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22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”

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

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15 (A)He had scarcely finished speaking when Rebekah—who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor—came out with a jug on her shoulder.

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24 She answered: “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.

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20 Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram[a] and the sister of Laban the Aramean.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 25:20 Paddan-aram: the name used by the Priestly tradition for the northwest region of Mesopotamia, between the Habur and the Euphrates rivers. In Assyrian, padana is a road or a garden, and Aram refers to the people or the land of the Arameans. The equivalent geographical term in the Yahwist source is Aram Naharaim, “Aram between two rivers.”

Go now to Paddan-aram, to the home of your mother’s father Bethuel, and there choose a wife for yourself from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.(A)

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Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way; he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.(A)

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