Genesis 24:16 meaning and explanation

Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.

Genesis 24:16, Berean Standard Bible

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The narrator pauses to describe Rebekah as she arrives at the well. She is young, unmarried and beautiful, and the Hebrew word betulah identifies her as a virgin, a detail the text states plainly.

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