Humanity's good deed for the day

Snake saved from wedding ring. Oh the metaphors.

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Naytura sugar-free choc-chip cookies are flavourless. Nonetheless I have just eaten three.

Genesis 23

Skidoo!

What's all this about? Ephron and Abraham sound like to old guys going "After you." "No, after you." Is it significant - making a point about either character or correct behaviour?

Genesis 24

Actually, that was rather dull, so let's have the next one.

- "Put thy hand under my thigh"?! What a way to swear an oath. No wonder they needed the Bible.

- Where's Nahor? (Oh - it's not a place, it's Abraham's brother.)

- Due to Sarah's very late conception, an extra generation has passed, so Rebekah is the granddaughter of Abraham's brother. (Does that make her Isaac's grandcousin? :-)

- I'm taken by the phrase "let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them."

- Rebekah covers herself with a veil before meeting Isaac. That's interesting - she doesn't need to do so in the presence of Abraham's unnamed servant, only before her intended. I wonder what the signifiance is?

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While I'm on the subject, anybody out there seen the Gospels with Paul McGann? (Better still, did anybody tape it?)