Genesis 25:20
who, when he was forty years old, took Rebekah, the sister of Laban, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian from Mesopotamia, as a wife.
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19Likewise, these are the generations of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham conceived Isaac,
Cross References
Genesis 24:29Now Rebekah had a brother, named Laban, who went out quickly to the man, where the spring was.
Genesis 27:43Therefore, now my son, listen to my voice. Rise up and flee to my brother Laban, in Haran.
Genesis 31:18And he took all his substance and flocks, and whatever he had acquired in Mesopotamia, and he journeyed to his father Isaac, in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 31:24And he saw in a dream, God saying to him, “Beware that you not speak anything harsh against Jacob.”
Deuteronomy 26:5And you shall say, in the sight of the Lord your God: ‘The Syrian pursued my father, who descended into Egypt, and he sojourned there in a very small number, and he increased into a great and strong nation and into an innumerable multitude.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 25:20-29
Birth of Esau and Jacob. ( b. c. 1837.) 19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac: 20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. 21 And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire… Read the whole commentary →