Deborah (II)

II. DEBORAH, Rebecca’s nurse, who, when Jacob returned from Mesopotamia into the Land of Promise, went with him, died there, and was buried at the foot of Bethel, under an oak, which for this reason Gen. xxxv. 8.was called the Oak of weeping, in the year of the world 2266. before the birth of Jesus Christ 1734. before the vulgar Æra 1738. The word Deborah signifies a Bee.

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