Genesis 25:20

New Century Version

When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, who came from Northwest Mesopotamia. She was Bethuel’s daughter and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Cross References

Genesis 22:23

Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah was the mother of these eight sons, and Nahor, Abraham’s brother, was the father.

Genesis 24:15

Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, came out of the city. (Bethuel was the son of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham’s brother.) Rebekah was carrying her water jar on her shoulder.

Genesis 24:29

She had a brother named Laban, who ran out to Abraham’s servant, who was still at the spring.

Genesis 24:67

Then Isaac brought Rebekah into the tent of Sarah, his mother, and she became his wife. Isaac loved her very much, and so he was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis 25:26

When the second baby was born, he was holding on to Esau’s heel, so that baby was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

Genesis 27:43

So, my son, do what I say. My brother Laban is living in Haran. Go to him at once!

Genesis 28:2

Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, in Northwest Mesopotamia. Laban, your mother’s brother, lives there. Marry one of his daughters.

Genesis 28:7

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Northwest Mesopotamia.

Genesis 31:18

and they began their journey back to Isaac, his father, in the land of Canaan. All the flocks of animals that Jacob owned walked ahead of them. He carried everything with him that he had gotten while he lived in Northwest Mesopotamia.

Genesis 31:20

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

Genesis 31:24

That night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and said, “Be careful! Do not say anything to Jacob, good or bad.”

Genesis 33:18

Jacob left Northwest Mesopotamia and arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan. There he camped east of the city.

Genesis 35:26

And he had two sons by Leah’s slave girl Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These are Jacob’s sons who were born in Northwest Mesopotamia.

Genesis 35:9

When Jacob came back from Northwest Mesopotamia, God appeared to him again and blessed him.

Genesis 46:15

These are the sons of Leah and Jacob born in Northwest Mesopotamia, in addition to his daughter Dinah. There were thirty-three persons in this part of Jacob’s family.

Luke 4:27

And there were many with skin diseases living in Israel during the time of the prophet Elisha. But none of them were healed, only Naaman, who was from the country of Syria.”

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then you shall announce before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with only a few people, but they became a great, powerful, and large nation there.