Rebecca lights off the camel, and covers her self with a vail, as in genesis 24:64-67: "and rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw isaac, she lighted off the camel. For she had said unto the servant, what man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? and the servant had said, it is my master: therefore she took a veil, and covered herself. And the servant told isaac all things that he had done. And isaac brought her into his mother sarah's tent, and took rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and isaac was comforted after his mother's death. " (kjv); illustration from the 1728 figures de la bible; illustrated by gerard hoet (1648-1733) and others, and published by p. De hondt in the hague; image courtesy bizzell bible collection, university of oklahoma libraries. Date: 1728.
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