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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Card, Orson Scott.

Rebekah / Orson Scott Card.

p.    cm.    —    (Women of Genesis)

ISBN-10 1-57008-995-7 (hardbound : alk. paper)
ISBN-13 978-1-57008-995-4 (hardbound : alk. paper)

1. Rebekah (Biblical matriarch)—Fiction.  2. Bible. O.T. Genesis—History

of Biblical events—Fiction.  3. Women in the Bible—Fiction.  I. Title.

PS3553.A655 R427  2001

813’.54—dc21 2001005523

Printed in the United States of America

Publishers Printing, Salt Lake City, Utah

10 9 8 7 6 5 4

To Zina

alight with all the graces you are the joy of this old man’s life

Table of Contents

Preface

Deaf Man's Daughter

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Unveiled

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chosen

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

The Seed of Abraham

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Blessings

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Preface

Preface

I used all the sources that previously helped me in writing Sarah, the companion volume to this book, and in addition, Norman L. Heap’s Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: Servants and Prophets of God (Family History Publications, Greensboro NC, 1986, 1999). While Dr. Heap places more reliance on non-biblical sources than I do, he performed the valuable service of bringing together all the scattered verses about each figure in the stories of the patriarchs. In particular, his book called my attention to Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, who had figured in none of my preliminary outlines because I had carelessly overlooked her. And figuring out why Rebekah, alone of all these women, was so close to her nurse throughout her life led me to the whole elaborate invention of the first half of this book.