Genesis 23:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Abraham bowed himself Thus returning them thanks for their kind offer, with all proper decency and respect. Religion not only allows, but requires civility and good manners, and those gestures which express it, and every professor of it should carefully avoid rudeness and clownishness. “Love doth not behave itself unseemly.”

Genesis 23:7

7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.