And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
Parallel translations
- WEB Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
- BSB And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
- NKJV And Bethuel begot Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
- NASB and it was Bethuel who fathered Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
- NLT (Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) In addition to these eight sons from Milcah,
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Quick answer
Bethuel becomes the father of Rebekah, named among Milcah's eight sons borne to Nahor. This singles out Rebekah, Isaac's future wife.
Overview
The genealogy reaches its goal by naming Rebekah, the woman through whom the covenant line will pass. Her introduction here, before chapter 24, signals God's providential preparation. The promised offspring will continue through this carefully noted lineage.
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Cross-references · 10
- Gen 24:15And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
- Gen 24:51Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master’s son’s wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
- Gen 28:2Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
- Gen 28:5And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
- Gen 24:24And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
- Gen 24:47And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
- Gen 25:20And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
- Gen 24:60And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
- Gen 24:67And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
- Rom 9:10And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
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