Genesis 22:23
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.”
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“And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and Bethuel hath begotten Rebekah;' these eight hath Milcah borne to Nahor, Abraham's brother;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 22:23 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 24:15Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.
- Genesis 24:24She replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”
- Genesis 24:47Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
- Genesis 24:51Rebekah is here before you. Take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, just as the LORD has decreed.”
- Genesis 24:60And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
- Genesis 24:67And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
- Genesis 25:20and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
- Genesis 28:2“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
- Genesis 28:5So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
- Romans 9:10Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.
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