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KJB-1611[fn]And Bethuel begate Rebekah: these eight Milcah did beare to Nahor, Abrahams brother. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)
BshpsAnd Bethuel begat Rebecca. These eyght did Milcha beare to Nachor Abrahams brother. (And Bethuel begat Rebecca. These eyght did Milcha bear to Nachor Abrahams brother.)
GnvaAnd Bethuel begate Rebekah: these eight did Milcah beare to Nahor Abrahams brother. (And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight did Milcah bear to Nahor Abrahams brother. )
CvdlAnd Bethuel begat Rebecca. These eight dyd Milca beare vnto Nahor Abrahams brother. (And Bethuel begat Rebecca. These eight did Milca bear unto Nahor Abrahams brother.)
Wycland Jedlaf, and Batuhel, of whom Rebecca was borun; Melcha childide these eiyte to Nachor brother of Abraham. (and Yedlaf, and Batuhel, of whom Rebecca was borun; Melcha childide these eight to Nachor brother of Abraham.)
LuthBethuel aber zeugete Rebekka. Diese acht gebar Milka dem Nahor, Abrahams Bruder. (Bethuel but zeugete Rebekka. This/These acht gebar Milka to_him Nahor, Abrahams brother.)
ClVgac Bathuel, de quo nata est Rebecca: octo istos genuit Melcha, Nachor fratri Abrahæ. (ac Bathuel, about quo nata it_is Rebecca: octo istos genuit Melcha, Nachor fratri Abrahæ. )
22:20-24 A report came from the east that Abraham’s brother Nahor (see 11:27-29) was flourishing. The actors in the following narrative are introduced here.
Some translations put this sentence in parentheses to show that it is a separate comment by the author and not part of the previous quote. Do what is best in your language. Also, see how you translated fathered in Gen 11:27. Alternate translation: “Bethuel was the father of Rebekah.”
Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.
