Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

• 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."