at a window The account suggests that Isaac and Rebekah were in the courtyard overlooked by the king's residence. Cf. 2 Samuel 11:2.

sporting See Genesis 21:9 marg., "playing." The word in the original is the same as that from which the name "Isaac" was popularly derived; cf. Genesis 17:17; Genesis 17:19; Genesis 21:6. Here the meaning seems to be that of "fondling," the caress of husband and wife, rather than of brother and sister. LXX παίζοντα, Lat. jocantem.

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