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Mike M replies to Carolyn:
You wrote:
"p.s. Mr Marcus, Rebekkah is no relation to Isaac. Jacob's servant
chooses her as a mate for Isaac because of her generosity to him and
others at the well, Beershevah, the seventh well. Not veil - well.
Jacob does however send his servant back to his, Jacob's, ancestral
homeland to choose the bride, so only in that sense is she related to
the family. I believe many arabs and non-arab muslims still do this to
this day."
Could all those years of Hebrew school have been for nothing? Since you
had me second-guessing myself, I did a google search for "rebekah isaac
cousins". You try it, and you will discover, on web sites of many
stripes, that they WERE cousins.
MM