Thematic Bible: Rebekah


Thematic Bible



Now the girl was very beautiful, a young woman who had not known a man intimately. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up.




They made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

Before he had finished speaking, there was Rebekah—daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor—coming with a jug on her shoulder.

Isaac was 40 years old when he took as his wife Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried there, Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried there, and I buried Leah there.

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 will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is a beautiful woman.”

So Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m sick of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob marries a Hittite woman like one of them, what good is my life?”

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Listen! I heard your father talking with your brother Esau. He said,


Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were there at the house, and had her younger son Jacob wear them. She put the goatskins on his hands and the smooth part of his neck. Then she handed the delicious food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.


So they said, "Let's call the girl and ask her opinion." They called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She replied, "I will go."


She also said to him, “We have plenty of straw and feed and a place to spend the night.”


and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?”

The servant answered, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself.


When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I’ll also draw water for your camels until they have had enough to drink.”


Now the girl was very beautiful, a young woman who had not known a man intimately. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up.


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