פרשת חיי שרה תשכ"ט - שליחותו של אליעזר

2. And God blessed Abraham [with everything] - this is to inform/explain to us about what is said in [the text in] front of us, that Abraham did not send his servant to take a wife [for Isaac] on account of lack of women in the Land of Canaan or because no one wanted to mate with him, because Abraham had been blessed with everything and the entire world desired to mate with Isaac, but because he only wanted a spouse for Isaac from his family. This is why Abraham's servant said: "And Adonai blessed my master very much and he has become wealthy." And it is for this reason that the text needed to explain first that God had blessed Abraham "with everything," as in a similar instance: "And Ham was the father of Canaan" (Genesis 9:18).

כי אם אל ארצי, not to members of any nation which does not dwell physically close to the region from which I originate. This is where you shall go to conduct your search.

The passuk is missing the act. for it should have said "the man took a golden nose ring 'and placed it' on her nose and 2 bracelets, on her arms." Therefore I say the explanation of this passuk is "The man took a golden nose ring and 2 bracelets 'to be' upon her arms" and said to her "whose daughter are you?" Only then after she said to him "I am the daughter of Betuel" did he place the nose ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arms, as he said to Rivkah's family later. However, it omitted the giving here (v.22) [although mentioned there (v. 47) And so we find in many places in the Torah.

The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spoke unto me, and who swore unto me, saying: Unto thy seed will I give this land; He will send His angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence.

And he said unto me: The LORD, before whom I walk, will send His angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house;

And he said unto me: The LORD, before whom I walk, will send His angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house;

And he said unto me: The LORD, before whom I walk, will send His angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house;