There he buried Deborah, Rebekah's nurse — We have reason to think that Jacob, after he came to Canaan, while his family dwelt near Shechem, went himself to visit his father Isaac at Hebron. Rebekah probably was dead, but her old nurse (of whom mention is made Genesis 24:59,) survived her, and Jacob took her to his family. While they were at Beth — el she died, and died lamented, so much lamented, that the oak under which she was buried, was called Allon — bachuth, the oak of weeping.

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