Genesis 25:20

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Isaac was 40 years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

Cross References

Genesis 22:23

Bethuel is the father of Rebekah. Milcah had these eight sons by Abraham’s brother Nahor.

Genesis 24:15

Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, who was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.

Genesis 24:29

Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban.

Genesis 24:67

Isaac took her into his mother Sarah’s tent. He married Rebekah. She became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis 25:26

Afterwards, his brother was born with his hand holding on to Esau’s heel, and so he was named Jacob [Heel]. Isaac was 60 years old when they were born.

Genesis 27:43

So now, Son, obey me. Quick! Run away to my brother Laban in Haran.

Genesis 28:2

Quick! Go to Paddan Aram. Go to the home of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and get yourself a wife from there from the daughters of your uncle Laban.

Genesis 28:7

He also learned that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had left for Paddan Aram.

Genesis 31:18

He drove all his livestock ahead of him and took all the possessions that he had accumulated. He took his own livestock that he had accumulated in Paddan Aram and went back to his father Isaac in Canaan.

Genesis 31:20

Jacob also tricked Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was leaving.

Genesis 31:24

God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything at all to Jacob.”

Genesis 33:18

So having come from Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in Canaan. He camped within sight of the city.

Genesis 35:26

The sons of Leah’s slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These were Jacob’s sons, who were born in Paddan Aram.

Genesis 35:9

Then God appeared once more to Jacob after he came back from Paddan Aram, and he blessed him.

Genesis 46:15

These were the descendants of the sons Leah gave to Jacob in Paddan Aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. The total number of these sons and daughters was 33.

Luke 4:27

There were also many people with skin diseases in Israel in the prophet Elisha’s time. But God cured no one except Naaman from Syria.”

Deuteronomy 26:5

You will make this formal statement in the presence of the Lord your God: “My ancestors were wandering Arameans. There were only a few of them when they went to Egypt and lived as foreigners. But then they became a great, powerful, and large nation.