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The Sons of Nahor

Genesis 22:23

In 11 translations

BSB
And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
KJV
And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.Rebekah: Gr. Rebecca
WEB
Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
ASV
And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
LSV
and Bethuel has begotten Rebekah”; Milcah has borne these eight to Nahor, Abraham’s brother;
YLT
and Bethuel hath begotten Rebekah;' these eight hath Milcah borne to Nahor, Abraham's brother;
DBY
(And Bethuel begot Rebecca.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
DRC
And Bathuel, of whom was born Rebecca: These eight did Melcha bear to Nachor Abraham’s brother.
GNV
And Bethuel begate Rebekah: these eight did Milcah beare to Nahor Abrahams brother.
JPS
And Bethuel begot Rebekah; these eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
LXXE
these are eight sons, which Melcha bore to Nachor the brother of Abraam.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וּבְתוּאֵ֖ל יָלַ֣ד אֶת־רִבְקָ֑ה שְׁמֹנָ֥ה אֵ֨לֶּה֙ יָלְדָ֣ה מִלְכָּ֔ה לְנָח֖וֹר אֲחִ֥י אַבְרָהָֽם׃
LXX-Br
Βαθουὴλ δὲ ἐγέννησε τὴν Ῥεβέκκαν. ὀκτὼ οὗτοι υἱοὶ, οὓς ἔτεκε Μελχὰ τῷ Ναχὼρ τῷ ἀδελφῷ Ἁβραάμ.

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  • The Binding of Isaac (the Akedah) God tests Abraham by asking him to offer Isaac, the son of the promise, as a burnt offering. Abraham obeys, Isaac carries the wood, and at t…

Cross-references most cited first

  • 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 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.
  • Romans 9:10Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.
  • 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 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 24:47Then 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 24:67And 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 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.

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