Betu'el became the father of Rivka. These eight Milkah bore to Nachor, Avraham's brother.
Genesis 28:5 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Yitzchak sent Ya`akov away. He went to Paddan-Aram 1 to Lavan, son of Betu'el the Syrian, Rivka's brother, Ya`akov's and Esav's mother. 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. |
Betu'el became the father of Rivka. These eight Milkah bore to Nachor, Avraham's brother.
They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, *Send me away to my master.*
Yitzchak was forty years old when he took Rivka, the daughter of Betu'el the Syrian of Paddan-Aram 1, the sister of Lavan the Syrian, to be his wife.
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Lavan, my brother, in Charan.
Arise, go to Paddan-Aram 1, to the house of Betu'el your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Lavan, your mother's brother.
Then Ya`akov went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
Ya`akov told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rivka's son. She ran and told her father.
God came to Lavan, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, *Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Ya`akov either good or bad.*
Ya`akov came to Yitzchak his father, to Mamre, to Kiryat-Arba (which is Chevron), where Avraham and Yitzchak lived as foreigners.
Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks: they traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.
Ya`akov fled into the country of Aram, and Yisra'el served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.