The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 24:64

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And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw (literally, and she saw, though as yet she did not know that it was) Isaac, she lighted—literally, fell; the word signifying a hasty descent (cf. 1 Samuel 25:23; 2 Kings 5:21); κατεπήδησεν (LXX.

); descended (Vulgate)—off the camel. "The behavior of Rebekah was such as modern etiquette requires".

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