Genesis Chapter 24 verse 55 Holy Bible
And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us `a few' days, at the least ten. After that she shall go.
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But her brother and her mother said, Let the girl be with us a week or ten days, and then she may go.
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And her brother and her mother said, Let the maiden abide with us [some] days, or [say] ten; after that she shall go.
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And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.
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And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.
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Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go."
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and her brother saith -- her mother also -- `Let the young person abide with us a week or ten days, afterwards doth she go.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 55. - And her brother and her mother - Laban as usual (ver. 50) having the first place; probably because of the prominence which from this time he assumes in the theocratic history - said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at least ten. Literally, days, at least (Vulgate, sagtem); as it were (LXX., etc.); perhaps (Murphy); or (Furst, Ewald, Kalisoh); if she wish, with the idea of choice. (Gesenius); a ten or decade of days; the עָשׂור being used as a measure of time analogous to the שָׁבוּעַor hebdomad. That ten months are meant (Chaldee, Arabic, Ainsworth) is probably incorrect. After that she shall go.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(55) A few days, at the least ten.--Heb., days or a decade, which Onkelos, Saadja, Rashi, and others translate as in the margin: "a year or ten months." But while this rendering has high Jewish authority for it, yet more probably decade was the name for the third part of a month. It would be curious thus to find that the family of Terah, either with or instead of weeks, measured time by periods of ten days, as was certainly the custom of the Egyptians at one period of their history.
