Genesis 24:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah(Milcah was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor).

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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; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
  • Gen 11:27 : 27 The Record of Terah This is the account of Terah.Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
  • Gen 22:20-23 : 20 After these things Abraham was told,“Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor– 21 Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel(the father of Aram), 22 Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.” 23 (Now Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
  • Gen 24:24 : 24 She said to him,“I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.
  • Gen 24:45 : 45 “Before I finished praying in my heart, along came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her,‘Please give me a drink.’
  • Exod 2:16 : 16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw water and fill the troughs in order to water their father’s flock.
  • Judg 6:36-40 : 36 Gideon said to God,“If you really intend to use me to deliver Israel, as you promised, then give me a sign as proof. 37 Look, I am putting a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece, and the ground around it is dry, then I will be sure that you will use me to deliver Israel, as you promised.” 38 The LORD did as he asked. When he got up the next morning, he squeezed the fleece, and enough dew dripped from it to fill a bowl. 39 Gideon said to God,“Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make only the fleece dry, while the ground around it is covered with dew.” 40 That night God did as he asked. Only the fleece was dry and the ground around it was covered with dew.
  • Ruth 2:2 : 2 One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi,“Let me go to the fields so I can gather grain behind whoever permits me to do so.” Naomi replied,“You may go, my daughter.”
  • Ruth 2:17 : 17 So she gathered grain in the field until evening. When she threshed what she had gathered, it came to about thirty pounds of barley!
  • Ps 34:15 : 15 The LORD pays attention to the godly and hears their cry for help.
  • Ps 65:2 : 2 You hear prayers; all people approach you.
  • Ps 145:18-19 : 18 The LORD is near all who cry out to him, all who cry out to him sincerely. 19 He satisfies the desire of his loyal followers; he hears their cry for help and delivers them.
  • Prov 31:27 : 27 Watching over the ways of her household, she would not eat the bread of idleness.
  • Isa 58:9 : 9 Then you will call out, and the LORD will respond; you will cry out, and he will reply,‘Here I am.’ You must remove the burdensome yoke from among you and stop pointing fingers and speaking sinfully.
  • Isa 65:24 : 24 Before they even call out, I will respond; while they are still speaking, I will hear.
  • Dan 9:20-23 : 20 Gabriel Gives to Daniel a Prophecy of Seventy Weeks While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my request before the LORD my God concerning his holy mountain– 21 yes, while I was still praying, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen previously in a vision, was approaching me in my state of extreme weariness, around the time of the evening offering. 22 He spoke with me, instructing me as follows:“Daniel, I have now come to impart understanding to you. 23 At the beginning of your requests a message went out, and I have come to convey it to you, for you are of great value in God’s sight. Therefore consider the message and understand the vision:
  • Gen 29:9 : 9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.
  • Gen 21:14 : 14 Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.

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  • Gen 24:42-48
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    42When I came to the spring today, I prayed,‘O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if you have decided to make my journey successful, may events unfold as follows:

    43Here I am, standing by the spring. When the young woman goes out to draw water, I’ll say,“Please give me a little water to drink from your jug.”

    44Then she will reply to me,“Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels too.” May that woman be the one whom the LORD has chosen for my master’s son.’

    45“Before I finished praying in my heart, along came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her,‘Please give me a drink.’

    46She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said,‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels water.

    47Then I asked her,‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied,‘The daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.’ I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

    48Then I bowed down and worshiped the LORD. I praised the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right path to find the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.

  • Gen 24:16-20
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    16Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever been physically intimate with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.

    17Abraham’s servant ran to meet her and said,“Please give me a sip of water from your jug.”

    18“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and quickly lowering her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink.

    19When she had done so, she said,“I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want.”

    20She quickly emptied her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw more water until she had drawn enough for all his camels.

  • Gen 24:13-14
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    13Here I am, standing by the spring, and the daughters of the people who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

    14I will say to a young woman,‘Please lower your jar so I may drink.’ May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply,‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master.”

  • Gen 24:28-31
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    28The young woman ran and told her mother’s household all about these things.

    29(Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring.

    30When he saw the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and the nose ring and heard his sister Rebekah say,“This is what the man said to me,” he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing by the camels near the spring.

    31Laban said to him,“Come, you who are blessed by the LORD! Why are you standing out here when I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?”

  • Gen 24:51-53
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    51Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become the wife of your master’s son, just as the LORD has decided.”

    52When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.

    53Then he brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother.

  • Gen 22:22-23
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    22Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”

    23(Now Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham’s brother Nahor.

  • Gen 24:61-66
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    61Then Rebekah and her female servants mounted the camels and rode away with the man. So Abraham’s servant took Rebekah and left.

    62Now Isaac came from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.

    63He went out to relax in the field in the early evening. Then he looked up and saw that there were camels approaching.

    64Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel

    65and asked Abraham’s servant,“Who is that man walking in the field toward us?”“That is my master,” the servant replied. So she took her veil and covered herself.

    66The servant told Isaac everything that had happened.

  • Gen 24:23-24
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    23“Whose daughter are you?” he asked.“Tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

    24She said to him,“I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.

  • Gen 24:10-11
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    10Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. He journeyed to the region of Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor.

    11He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.

  • Gen 22:20
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    20After these things Abraham was told,“Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor–

  • Gen 24:57-59
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    57Then they said,“We’ll call the girl and find out what she wants to do.”

    58So they called Rebekah and asked her,“Do you want to go with this man?” She replied,“I want to go.”

    59So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham’s servant and his men.

  • Gen 29:9-10
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    9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.

    10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

  • Gen 24:4-5
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    4You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac.”

    5The servant asked him,“What if the woman is not willing to come back with me to this land? Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”

  • Gen 24:40
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    40He answered,‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you. He will make your journey a success and you will find a wife for my son from among my relatives, from my father’s family.

  • Gen 25:20
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    20When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

  • Gen 28:2
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    2Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.