Genesis 24:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And even before his words were ended, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water-vessel on her arm.

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  • Gen 11:29 : 29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.
  • Gen 11:27 : 27 These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.
  • Gen 22:20-23 : 20 After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children; 21 Uz the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram, 22 And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel. 23 Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.
  • Gen 24:24 : 24 And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, Nahor's wife.
  • Gen 24:45 : 45 And even while I was saying this to myself, Rebekah came out with her vessel on her arm; and she went down to the spring to get water; and I said to her, Give me a drink.
  • Exod 2:16 : 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock.
  • Judg 6:36-40 : 36 Then Gideon said to God, If you are going to give Israel salvation by my hand, as you have said, 37 See, I will put the wool of a sheep on the grain-floor; if there is dew on the wool only, while all the earth is dry, then I will be certain that it is your purpose to give Israel salvation by my hand as you have said. 38 And it was so: for he got up early on the morning after, and twisting the wool in his hands, he got a basin full of water from the dew on the wool. 39 Then Gideon said to God, Do not be moved to wrath against me if I say only this: let me make one more test with the wool; let the wool now be dry, while the earth is covered with dew. 40 And that night God did so; for the wool was dry, and there was dew on all the earth round it.
  • Ruth 2:2 : 2 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Now let me go into the field and take up the heads of grain after him in whose eyes I may have grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.
  • Ruth 2:17 : 17 So she went on getting together the heads of grain till evening; and after crushing out the seed it came to about an ephah of grain.
  • Ps 34:15 : 15 The eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry.
  • Ps 65:2 : 2 To you, O hearer of prayer, let the words of all flesh come.
  • Ps 145:18-19 : 18 The Lord is near all those who give honour to his name; even to all who give honour to him with true hearts. 19 To his worshippers, he will give their desire; their cry comes to his ears, and he gives them salvation.
  • Prov 31:27 : 27 She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.
  • Isa 58:9 : 9 Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;
  • Isa 65:24 : 24 And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.
  • Dan 9:20-23 : 20 And while I was still saying these words in prayer, and putting my sins and the sins of my people Israel before the Lord, and requesting grace from the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God; 21 Even while I was still in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at first when my weariness was great, put his hand on me about the time of the evening offering. 22 And teaching me and talking to me he said, O Daniel, I have come now to give you wisdom. 23 At the first word of your prayer a word went out, and I have come to give you knowledge; for you are a man dearly loved: so give thought to the word and let the vision be clear to you.
  • Gen 29:9 : 9 While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she took care of them.
  • Gen 21:14 : 14 And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

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  • Gen 24:42-48
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    42 And I came today to the water-spring, and I said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if it is your purpose to give a good outcome to my journey,

    43 Let it come about that, while I am waiting here by the water-spring, if a girl comes to get water and I say to her, Give me a little water from your vessel, and she says,

    44 Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels; let her be the woman marked out by the Lord for my master's son.

    45 And even while I was saying this to myself, Rebekah came out with her vessel on her arm; and she went down to the spring to get water; and I said to her, Give me a drink.

    46 And straight away she took down her vessel from her arm, and said, Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels.

    47 And questioning her, I said, Whose daughter are you? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, and Milcah his wife. Then I put the ring on her nose and the ornaments on her hands.

    48 And with bent head I gave worship and praise to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, by whom I had been guided in the right way, to get the daughter of my master's brother for his son.

  • Gen 24:16-20
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    16 She was a very beautiful girl, a virgin, who had never been touched by a man: and she went down to the spring to get water in her vessel.

    17 And the servant came running to her and said, Give me a little water from your vessel.

    18 And she said, Take a drink, my lord: and quickly letting down her vessel onto her hand, she gave him a drink.

    19 And having done so, she said, I will get water for your camels till they have had enough.

    20 And after putting the water from her vessel into the animals' drinking-place, she went quickly back to the spring and got water for all the camels.

  • Gen 24:13-14
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    13 See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water:

    14 Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.

  • Gen 24:28-31
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    28 So the girl went running and took the news of these things to her mother's house

    29 Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he came out quickly to the man at the water-spring.

    30 And when he saw the nose-ring and the ornaments on his sister's hands, and when she gave him word of what the man had said to her, then he went out to the man who was waiting with the camels by the water-spring.

    31 And he said to him, Come in, you on whom is the blessing of the Lord; why are you waiting outside? for I have made the house ready for you, and a place for the camels.

  • Gen 24:51-53
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    51 See, here is Rebekah: take her and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as the Lord has said.

    52 And at these words, Abraham's servant went down on his face and gave praise to the Lord.

    53 Then he took jewels of silver and jewels of gold and fair robes and gave them to Rebekah: and he gave things of value to her mother and her brother.

  • Gen 22:22-23
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    22 And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel.

    23 Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.

  • Gen 24:61-66
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    61 So Rebekah and her servant-women went with the man, seated on the camels; and so the servant took Rebekah and went on his way.

    62 Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.

    63 And when the evening was near, he went wandering out into the fields, and lifting up his eyes he saw camels coming.

    64 And when Rebekah, looking up, saw Isaac, she got down from her camel,

    65 And said to the servant, Who is that man coming to us through the field? And the servant said, It is my master: then she took her veil, covering her face with it.

    66 Then the servant gave Isaac the story of all he had done.

  • Gen 24:23-24
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    23 And said to her, Whose daughter are you? is there room in your father's house for us?

    24 And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, Nahor's wife.

  • Gen 24:10-11
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    10 And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.

    11 And he made the camels take their rest outside the town by the water-spring in the evening, at the time when the women came to get water.

  • Gen 22:20
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    20 After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;

  • Gen 24:57-59
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    57 And they said, We will send for the girl, and let her make the decision.

    58 And they sent for Rebekah and said to her, Are you ready to go with this man? And she said, I am ready.

    59 So they sent their sister Rebekah and her servant with Abraham's servant and his men.

  • Gen 29:9-10
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    9 While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she took care of them.

    10 Then when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, coming with Laban's sheep, he came near, and rolling the stone away from the mouth of the hole, he got water for Laban's flock.

  • Gen 24:4-5
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    4 But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.

    5 And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came?

  • Gen 24:40
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    40 And he said, The Lord, whom I have ever kept before me, will send his angel with you, who will make it possible for you to get a wife for my son from my relations and my father's house;

  • Gen 25:20
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    20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.

  • Gen 28:2
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    2 But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.