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Rebecca [a] (/ r ɪ ˈ b ɛ k ə /) appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical tradition, Rebecca's father was Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram, also called Aram-Naharaim. [3] Rebecca's brother was Laban the Aramean, and she was the granddaughter of Milcah and Nahor, the brother ...
By the well outside of Nahor in Aram-Naharaim, the servant met Bethuel's daughter Rebecca. The servant told Rebecca's household his good fortune in meeting Bethuel's daughter, Abraham's relative. Laban and Bethuel answer, "'The matter was decreed by יהוה; we cannot speak to you bad or good.
Abraham's brother Nahor settled in the area. Abraham's nephew Bethuel, son of Nahor and Milcah, and father of Laban and Rebecca, lived in Padan-aram. Abraham sent his steward back there to find a wife among his kinfolk for his son, Isaac. The steward found Rebecca. [4] Isaac and Rebecca's son Jacob was sent there to avoid the wrath of his ...
Nahor married the daughter of his brother Haran, Milcah, his niece . They may all have been born and raised in the city of Ur: the biblical account states that "Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans" (Genesis 11:28). In the King James Version, Nahor is also referred to as Nachor (Joshua 24:2).
The RIHS site terms Rebecca's Briggs origins as “murky at best” and said some believe that John Briggs, Thomas Cornell Jr.'s accuser, was Rebecca's brother by blood, others believe they were ...
Rebecca’s brother Ronnie Caffey also gave a statement at the sentencing hearing saying, “Everyone who knew her loved her. She was a mother to me when I was young, as she was to so many of us ...
She is identified as the grandmother of Rebecca in the Book of Genesis, but some scholars believe that Milcah may have originally been Rebecca ' s mother. They have argued that Bethuel, who is identified as Rebecca's father by the priestly source, was a later addition to the text, and that Rebecca was the daughter of Milcah and Nahor.
In 1981, the couple welcomed their first child together, son Jake. They later added Rebecca, Max and Ali to their brood. Throughout his career, Hoffman has brought his kids to his many film premieres.