Who was Rebekah's Nurse

        Deborah I (Gen. 35:8), Rebekah's nurse, who had come with her from Mesopotamia to the land of Canaan and had afterwards been taken into the family of Jacob and Rachel. Her death is recorded at Beth-el while the family was on its way from Mesopotamia into the land of Canaan.
       Deborah, who evidently was held in great reverence by the family which she had served for two generations, was buried at Beth-el under an oak, the name of which was Allon-bachuth, meaning "terebinth of weeping.''
       Some scholars (see Zondervan's Commentary on the Whole Bible, p. 37, col. 2), suppose Deborah might have attained "the great age of 180.'' In these early patriarchal families old nurses such as she
were honored as foster-mothers.
       Commentators have theorized that, had Deborah lived, Rachel also might have also have lived (see Interpreter's Bible on Genesis, p. 739, col. 2). In the very next verses after Deborah's death we learn that Rachel gave birth to Benjamin and died in childbirth "So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem)."Genesis 35:19 Humble though Deborah's role was, her place in the life of Jacob's family is not to be underestimated, for not only is her name recorded but she was buried in a place of holy associations.