Genesis 25:20

World English Bible (2000)

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 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
  • Gen 22:23 : 23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
  • Gen 28:5-6 : 5 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, 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 there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"
  • Gen 31:18 : 18 and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
  • Gen 31:20 : 20 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn't tell him that he was running away.
  • Gen 31:24 : 24 God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."
  • Gen 35:9 : 9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
  • Deut 26:5 : 5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, "A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
  • Luke 4:27 : 27 There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."

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  • Gen 28:1-2
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    1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

    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.

  • Gen 28:5-6
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    5 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, 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 there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"

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

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

  • Gen 25:19
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    19 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

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

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

    35 They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.

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

  • Gen 24:51
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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."

  • Gen 24:14-16
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    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."

    15 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.

    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.

  • Gen 27:46
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    46 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"

  • Gen 26:6-8
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    6 Isaac lived in Gerar.

    7 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."

    8 It happened, 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 caressing Rebekah, his wife.

  • Gen 24:29-30
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    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.

  • Gen 21:5
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    5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

  • Gen 11:29
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    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 24:64
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    64 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel.

  • Gen 28:9
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    9 Esau went to 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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    27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

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

  • Gen 24:61
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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.

  • Gen 22:23
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    23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

  • Gen 20:12
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    12 Besides, 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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    21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 25:26
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    26 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

  • Gen 24:38
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    38 but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'