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— Genesis 24:14. To his surprise, a young girl immediately came out and offered to draw water for him to drink, as well as water to fill the troughs for all his camels. Rebecca continued to draw water until all the camels were sated, proving her kind and generous nature and her suitability for entering Abraham's household.
Deborah (Hebrew: דְּבוֹרָה Deborah) appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wet nurse of Rebecca (Genesis 35:8). She is first mentioned by name in the Torah when she dies in a place called Allon Bachuth (אלון בכות), "Tree of Weepings" (Genesis 35:8), and is buried by Jacob, who is returning with his large family to Canaan.
Matred – Genesis, I Chronicles [126] [127] Medium of En Dor – 1 Samuel 28 [128] Mehetabel – daughter of Matred. Genesis; I Chronicles [126] [127] Merab – King Saul's oldest daughter. I Samuel [129] Me-Zahab – Mother of Matred, grandmother of Mehetabel."Genesis, I Chronicles" [130] [131] Michal – daughter of Saul and wife of David.
Noting that Genesis 24:55 reports that the next day, Rebekah's “brother and her mother said, ‘Let the maiden remain with us some ten days’” , the Rabbis asked: “Where was Bethuel?” The midrash concluded that Bethuel wished to hinder Rebekah's marriage, and so he was smitten during the night. (Genesis Rabbah 60:12.)
Milcah's son Bethuel moves to Padan-aram (also called Aram-Naharaim) and fathers Rebekah. [9] Milcah's granddaughter Rebekah eventually marries Milcah's cousin Isaac [10] and gave birth to Jacob [11] who became Israel. [12] There is a midrash that Milcah was the forebear of all prophets in the non-Jewish world. [13]
In the Authorized Version of the 1600s, the spelling Rebekah is used in the Old Testament and the Latin "Rebecca" (representing Greek Bible Ῥεβέκκα) was retained in the New Testament (see Romans 9:10). So the earlier western spelling is "Rebecca", but both spellings (Rebecca and Rebekah) are used in the influential King James Version.
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The burial place of the matriarch Rachel had a matzevah erected at the site according to Genesis 35:20; [6] [7] [8] the site was also mentioned in Muslim literature. [9] Although the site is considered by some scholars as unlikely to be the actual site of the grave [ 4 ] – several other sites to the north have been proposed – it is by far ...