Genesis 22:22
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22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”
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Genesis 22:23
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23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
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Genesis 24:15
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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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Genesis 24:24
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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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Genesis 25:20
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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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- 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.”
Genesis 28:2
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2 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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Genesis 28:5
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5 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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