Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spanish
“Oh No, We’re Not Dating. We’re Just Getting Together for a Drink,” 1652
Oil on canvas
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/// Before Abraham’s man, Eliezer,
met Rebecca he planned to appraise her.
He had come to the well
where his master’s kin dwell,
and he focused on her like a laser.
/// Eliezer had been tasked to find
a young woman, hard-working and kind.
If she passed every test
and exceeded the rest,
she, with Isaac, in wedlock would bind.
/// ‘Becca offered him water to drink.
All his camels, too, quick as a wink.
Eliezer then knew
she’s the bride-to-be who,
with the Matriarchs would be in synch.
/// So by slaking this traveler’s thirst,
young Rebecca was soon reimbursed
with a golden nose-ring
and the promise he’d bring
her to Canaan to be Isaac’s first.
/// Though your people are shallow and tribal,
if your tale’s told by chroniclers (scribal)
that well-water was shared,
then you may be declared
worthy to have your name in the Bible.
// Thus the moral’s Be Kind to the Stranger.
With no water his life is in danger.
Had Rebecca said, “No.
Take your camels and go.”
It would really have been a game-changer.
/// Scripture says that the good share their portions.
(Though some justify selfish distortions.)
Had the traveller died
when a drink was denied—
moral lapse Biblical in proportions.