Genesis 25:20

Translations

Modern

…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.

Traditional

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan–aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

Literal

…and Isaac was a son of forty years when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean from Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to him as wife.

Latin

…qui cum quadraginta esset annorum, duxit uxorem Rebeccam filiam Bathuelis Syri de Mesopotamia, sororem Laban.

Original

Hebrew

English

…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.

Notes

Genesis 25:19–20

Isaac … married Rebekah: Isaac’s marriage connected him and his family more closely to Abraham’s relatives. If he had married a Canaanite woman, the faith of the covenant could have been endangered by these corrupt people and their mixed worship.

Genesis 25:19–26

Jacob’s struggle to be greater than his brother began before the twins were born (see Hosea 12:3).

Theme notes and profiles

Arameans Isaac Jacob Rebekah Symbolic Numbers

Events

Isaac Marries Rebekah

Related verses

Genesis 24:29
Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.
Genesis 24:67
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.
Genesis 22:23
And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
Deuteronomy 26:5
…and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
Genesis 31:24
But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
Genesis 28:5–6
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Genesis 31:20
Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
Genesis 31:18
…and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.
Genesis 35:9
After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
Luke 4:27
And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. Yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”

Parallels

Malachi 1:1–5 Romans 9:6–29

People

Bethuel: Father of Rebekah, Isaac's wife Isaac: Son of Abraham; father of Jacob and Esau Laban: Brother of Rebekah; father of Leah and Rachel Rebekah: Wife of Isaac; mother of Jacob and Esau

Places

Paddan: The homeland of the patriarchs in Mesopotamia

Glossary

Bethuel (Person) Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (New Testament) Birthright Ebla Tablets Genesis, Book of Laban (Person) Mishma Nathanael Patriarchs, Period of the Rebecca, Rebekah Syria, Syrians

Topics

Bethuel: Son of Nahor, Father of Rebekah Esau: Birth of Isaac: The Miraculous Son of Abraham is Provided a Wife from Among his Relatives Isaac: The Miraculous Son of Abraham: Esau and Jacob Born To Mesopotamia: People Who Lived In, Called Syrians Rebekah (Rebecca): Becomes Isaac's Wife Syria: During the Time of Abraham It Seems to Have Embraced the Region Between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River Syria: Including Padan-Aram Syria: Originally Included Mesopotamia

Genesis 25:20

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