Genesis 22 · Verse 23

Genesis 22:23

And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
Genesis 22:23, King James Version

Genesis 22:23 in other translations

BSBAnd Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
WEBBethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
ASVAnd Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
YLTand Bethuel hath begotten Rebekah;' these eight hath Milcah borne to Nahor, Abraham's brother;
DARBY(And Bethuel begot Rebecca.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
BBEBethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.
WebsterAnd Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah bore to Nahor Abraham's brother.

What does Genesis 22:23 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 23 Bethuel begat Rebekah - Who afterward became the wife of Isaac.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 22:20-24

This chapter ends with some account of Nahor's family, who had settled at Haran. This seems to be given for the connexion which it had with the church of God. From thence Isaac and Jacob took wives; and before the account of those events this list is recorded. It shows that though Abraham saw his own family highly honoured with privileges, admitted into covenant, and blessed with the assurance of the promise, yet he…

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Genesis 22:23 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וּבְתוּאֵ֖לu.ve.tu.'Eland BethuelH1328
יָלַ֣דya.Ladhe fatheredH3205
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
רִבְקָ֑הriv.KahRebekahH7259
שְׁמֹנָ֥הshe.mo.Naheight [sons]H8083
אֵ֙לֶּה֙'e.lehtheseH428
יָלְדָ֣הyal.Dahshe boreH3205
מִלְכָּ֔הmil.KahMilcahH4435
לְנָח֖וֹרle.na.Chorto NahorH5152
אֲחִ֥י'a.Chi[the] brother ofH251
אַבְרָהָֽם\׃'av.ra.HamAbrahamH85

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Genesis 22:23

  • Genesis 24:15

    And 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 24:60

    And 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 24:24

    And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.

  • Genesis 28:5

    And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan–aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

  • Genesis 24:51

    Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master’s son’s wife, as the Lord hath spoken.

  • Genesis 28:2

    Arise, go to Padan–aram, 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 24:67

    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.

  • Genesis 25:20

    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.

  • Romans 9:10

    And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

  • Genesis 24:47

    And 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Bethuel.
24:15,24,47; 25:20; 28:2,5
Rebekah.
24:51,60,67; Ro 9:10
Rebecca.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Genesis 22:22

    And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.

  • Genesis 22:23

    And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

  • Genesis 22:24

    And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

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Genesis 22:23 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y Bethuel engendró á Rebeca. Estos ocho parió Milca á Nachôr, hermano de Abraham.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Or Bethuel engendra Rebecca. Milca enfanta ces huit à Nakhor, frère d’Abraham.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Diese acht gebar Milka dem Nahor, dem Bruder Abrahams.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
ac Bathuel, de quo nata est Rebecca: octo istos genuit Melcha, Nachor fratri Abrahæ.