Rebekah in the Bible

Meaning: fat; fattened; a quarrel appeased

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And not only that, but also Rebekah received a promise when she became pregnant by one man, our ancestor Isaac.

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The girl was very beautiful, a virgin, and no man had had relations with her; and she went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.


Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord answered him and Rebekah his wife conceived.


and they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor, came out with her jar on her shoulder.

and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.

There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah, there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah—

When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “my wife,” thinking, “the men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is beautiful.”

Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of living because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, saying,


Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son. And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. She also gave the savory food and the bread, which she had made, to her son Jacob.


And they said, "We will call the girl and consult her wishes." Then they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" And she said, "I will go."


Again she said to him, “We have plenty of both straw and feed, and room to lodge in.”


She said to the servant, “Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?” And the servant said, “He is my master.” Then she took her veil and covered herself.


Now when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will draw also for your camels until they have finished drinking.”


The girl was very beautiful, a virgin, and no man had had relations with her; and she went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.


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