Torah22 min
Isaac and Rebekah: The Akedah Blessing on Aramean Lips and the First Husband-Loves-Wife
Genesis Genesis 24:29-67
Bethuel and Laban speak the Akedah blessing back over Rebekah without knowing what they echo. Isaac brings her into Sarah's tent and loves her in the canon's first husband-loves-wife, and is comforted by a verb that runs forward into Isaiah's promise and the Paraclete.