“And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.”
I asked her: whose daughter are you? She said: the daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him. Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her wrists. The genealogical confirmation and the giving of the gifts are recounted in sequence. The servant notes that he gave the gifts after learning her identity — the order matters: the character test was passed, the identity was confirmed, then the gifts were given. The application: the order of actions in a significant transaction communicates what motivated each step.
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