The Royal Veil Abimelech Gave Sarah and the Rebuke Hidden In It

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 91:2

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Another interpretation: "Make for yourself a covering" [reading the silver gift as a veil], so that all would look at the covering and not at her beauty. He took a royal garment and clothed her in it, and made her into a noblewoman. And why? So that no man would demand her, but rather they would hear that she is a queen and be afraid to demand her, since she is covered from the eye. Resh Lakish said: He sought to provoke her against her husband, as if to say: all these years she was with him and he did nothing for her, yet she was with this one for a single night and he did her all this honor.

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WomenPatriarchsWisdom

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