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21 Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. 22 The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?”
But after he had pondered these things, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to embrace Mary as your wife, for the One conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. / She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
20 When Isaac was forty years old, he ·married [L took as a wife] Rebekah , ·who came from northwestern Mesopotamia [L the Aramean from Paddan-aram]. She was Bethuel’s daughter and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
21 Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. ( A ) The Lord answered his prayer, ( B ) and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. 22 The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?”
4 sty 2022 · Rebekah in the Bible was the wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau. We first meet Rebekah in Genesis 24:15, where she is identified as “the daughter of Bethuel son of Milkah, who was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.”
14 sty 2024 · Rebekah was the wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau. After marrying Isaac, Rebekah struggled with infertility and was unable to conceive for nearly 20 years (Genesis 25:20-26). This was a hardship and source of shame in ancient Near Eastern culture, where producing offspring was highly valued.
Isaac brought her into the tent of his deceased mother Sarah, married her, and loved her. According to Rashi, the three miracles that characterized Sarah's tent while she was alive, and that disappeared with her death, reappeared when Rebecca entered the tent.
