"Alighted" is a linguistic fossil of vertical displacement that betrays the sheer performative weight of Rebekah’s ancient arrival.
A reading from Genesis 24:64
And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she alighted from the camel.
— Genesis 24:64 (en_asv)
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And she alighted from the camel.