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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.

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ASV

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

KJV

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.

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18 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיְהִ֤יvay.Hiand he wasH1961 →
יִצְחָק֙yitz.ChakIsaacH3327 →
בֶּן־ben-a son ofH1121 →
אַרְבָּעִ֣ים'ar.ba.'ImfortyH705 →
שָׁנָ֔הsha.Nahyear[s]H8141 →
בְּקַחְתּ֣וֹbe.kach.Towhen took heH3947 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
רִבְקָ֗הriv.KahRebekahH7259 →
בַּת־bat-[the] daughter ofH1323 →
בְּתוּאֵל֙be.tu.'ElBethuelH1328 →
הָֽאֲרַמִּ֔יha.'a.ra.Mithe ArameanH761 →
מִפַּדַּ֖ןmi.pa.Danfrom PaddanH6307 →
אֲרָ֑ם'a.RamAramH758 →
אֲח֛וֹת'a.Chot[the] sister ofH269 →
לָבָ֥ןla.VanLabanH3837 →
הָאֲרַמִּ֖יha.'a.ra.Mithe ArameanH761 →
ל֥וֹlofor <the> himself
לְאִשָּֽׁה׃le.'i.Shahto a wifeH802 →

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Genesis 24:29Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.Genesis 28:2“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.Genesis 24:67And 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 22:23And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.Genesis 33:18After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.Deuteronomy 26:5and 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 31:24But 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 35:26And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.Genesis 31:18and 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 31:20Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.Genesis 28:5–6So 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 48:7Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).Genesis 24:1By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.Genesis 29:1Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.Genesis 46:15These are the sons of Leah born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. The total number of sons and daughters was thirty-three.Luke 4:27And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. Yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”Genesis 35:9After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.

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