Nachor son of Terach died in the fortieth year of Yitzchak's life [(this is Year 2088)]. And all the days of Nachor were one hundred seventy-two years, and he was buried in Charan. Avraham mourned him for many days. And Avraham sent Eliezer to take a wife for Yitzchak.

And when he went, Avraham sent to the house of Shem and Ever to bring Yitzchak, and Eliezer went to Charan. [(Sefer HaYashar)] From Kiryat Arba to Charan is a journey of seventeen days, but in two hours he came to Charan, etc., for it says, "And I came today to the well," etc. He rose early in the morning and saw the angel standing and waiting, and said, "Do not delay me," etc. And so that the servant would not be alone with the maiden at night, the earth contracted.

At six hours of the day the servant left Charan and in two hours he came to Chevron toward evening, and Yitzchak went out to pray the Minchah (afternoon) prayer. [(Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer chapter 16) And in the Midrash, section 109, at two hours of the day he left Charan and the earth contracted, etc.] And they gave him Rivkah, and she was ten years old. And they sent with her Devorah her nurse, daughter of Utz, and gave her silver and gold and servants and maidservants.

And Yitzchak was forty years old when he took Rivkah [(this is Year 2088)] [(Sefer HaYashar)]. Three years after Sarah's death he took Rivkah [(Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer chapter 32). In the Seder Olam and in Tosefot on the chapter "HaBa Al Yevimto" (Sanhedrin 69b), and in the Midrash at the beginning of Toldot, she was three years old. And in Masechet Sofrim, end of chapter 21, Rivkah was three years and three days old (for she was born at the time of the Akeidah, Bereishit Rabbah, chapter 57).

And in Tosefot there, according to one opinion she was fourteen years old, and according to Bereishit Rabbah there that Rivkah was born at the time of the Akeidah and Yitzchak was forty when he married her, there are therefore different opinions as to how old she was (see Year 2085), and it depends on how old Yitzchak was at the time of the Akeidah. According to the opinion that Yitzchak was twenty-six at the Akeidah, it follows that Rivkah was fourteen years old when Yitzchak married her at age forty.

And according to the opinion that Yitzchak was thirty-seven, it follows that Rivkah was three when Yitzchak married her.]

It says [in the Kanfei Yonah part 2, section 121: Rivkah lived one hundred twenty-seven years, end quote. It seems to me that this is consistent with Rivkah being three years old when Yitzchak married her, and she was barren for twenty years (as stated in the Midrash Lech Lecha section 78 and Midrash Toldot section 120 and Tanna DeVei Eliyahu chapter 18 and Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer chapter 32).

Therefore she gave birth to Yaakov at age twenty-two, and Yaakov was eighty-four years old when he married, making one hundred seven. And after the marriages he worked seven years for Rachel and six years for sheep, making one hundred twenty, plus a year and a half he stayed on the way as Rashi wrote. And at that time he was informed of his mother Rivkah's death, as the phrase "the oak of weeping" indicates.

So it is close to one hundred twenty-seven or more. And according to Tosefot, Rivkah was fourteen years old when Yitzchak married her, and she was barren for twenty years, and Yaakov was eighty-four when he married and worked twelve years for Lavan, plus a year and a half on the journey, at which time Rivkah died.

Therefore she lived one hundred thirty-two years. And so it is explicit in Bereishit Rabbah, end of Vayechi. And in Sifrei at the end of Ve'zot HaBrachah, Rivkah and Kehat's years were equal, and it is explicit in Parashat Va'era that Kehat lived one hundred thirty-three years. And so in Sefer HaYashar.

Therefore she died in Year 2207, which was sixty-nine years into Yaakov's life, and she was born in Year 2085. And in Shulchan Aruch, Daat Yoshev section 1, it is written that Rivkah lived one hundred thirty-seven years—this is an error. (See Year 2208).]

And Yitzchak [][was comforted, etc. He went to bring Hagar who sat at the well Be'er Lachai Ro'i (Midrash section 109)].

Eliezer, [][the servant of Avraham, because he performed kindness for Yitzchak, HaShem brought him out to freedom, etc. And the Holy One, Blessed be He, gave him his reward in this world: that he should be a king, and he is Og king of Bashan (Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer chapter 16). Og is Eliezer, and once Avraham rebuked him, and from his fear his teeth fell out, and Avraham made a bed of ivory and he slept there.

And some say he made a chair and sat on it all his days. And what was his food? A thousand oxen and likewise every kind of animal, and his drink was a thousand measures. And his drop of seed was thirty-five liters.

