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May 14, 2010

Isaac’s “meditation”

March 14th, 2009 by bkmarcus

Genesis 24:64I find the KJV difficult to read, but I love reading and listening to biblical scholarship. Here’s something you miss if you try to read the Bible for yourself:

Genesis 24:63. And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.

(This is the first time Isaac and his bride-to-be see each other.)

Genesis 24:64. And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.

Apparently "meditate" is a guess at an untranslatable word that appears nowhere else in the Bible, and "she lighted off the camel" is a mistranslation of "she fell off the camel."

So Isaac went out to ____ in the field, and when Rebecca saw him, she fell off her camel.

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2 Responses

  1. On ,
    neuroklinik said,

    The possibilities are endless… and for me, naturally lean towards the erotic.

    It’s like biblical Mad Libs!


  2. On ,
    Mal Grosch said,

    Thanks for helping me find the quote.

    Meditation means to ’stand in the middle’ which I agree is not that helpful. Maybe we are positioned firmly and before God.


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