“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.”
Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean. The age (40) and the genealogy (Bethuel, Laban) situate the marriage precisely. The repetition of the Aramean connection is the text's reminder that the covenant family maintains its ties to Nahor's line as the source of covenant wives. The application: the story of Isaac's marriage in Genesis 24 is compressed into this single verse, which grounds the next generation of the covenant in the right genealogical and geographical context.
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