Rabbi Berekiah and Rabbi Levi in the name of Rabbi Hama ben Haninah taught that God answered Isaac's prayer for children in rather than the prayer of Rebekah's family in Rabbi Berekiah in Rabbi Levi's name read to say, "The blessing of the destroyer (, "oved") came upon me," and interpreted "The blessing of the destroyer (, "oved")" to allude to Laban the Syrian. Rabbi Berekiah in Rabbi Levi's name thus read to say, "An Aramean (Laban) sought to destroy (, "oved") my father (Jacob)." (Thus Laban sought to destroy Jacob by, perhaps among other things, cheating Jacob out of payment for his work, as Jacob recounted in This interpretation thus reads , "oved", as a transitive verb.) Rabbi Berekiah and Rabbi Levi in the name of Rabbi Hama ben Haninah thus explained that Rebekah was remembered with the blessing of children only after Isaac prayed for her, so that the heathens in Rebekah's family might not say that their prayer in caused that result. Rather, God answered Isaac's prayer, as reports, "And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife . . . and his wife Rebekah conceived."