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Genesis 24:10 . And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
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Genesis 24:11. He made his camels to kneel down — Probably...
- 10 Then The Servant Took Ten of His Master's Camels and Departed With All Manner of Good Things From His Master in Hand. and He Set Out for Nahor's Hometown in Aram-Naharaim
Verse 10. - And the servant took ten camels of the camels of...
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Feb 7, 2014 · Camels play a major role in the Biblical narrative of the patriarchs; the animals are mentioned over 20 times in Genesis alone. However, a recent publication by Tel Aviv University (TAU) archaeologists Erez Ben-Yosef and Lidar Sapir-Hen suggests that camels were not domesticated in Israel until the end of the 10th century B.C.E.
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Benson Commentary. Job 1:3. His substance also was seven thousand sheep — Namely, seven thousand small cattle, whether sheep or goats, in opposition to the larger cattle next mentioned. And three thousand camels — Camels in these parts were very numerous, as is manifest from Jdg 7:12; 1 Chronicles 5:21, and the testimonies of Aristotle and ...
Jan 3, 2023 · Abraham’s Camels. Did camels exist in Biblical times? Camels appear with Abraham in some Biblical texts—and depictions thereof, such as The Caravan of Abram by James Tissot, based on Genesis 12. When were camels first domesticated? Although camel domestication had not taken place by the time of Abraham in the land of Canaan, it had in ...
[21] Times, p. 4, Aug. 18, 1913, “Studies in the Zoological Gardens, 4.” “However ‘patient of thirst,’ in Thomson’s phrase, the camel may be … it is also true that it drinks inordinate quantities when it gets the chance.… It is recorded that an individual [camel] has drunk as much as 20 gallons at a sitting, a fact which throws ...
The New York Times, in a story about the finding today, announced, “There are too many camels in the Bible, out of time and out of place … these anachronisms are telling evidence that the...
Domesticated camels are mentioned more than twenty times in the patriar-chal narratives (in Genesis), sixteen of these mentions appear in the context of one event.6 This occurs when Abraham’s servant takes ten of his master’s camels (Gen. 24:10) to Aram, where he was sent by Abraham to arrange for a wife for his son Isaac.
