Genesis 24:15

World English Bible (2000)

It happened, before he had finished 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 on her shoulder.

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  • Gen 11:29 : 29 Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.
  • Gen 11:27 : 27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.
  • Gen 22:20-23 : 20 It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor: 21 Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel." 23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
  • Gen 24:24 : 24 She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."
  • Gen 24:45 : 45 Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'
  • Exod 2:16 : 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
  • Judg 6:36-40 : 36 Gideon said to God, "If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken, 37 behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken." 38 It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. 39 Gideon said to God, "Don't let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew." 40 God did so that night: for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
  • Ruth 2:2 : 2 Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor." She said to her, "Go, my daughter."
  • Ruth 2:17 : 17 So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
  • Ps 34:15 : 15 Yahweh's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
  • Ps 65:2 : 2 You who hear prayer, to you all men will come.
  • Ps 145:18-19 : 18 Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. 19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
  • Prov 31:27 : 27 She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.
  • Isa 58:9 : 9 Then you shall call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, 'Here I am.' "If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly;
  • Isa 65:24 : 24 It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
  • Dan 9:20-23 : 20 While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God; 21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering. 22 He instructed me, and talked with me, and said, Daniel, I am now come forth to give you wisdom and understanding. 23 At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went forth, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.
  • Gen 29:9 : 9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.
  • Gen 21:14 : 14 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

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  • Gen 24:42-48
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    90%

    42 I came this day to the spring, and said, 'Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go--

    43 behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, "Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,"

    44 and she will tell me, "Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,"--let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master's son.'

    45 Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'

    46 She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink.

    47 I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.

    48 I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.

  • Gen 24:16-20
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    16 The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.

    17 The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher."

    18 She said, "Drink, my lord." She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink.

    19 When she had done giving him drink, she said, "I will also draw for your camels, until they have done drinking."

    20 She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.

  • Gen 24:13-14
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    86%

    13 Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

    14 Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,' and she will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,'--let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master."

  • Gen 24:28-31
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    28 The young lady ran, and told her mother's house about these words.

    29 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

    30 It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

    31 He said, "Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels."

  • Gen 24:51-53
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    51 Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has spoken."

    52 It happened that when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.

    53 The servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.

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

    23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

  • Gen 24:61-66
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    61 Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

    62 Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.

    63 Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.

    64 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel.

    65 She said to the servant, "Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." She took her veil, and covered herself.

    66 The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.

  • Gen 24:23-24
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    23 and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?"

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

  • Gen 24:10-11
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    10 The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master's with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

    11 He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

  • Gen 22:20
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    20 It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

  • Gen 24:57-59
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    57 They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her."

    58 They called Rebekah, and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go."

    59 They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham's servant, and his men.

  • Gen 29:9-10
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    76%

    9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.

    10 It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

  • Gen 24:4-5
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    4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."

    5 The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"

  • Gen 24:40
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    40 He said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of 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 Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

  • Gen 28:2
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    2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.