Genesis 24:59

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 35:8 : 8 (Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel; thus it was named Oak of Weeping.)
  • Num 11:12 : 12 Did I conceive this entire people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me,‘Carry them in your arms, as a foster father bears a nursing child,’ to the land which you swore to their fathers?
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For we never appeared with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed– God is our witness–
  • Gen 24:50 : 50 Then Laban and Bethuel replied,“This is the LORD’s doing. Our wishes are of no concern.
  • Gen 24:53 : 53 Then 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 24:60 : 60 They blessed Rebekah with these words:“Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands! May your descendants possess the strongholds of their enemies.”

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  • Gen 24:60-61
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    60They blessed Rebekah with these words:“Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands! May your descendants possess the strongholds of their enemies.”

    61Then Rebekah and her female servants mounted the camels and rode away with the man. So Abraham’s servant took Rebekah and left.

  • Gen 24:51-58
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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.

    54After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. When they got up in the morning, he said,“Let me leave now so I can return to my master.”

    55But Rebekah’s brother and her mother replied,“Let the girl stay with us a few more days, perhaps ten. Then she can go.”

    56But he said to them,“Don’t detain me– the LORD has granted me success on my journey. Let me leave now so I may return to my master.”

    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.”

  • Gen 24:14-16
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    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.”

    15Before 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).

    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.

  • Gen 24:64-66
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    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 24:28-30
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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.

  • Gen 24:10-12
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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.

    12He prayed,“O LORD, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. Be faithful to my master Abraham.

  • 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 24:34-35
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    34“I am the servant of Abraham,” he began.

    35“The LORD has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. The Lord has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

  • Gen 24:18-20
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    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 28:5
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    5So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

  • Gen 24:44-46
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    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.

  • Gen 22:19
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    19Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set out together for Beer Sheba where Abraham stayed.

  • Gen 24:38-39
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    38but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’

    39But I said to my master,‘What if the woman does not want to go with me?’

  • Gen 26:31
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    31Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms.

  • Gen 12:20
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    20Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.

  • Gen 25:6
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    6But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them off to the east, away from his son Isaac.

  • Gen 24:48
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    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 24:24
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    24She said to him,“I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.

  • Gen 45:24
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    24Then he sent his brothers on their way and they left. He said to them,“As you travel don’t be overcome with fear.”

  • Gen 24:8
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    8But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, you will be free from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!”