Wife of Isaac · Patriarchs, c. 1900 BC
Rebekah in the Bible
Rebekah is found at a well in Haran and chooses to leave for a marriage she has never seen. Told before their birth that the elder of her twins would serve the younger, she engineers the blessing that sends Jacob into exile and Esau into fury.
Verses mentioning Rebekah
31 occurrences across 29 verses in the King James Version.
- Genesis 28:5
And 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.
Read in context - Genesis 29:12
And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.
Read in context - Genesis 35:8
But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth. Allonbachuth: that is, The oak of weeping
Read in context - Genesis 49:31
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
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