19
He said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.” She opened a container of milk, and gave him a drink, and covered him.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 19. Milk, out of a shew of greater civility. The Rabbins say the milk was sour, which is conformable to the manners of the oriental nations. Valle remarks, that the Arabs still give the preference to it. The bottle is which it was kept was made of leather, (utrem) and the milk was like cream. Calmet. 5:25. Some think that wine was not then used in this family, as the Rechabites, descendants of the Cinites, always refrained from it. Jeremiah 25. But it is not certain that they did at this time, nor that they sprang from this branch of the family.
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