We started last week with a walk in the Old Testament collecting the female names that appear in the Bible and we will continue with it, because, no doubt, these beautiful and sonic names can help families looking for a name for a daughter who It is about to be born.
Rebeca
We left Isaac starting his adult life and, like the logical one, it was time for him to marry. His father thought that the right wife should not come from the area where they were living, but from his own family, as was the tradition.
Therefore, he spoke with his trusted servant, prepared him with gifts of value and a few camels, and Jarán sent him, the land where his brother Nacor lived, who had not traveled with him and with Job.
Nacor had married his niece Melca (meaning "Queen") and was the grandfather of Laban and Rebekah, the girl who is destined to marry Isaac. The meaning of the name Rebeca it seems to come from the Hebrew "RIBQAH" (from the verb "to bind") and is conferred the meaning of "the one who creates bonds," "the one who binds."
The servant was afraid of how the negotiations would go but God calmed him by telling him that a girl would offer him water and be the one. Arrived in Jarán he met a group of maids who collected and carried water in their jugs to take it to the village. He approached them asked to drink. One, very pretty, offered water for him and also for the camels, with a generous gesture that made her pleasant in the eyes of the servant and quickly asked.
Upon discovering that he was from his lord's family, he gave her valuable gifts and she took him to the family home, where the marriage agreement was soon reached and Rebeca He left with the servant. Upon meeting his fiance, love arose between them.
Rebeca She was a good wife, but, to the sorrow of the husbands, she could not conceive a child. However, in the end, when they had been married for 20 years, she became pregnant.
Already in the womb the problems began between her children, who fought inside her giving her much trouble. When they were born it was first done by a robust and blond boy, Esau. And then, the younger twin, Jacob.
Esau grew strong, vigorous, hairy, loved hunting and had a bellicose character. His father loved him. Jacob, on the other hand, was quieter but very intelligent and spent time with women in stores and cultivated. His mother felt a weakness for him.
Jabob cheated on his brother, changing his birthright and his rights for a lentil stew, a day when the elder arrived faint from the hunt. It seems that this would not suit Esau very well, but there was no great confrontation.
While the boys grew up Esau, wayward, chose a pair of wives among the inhabitants of the nearby cities and they did nothing more than dislike their parents, who were already elderly.
The situation became increasingly tense, and Rebeca He drew up a plan to favor his favorite son. Isaac was already an old man and was resting in his bed, and he had lost his sight, so Rebekah encouraged Jacob to deceive him and obtain the paternal blessing that would confer definitive power and authority over the entire tribe and their descendants.
Rebeca He heard that Isaac sent Esau to hunt for a good stew, but, while the son hunted she had some kids killed, he prepared the food and made Jacob present it to his father, covering his arms with the skins of the animals to that the old man confused him with Esau, who was very hairy.
Received by Jacob the blessing, Esau, aware, mounted in anger and swore to kill his brother if he found him. The parents, worried, sent him outside and there was no better place than the house of the relatives from which Rebeca came. By the way, Jacob, was commissioned to return properly married to a woman of his kind.
Rebeca it is the one that links, that has bound her with a sweet bow the destiny of the Hebrew people and from her all the tribes of Israel will descend. As a wife and mother he had his flaws, but he was, without a doubt, generous and intelligent. She is not a submissive woman but takes the reins when she thinks it is necessary for the good of her family.
We stay in it. In the next topic we will talk about his nieces and daughters-in-law, the wives and concubines that Jacob will finally bring when he returns from the rugged trip to which Rebeca Did you sent.
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