appears as that of a small Aramaic people, in Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 12:5; [Reference 2 Samuel 10…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah Not an harlot, but a secondary wife, who was under the proper and lawful …
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This chapter ends with some account of Nahor's family, who had settled at Haran. This seems to be given for the connection which it had with the ch…
