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Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milkah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
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Isaac and Rebekah
Abraham was now very old, and the Lord had blessed him in every way.
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Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milkah, who was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.
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Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he hurried out to the man at the spring.
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As soon as he had seen the nose ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and had heard Rebekah tell what the man said to her, he went out to the man and found him standing by the camels near the spring.
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“Before I finished praying in my heart, Rebekah came out, with her jar on her shoulder. She went down to the spring and drew water, and I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’
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Here is Rebekah; take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has directed.”
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Then the servant brought out gold and silver jewelry and articles of clothing and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave costly gifts to her brother and to her mother.
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So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” “I will go,” she said.
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So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.
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And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you increase to thousands upon thousands; may your offspring possess the cities of their enemies.”
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Then Rebekah and her attendants got ready and mounted the camels and went back with the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.
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Rebekah also looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel
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Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
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and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
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Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
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After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.
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Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”
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When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
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They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
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Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back,
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Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,
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Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin.
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Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.
