And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
The man took a golden earring ... - [Hebrew, nezem (H5141), nose-jewel. The Septuagint erroneously has: enootia chrusa, golden earrings; the proper Greek correspondent to the Hebrew term is epirrinion.] This ring, set with jewels, was not for the ear, but for the nose (Genesis 24:47) х `al (H5921) 'apaah (H639)], upon her nostril (cf. Isaiah 3:21; Ezekiel 16:12) - a large ring on the wing of the left nostril, sometimes pierced through the cartilage in the central division of the nose, and falling down quite over the mouth (cf. Proverbs 11:22). The one given to Rebekah was "half a shekel weight," a bekah (Exodus 38:26) - i:e., it weighed 68 Parisian grains. Nose-jewels are still worn by thousands, both in Syria and Egypt, but not now among the respectable classes of society.
And two bracelets for her hands - the armlets, such as young women in Syria and Arabia still appear daily at wells decked in. They are worn from the elbow to the wrist, commonly made of silver, copper, mother-of-pearl, brass, or horn. But those given to Rebekah were of gold, of ten shekels weight = 2,680 Parisian grains (Bockh).