KJV King James Version
And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
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Genesis 22:23
And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
WEB World English Bible
Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
ASV American Standard Version
And Bethuel begat Rebekah. These eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and Bethuel hath begotten Rebekah;’ these eight hath Milcah borne to Nahor, Abraham’s brother;
Surrounding context — Genesis 22
20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;
21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
24 And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
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וּבְתוּאֵ֖לH1328 · be.tu.elBethuelיָלַ֣דH3205 · ya.ladto begetאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]רִבְקָ֑הH7259 · riv.qahRebekahשְׁמֹנָ֥הH8083 · she.mo.neheightאֵ֙לֶּה֙H428 · el.lehtheseיָלְדָ֣הH3205 · ya.ladto begetמִלְכָּ֔הH4435 · mil.kahMilcahלְנָח֖וֹרH5152 · na.chorNahorאֲחִ֥יH251 · achbrother: male-siblingאַבְרָהָֽם׃H85 · av.ra.hamAbraham
Cross-references
Genesis 24:15And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.Genesis 24:60And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou [art] our sister, be thou [the mother] of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.Genesis 24:47And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter [art] thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.Romans 9:10And not only [this]; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac;Genesis 28:2Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.Genesis 25:20And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.Genesis 24:24And she said unto him, I [am] the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.Genesis 24:67And 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].Genesis 24:51Behold, Rebekah [is] before thee, take [her], and go, and let her be thy master’s son’s wife, as the LORD hath spoken.Genesis 28:5And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
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