hand-under-thigh-oath

Rebekah at the Well: The Lexical Engine of Covenant Loyalty

Genesis Genesis 24:1-28

Twenty-eight verses at a foreign well introduce four covenant patterns at once: the hand-under-the-thigh oath, the «send my angel before you» guidance formula, the betrothal-at-the-well type-scene, and the chesed v-emet word-pair that will run from Sinai to Micah and into the prologue of John.