This blessing, with the reaction to the servant’s declare that Jesus had led him to Rebekah, helps me personally to understand just why Abraham insisted that Isaac’s spouse be acquired from their close family relations in Mesopotamia. To some degree Bethuel and their home will need to have provided a faith into the Jesus of Abraham. They quickly taken care of immediately evidence of divine guidance as recounted by the servant (verses 37-49, 50-51). Their blessing on Rebekah is, within my estimation, a expression of the faith in Abraham’s Jesus along with his covenant. The blessing they pronounced too closely parallels God’s promise that is covenant Abraham become coincidental: 206
“And i am going to bless her, and even i am going to present a son by her. I quickly shall bless her, and she will probably be a mom of countries; kings of individuals shall result from her” (Gen. 17:16)