Rebekah
Rebekah is Bethuel's daughter who becomes Isaac's wife; Genesis 27 records her scheme to secure Isaac's blessing for Jacob, and Genesis 35 notes the death of her nurse Deborah near Bethel.
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- First mention
- Genesis 22:23
Family
Parents
Siblings
Scripture references
- Genesis 22:23
(and Bethuel was the father of Rebekah).
- Genesis 24:18
She replied, 'Drink, my lord,' and quickly lowered her pitcher...
- Genesis 24:58
They called Rebekah and asked her, 'Will you go with this man?' She replied, 'I will.'
- Genesis 24:67
Then Isaac took her into his tent. He married Rebekah...
- Genesis 25:20
Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah the daughter of Bethuel...
- Genesis 25:23
There are two nations in your womb... the elder will serve the younger.
- Genesis 25:28
Rebekah preferred Jacob.
- Genesis 26:8
Abimelech the Philistine king happened to look out of the window and saw Isaac fondling his wife Rebekah.
- Genesis 26:35
These were a bitter disappointment to Isaac and Rebekah.
- Genesis 27:6
Rebekah said to her son Jacob, 'I have just heard your father saying to your brother Esau,
- Genesis 27:9
Go to the flock and bring me back two good kids, so that I can make the kind of special dish your father likes.
- Genesis 27:15
Rebekah took her elder son Esau's best clothes, which she had at home, and dressed her younger son Jacob in them,
- Genesis 27:42
When the words of Esau, her elder son, were repeated to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, 'Look, your brother Esau means to take revenge and kill you.'
- Genesis 27:43
Now, son, listen to me; go at once and take refuge with my brother Laban in Haran.
- Genesis 27:46
Rebekah said to Isaac, 'The Hittite women sicken me to death. If Jacob were to marry a Hittite woman like these, one of the local women, what would there be left in life for me?'
- Genesis 35:8
Deborah, who had been Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried below Bethel, under the oak tree; so they named it the Oak of Tears.