Genesis 24:15

New American Bible - revised edition

He had scarcely finished speaking when Rebekah—who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor—came out with a jug on her shoulder.

Cross References

Genesis 11:27

These are the descendants of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran begot Lot.

Genesis 11:29

Abram and Nahor took wives; the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.

Genesis 21:14

Early the next morning Abraham got some bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. Then, placing the child on her back, he sent her away. As she roamed aimlessly in the wilderness of Beer-sheba,

Genesis 24:14

if I say to a young woman, ‘Please lower your jug, that I may drink,’ and she answers, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels, too,’ then she is the one whom you have decided upon for your servant Isaac. In this way I will know that you have dealt graciously with my master.”

Genesis 24:24

She answered: “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.

Genesis 24:45

“I had scarcely finished saying this to myself when Rebekah came out with a jug on her shoulder. After she went down to the spring and drew water, I said to her, ‘Please let me have a drink.’

Genesis 25:20

Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 29:5

Then he asked them, “Do you know Laban, son of Nahor?” “We do,” they answered.

Genesis 29:9

While he was still talking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was the one who tended them.

Psalm 34:15

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Psalm 65:2

To you we owe our hymn of praise, O God on Zion; To you our vows must be fulfilled,

Exodus 2:16

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Proverbs 31:27

She watches over the affairs of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Isaiah 58:9

Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer, you shall cry for help, and he will say: “Here I am!” If you remove the yoke from among you, the accusing finger, and malicious speech;

Isaiah 65:24

Before they call, I will answer; while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

Ruth 2:17

She gleaned in the field until evening, and when she beat out what she had gleaned it came to about an ephah of barley,

Ruth 2:2

Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “I would like to go and glean grain in the field of anyone who will allow me.” Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”

1 Samuel 9:11

As they were going up the path to the city, they met some young women coming out to draw water and they asked them, “Is the seer in town?”