And Bethuel fathered Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
Genesis 28:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Thus Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Padan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau's mother. American Standard Version (1901) And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother. Common English Bible So Isaac sent Jacob off, and he traveled to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau’s mother. Catholic Public Domain Version And when Isaac had dismissed him, setting out, he went to Mesopotamia of Syria, to Laban, the son of Bethuel, the Syrian, the brother to Rebekah, his mother. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when Isaac had sent him away, he took his journey and went to Mesopotamia of Syria to Laban the son of Bathuel the Syrian, brother to Rebecca his mother. |
And Bethuel fathered Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they got up in the morning, he said, ‘Send me to my master.’
Isaac was forty years old when he took as his wife Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
So now, my son, listen to me. Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran,
Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father. Marry one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
He told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.
But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. ‘Watch yourself! ’ God warned him. ‘Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron ), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
Aram was your trading partner because of your numerous products. They exchanged turquoise, purple and embroidered cloth, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your merchandise.
Jacob fled to the territory of Aram. Israel worked to earn a wife; he tended flocks for a wife.
You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with a few people and resided there as a foreigner. There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.