Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. That is why it was called Allon Bakuth. Allon Bakuth means oak of weeping. The brief notice of Deborah's death — Rebekah's nurse who traveled with the family from Paddan Aram — is a small, tender marker of continuity and loss. The weeping at her death honors the connection she represented to Rebekah's household. The application: the deaths of the people who connected the generations — nurses, servants, household members who carried the memory — deserve their own tears and their own oaks of weeping.

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