Eliezer

Family: Israelites · Role: slave of Abraham · First appears: JACOB'S LAST WISH

In “JACOB'S LAST WISH,” Eliezer is identified as Abraham’s slave. The account contrasts the slave’s conduct, which followed “the rules of slavery,” with the free man’s conduct, which followed “the dictates of freedom,” and says that what was fitting for a slave would have been unseemly in a son.

Relationship record

JACOB'S LAST WISH

• employer: Abraham (The passage refers to Eliezer as the slave who had acted at Abraham's request.) “The slave acted in accordance with the rules of slavery, the free man acted in accordance with the dictates of freedom. And in a son that thing would have been unseemly which was becoming in a slave.”

The King Of Ethiopia

• employer: Abraham “how Abraham had made his servant Eliezer swear, saying unto him, ‘Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.’”

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume II. Made with Rho MD.