But Moses loved him
and found joy in his company. Joshua loved him and had him by his side
when Israel warred. Caleb and Aaron loved him because he was godly,
and Miriam was proud of him and was mild in his presence. He took no
public part in the people's affairs, yet who shall say that he was not
near when Bezaleel wrought the wondrous angels for the ark? Who shall
say that his purest jewel did not enter the breast-plate of the high
priest? There are many names embraced in that general term, "every
wise-hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle."
So when Israel took up the forty years of pasture-hunting in Paran,
Kenkenes made his tent beautiful and pitched it always apart from the
multitude, and here he was contented all the days that Israel tarried
in that place. Under his care his flocks increased, his cattle
multiplied and his camels were not few, and he laid up riches for the
four stalwart sons and the golden-haired daughter who were to live
after him.
From the moment of his union with his beautiful wife, through the long
years of semi-isolation that he knew thereafter, he grew closer and
closer to Rachel. She filled all his needs as Israel failed to supply
them, and he missed neither friend nor neighbor when she was near.
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