And who gave him to Avraham? Nimrod (Masechet Sofrim chapter 21, see there). In the Midrash Chayei Sarah section 29: Yitzchak came upon Rivkah and did not find her a virgin, for she fell from the camel and became bruised by a piece of wood, and he suspected Eliezer son of Nimrod (see Year 1958 when Nimrod was a servant). And because she was suspected virtuously, she merited to enter the Garden of Eden alive.

And in Bereishit Rabbah, Parashat Chayei Sarah: Eliezer was Canaanite, son of Cham. Eliezer was at first a holy soul given within the shell of the cursed Canaan, and when Eliezer was born, the soul emerged from that shell of the cursed Canaan and was called "blessed." And afterward he was further refined and reincarnated in Kalev ben Yefuneh (see Year 2449). Eshkol was a brother of Eliezer (see Year 2023).

He was reincarnated in Yosef (see Year 2205).]

Lavan [][was reincarnated in the father of Naval (Avigail), and this is hinted at in "Avigal" spelled without the yod, which stands for "Avi Gal" (my father is a heap), as it says "you shall not pass over this heap." And because Lavan said to Eliezer "Come, blessed of HaShem," he went out from the category of "cursed" to the category of "blessed." Therefore he merited a son about whom was said the psalm "Almut Laben" (Beit Natan, end of the book). Behold, Milkah bore a son—Bethuel was his name—the letters of "HaBen Banim LeNachor" spell "HaBal" (Hevel, Abel).

Lavan son of Nachor, the evil of Abel was reincarnated in him (Na'acha). He was reincarnated in Bilam, and "Naval" is an anagram of "Lavan Bilam Naval." (See Avot of Rabbi Natan chapter 127 and Yalkut on Balak. See Year 2488 and 2886).]

At that time, when Avraham was one hundred and forty years old [(this is Year 2088)], he additionally took another wife in his old age, and her name was Keturah from the land of Canaan. And she bore him Zimran, Yokshan, Medan, Midyan, Yishbak, and Shuach. The sons of Zimran: Avidan, Molich, and Maria. The sons of Yokshan: Sheva and Dedan.

The sons of Medan: Amida, Yov, Buchi, Elisha, and Kutach. The sons of Midyan: Ephah, Epher, Chanoch, Avida, and Elda'ah. The sons of Yishbak: Machiri, Bidua, and Tatur. The sons of Shuach: Bildad [(perhaps he is Bildad the Shuchite)], Chamda, Munan, and Mivan.

And Avraham sent them and gave them gifts and they went from Yitzchak to the mountain of the east and dwelt there until this day. But the sons of Sheva and Dedan and the sons of Yokshan with their sons did not dwell with their brothers in their cities and dwelt in the deserts until this day. And the sons of Midyan son of Avraham went eastward to the land of Kush and found a large valley in the land of the east and dwelt there—this is the land of Midyan until this day.

And these are the names of his sons: Ephah, etc. The sons of Ephah: Mitach, Meishar, Avi, and Tzalu'a. The sons of Epher: Ephron, Tzur, Elidon, and Mehon. The sons of Chanoch: Re'u'el, Rikno'a, Uvi, Eliyoshev, and Chelah.

The sons of Avida: Chur, Meludah, Karvil, and Malchi. The sons of Elda'ah: Ru'ah, Yechir, Rava, and Malchiyah, and Gavel. And these are the descendants of Yishmael son of Avraham from the wilderness. And Yishmael took a wife from the land of Egypt named Rivah, which is Merivah, and she bore Nevayot, Kedar, Adbel, Mivsam, and Basmat his sister.

And he drove her out because she was evil in his eyes and in the eyes of Avraham, and she returned to Egypt. And afterward Yishmael took a wife from the land of Canaan named Malkut, and she bore Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Chadad, Tema, Yetur, Nafish, and Kedmah. And Yishmael went with his sons and they dwelt near the wilderness of Paran from Chavilah until Shur which is before Egypt, going toward Ashur. And these are the sons of Nevayot: Mi'ud, Su'ah, and Ma'yun.

The sons of Kedar: Atzyon, Katzna, and Chamah, and Ali. The sons of Adbel: Chamud and Yavin. The sons of Mivsam: Avdiyah, Evad, and Melech, and Ya'ush. The sons of Mishma: Shamah, Zachdion, and Ovah.

The sons of Dumah: Katzna, Ali, Machmah, and Ama. The sons of Massa: Melon, Mulah, Evad, and Adun. The sons of Chadad: Na'atzud, Mintza'ah, Evar, and Melech. The sons of Tema: Sa'ir, Sa'adon, and Yaful.

The sons of Yetur: Marok, Ya'ush, Aluvi, and Pachut. The sons of Nafish: Ever, Chamir, Aviyosef, and Miri. The sons of Kedmah: Kalif, Tachti, and Amir [(Sefer HaYashar)].