Genesis 25:20

American Standard Version (1901)

and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

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  • Gen 24:29 : 29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the fountain.
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
  • Gen 22:23 : 23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
  • Gen 28:5-6 : 5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. 6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
  • Gen 31:18 : 18 and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan.
  • Gen 31:20 : 20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
  • Gen 31:24 : 24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said unto him, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
  • Gen 35:9 : 9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
  • Deut 26:5 : 5 And thou shalt answer and say before Jehovah thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
  • Luke 4:27 : 27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.

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  • Gen 28:1-2
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    1And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

    2Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

  • Gen 28:5-6
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    5And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

    6Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

  • Gen 24:66-67
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    66And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.

    67And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

  • Gen 25:19
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    19And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac:

  • Gen 25:21
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    21And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren: and Jehovah was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

  • Gen 26:34-35
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    34And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

    35and they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

  • Gen 24:4
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    4but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.

  • Gen 24:51
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    51Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as Jehovah hath spoken.

  • Gen 24:14-16
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    14and let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast showed kindness unto my master.

    15And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

    16And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the fountain, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

  • Gen 27:46
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    46And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

  • Gen 26:6-8
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    6And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

    7and the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, My wife; lest, [said he], the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

    8And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

  • Gen 24:29-30
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    29And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the fountain.

    30And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he was standing by the camels at the fountain.

  • Gen 21:5
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    5And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

  • Gen 11:29
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    29And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

  • Gen 24:64
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    64And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she alighted from the camel.

  • Gen 28:9
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    9and Esau went unto Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

  • Gen 35:27
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    27And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

  • Gen 20:2
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    2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

  • Gen 24:61
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    61And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

  • Gen 22:23
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    23And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

  • Gen 20:12
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    12And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:

  • Gen 21:21
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    21And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 25:26
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    26And after that came forth his brother, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

  • Gen 24:38
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    38but thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.