Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
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Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
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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.
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And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean, of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.
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Passages linked to Genesis 25:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 24:29 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
- Genesis 24:67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
- Genesis 22:23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
- Genesis 31:24 God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
- Deuteronomy 26:5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.
- Genesis 28:5-6 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother. Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;”
- Genesis 31:18 and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 31:20 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
- Genesis 35:9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
- Luke 4:27 There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, Syrian of Mesopotamia.
Or, Syrian of Mesopotamia.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when…
Gen 25:20 And 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.
Ver. 20. And Isaac was forty years old.] He was not overhasty to marry in the heat of his youth: but by hard labour, ardent prayers, and pious meditations, kept under his body, and brought it into subjection, as St Paul likewise did. {1Co 9:27} "We are not debtors to the flesh"; {Rom 8:12} we owe it nothing but stripes, nothing but the blue eye, that the apostle gave it.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram; either of the country…
Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram; either of the country of Syria, as it is called, Hos 12:12; or rather, Padan of Syria; or, as the Septuagint and Chaldee render it, Mesopotamia of Syria. For that Parian is the proper name of a place, may be gathered from Gen 48:7, and it is so called from its situation between two rivers, for Padan signifies a pair or two.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Isaac was forty years old when he took…
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife,.... Which was three years after the death of his mother; Isaac was born when she was ninety, and therefore must be thirty seven when she died. The Jews say Rebekah was but fourteen, though it is highly probable she was older; who is described as
the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian, of Padanaram; so called to distinguish it from other Arams, as Aram of Damascus, &c. this seems to be the same with Aram Naharaim, or Mesopotamia, which lay between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris; for Padan, as Jarchi observes from the Targum, signifies two; but rather, as he, and Aben Ezra, and others say, Padan in the Arabic language signifies a field; it here intends the field or country of Syria, as in Hos 12:12. Haran, in Syria or Mesopotamia, was the place where Bethuel and Laban lived, see Gen 28:5. Some traces of Padan in Mesopotamia are thought to be in the cities of Aphphadana and Aphadana, which are placed by Ptolemy (z) in that country. Moreover, Rebekah is also said to be
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the sister to Laban the Syrian, the son of Bethuel, who are both called Syrians, because they now lived in Syria: otherwise they were originally Chaldees, being descended from Nahor the brother of Abraham, who both were of Ur of the Chaldees; so Jacob is called a Syrian, because he lived long in the same place, Deu 26:5.
(z) Geograph. l. 5. c. 18.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain And Isaac was forty years old - Not much…
And Isaac was forty years old - Not much is related concerning Isaac, but what had reference to his father, while he lived, and to his sons afterward; for Isaac seems not to have been a man of action, nor much tried, but to have spent his day, in quietness and silence.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Gen 25:20. And Isaac was forty years old —…
Gen 25:20. And Isaac was forty years old — Not much is related concerning Isaac, but what had reference to his father, while he lived, and to his sons afterward; for Isaac seems not to have been a man of action, nor to have been much tried, but to have spent his days in quietness and silence.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 20. forty years old] P gives the age of…
20. forty years old] P gives the age of Isaac at the time of his marriage with Rebekah, thirty-five years before Abraham’s death (Gen_25:8).
Bethuel] P makes no mention here of Bethuel’s being son of Nahor, the brother of Terah. The genealogy of J in Gen_22:22 is ignored.
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the Syrian] Heb. Aramean, as in Gen_28:5. Aram is mentioned in Gen_10:22-23 (P), as the fifth of the sons of Shem.
Paddan-aram] This is the name given in the P narrative for the country described as Aram-naharaim by J. See note on Gen_24:10. Cf. Gen_28:2; Gen_28:5-7, Gen_31:18, Gen_35:9; Gen_35:26, Gen_46:15, Gen_48:7 (Paddan), all from P. The word Paddan is Aramaic, and means probably “the field,” modern Arabic feddân (= “acre”). In Assyrian padanu = “way” or “field,” like Haran (Gen_11:32). According to Hos_12:12, “Jacob fled into the field of Aram,” where “field” is the Heb. sâdeh, and denotes Haran, the country E. of Euphrates.
21–34 (J, E). This passage contains two short narratives, (1) the birth of Jacob and Esau (Gen_25:21-26), (2) the sale of Esau’s birthright (27–34).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And Isaac was forty years old when he took…
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the valuable chronological fact here stated for the first time proves that Isaac was married three years after his mother"s death (cf. Gen_23:1) the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. (vide on Gen_22:23 Gen_24:29) Though a descendant of Arphaxad, (Gen_10:24) Bethuel is styled a Syrian, or Aramaean, from the country of his adoption. On Padanaram vide Gen_24:10.
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