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ISAAC AND JACOB AND THEIR WIVES
In the King James Version of the Holy Bible, specifically in the Book
of Genesis, the story of Isaac, the son of Sarah and Abraham, focuses on
his relationship with Rebekah who was called from Haran to become his wife
in marriage. In Genesis 24:62-67, we are told that Rebekah, after being
approached by a servant to Abraham, "rode upon the camels and followed the
man, and the servant took Rebekah and went his way. And Isaac came from the
way of the well, for he dwelt in the south country."
Later on, Isaac brought Rebekah "into his mother Sarah's tent and took
Rebekah and she became his wife." Obviously, this account of how Abraham's
servant found Rebekah for Isaac strongly emphasizes the guidance and
overruling providence of God in the life of Isaac and his family. Also,
water itself is equated with Jehovah as the source of "living water" and
indicates spiritual purification, meaning that Rebekah was pure and a
virgin before she married Isaac.
Likewise, Jacob, the father of the Twelve Tribes of ancient Israel
and the twin brother of Esau (his mother was Rebekah, the wife of Isaac),
fled from the anger of Esau with the intention of finding a wife from the
same clan as his mother. At Haran, the same locale where Isaac met Rebekah,
Jacob was met by his cousin Rachel ("And Jacob went near and rolled the
stone from the well's mouth," Genesis 29:10) and was taken back to his
uncle Laban with whom Isaac agreed to work for seven years in order to take
Rachel as his wife. As mentioned above concerning how Isaac met Rebekah,
the location of Jacob's first meeting with Rachel is indicative of the
religious significance of water, whether used for drinking, watering cattle
and sheep or for ritual cleansing according to ancient Jewish practices.
Certainly, both of these encounters are symbolic of Isaac and Jacob's
spiritual longings and needs to be blessed by Jehovah; thus, water figures
prominently in these stories and many others in the Old Testament.
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