Genesis 24:67

Translations

Modern

And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.

Traditional

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Literal

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

Latin

Qui introduxit eam in tabernaculum Saræ matris suæ, et accepit eam uxorem: et in tantum dilexit eam, ut dolorem, qui ex morte matris ejus acciderat, temperaret.

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English

And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.

Notes

Genesis 24:67

Isaac was 40 years old when he married Rebekah (25:20), so Abraham was 140 (21:5).

Genesis 24:1–67

Isaac's marriage to Rebekah made it certain that God's plan would continue for the next generation. God showed his covenant faithfulness by working through his faithful people (24:12, 27, 49).

Theme notes and profiles

Abraham Isaac Rebekah Biblical Marriage Symbolic Numbers

Related verses

Ephesians 5:22–33
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
Song of Solomon 8:2
I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
Genesis 37:35
All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
Isaiah 54:1–5
“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
Genesis 29:18
Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
2 Corinthians 11:1–2
I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.
Genesis 18:9–10
“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked. “There, in the tent,” he replied.
Genesis 18:6
So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”
Genesis 23:1–2
Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old.
Genesis 38:12
After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
1 Thessalonians 4:13
Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.
Genesis 25:20
…and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

People

Isaac: Son of Abraham; father of Jacob and Esau Rebekah: Wife of Isaac; mother of Jacob and Esau Sarah: Wife of Abraham; mother of Isaac

Glossary

Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (New Testament) Ebla Tablets Genesis, Book of Isaac Midian, Midianite Patriarchs, Period of the Rebecca, Rebekah

Topics

Husband: Faithful: Isaac Husbands: Good: Isaac Incest: Isaac with Rebekah Lovers: Isaac for Rebekah Marriage: Isaac and Rebekah Rebekah (Rebecca): Becomes Isaac's Wife Servants: Good: Eliezer Tent: Women had Separate Tents from Men Tents: Separate, for Females of the Family Wife: Beloved, by Isaac Woman: Generally Lived in a Separated Apartment or Tent Women: had Separate Apartments in Dwellings

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