In the Bible, bracelets are gifts of love and marks of honour. Abraham’s servant puts gold bracelets on Rebekah’s wrists when she is chosen to marry Isaac (Genesis 24:47). God, telling Jerusalem how he loved her, says, “I put bracelets upon thy hands” (Ezekiel 16:11). Israel offered them to God, and prophets warned when they fed pride. In both of those first scenes, someone else does the putting on. Rebekah came to the well with her pitcher on her shoulder,…

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