Genesis 25:20
Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
19These also are the generations of Isaac the son of Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac:
Cross References
Genesis 24:29And Rebecca had a brother named Laban, who went out in haste to the man, to the well.
Genesis 27:43Now therefore, my son, hear my voice: arise and flee to Laban my brother to Haran:
Genesis 31:18And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac his father to the land of Chanaan.
Genesis 31:24And he saw in a dream God saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.
Deuteronomy 26:5And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: The Syrian pursued my father, who went down into Egypt, and sojourned there in a very small number, and grew into a nation great and strong and of an infinite 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 →