Bethuel

And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph.

And Bethuel," and Bethuel begat who? "Rebecca." Interesting she's noted here.

"These eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother, and his concubine, whose name was Re- Rumah.

She bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah." Let's pray.

All are heathen.

And in like manner as we gazed with great reverence at the place where the house of holy Abraham was at first for the sake of his memorial, so do those heathen gaze with great reverence at a place about a mile from the city where are the memorials of Nahor and Bethuel.

And since the bishop of that city is very learned in the scriptures, I asked him saying, I beg of you, my lord, to tell me that which I desire to hear.

And he said, Tell me, daughter, what you wish, and I will tell it you if I know it.

Then I said, I know by the Scriptures that holy Abraham came to this place with his father Terah, and with Sarah his wife, and with Lot his brother's son.

But I have not read when Nahor and Bethuel came here.

I know only that afterwards Abraham's servant came to Shehrah, that he might seek Rebekah the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, for Isaac the son of his master Abraham.

Then the holy bishop said to me, Truly, daughter, it is written as you say in Genesis that holy Abraham came here with his relatives.

So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him and said to him, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

Arise and go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and from there take yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

And may God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

May He also give you the blessing of Abraham to you and to your descendants with you, that you may possess the land of your sojournings which God gave to Abraham." Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel, the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

And I'll pray.

Lord, I'm so grateful, God, for your word.

Sometime later Abraham was told, "Milkah is also a mother.

She has borne sons to your brother Nahor: Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of A- Aram [laughs], Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph and Bethuel." Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.

Milkah bore th- these eight sons to Abraham's fa- brother Nahor.

His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maacah.

So look at verse 20 with me, uh, through, uh, through verse 24.

"Sometime later, Abraham was told, 'Milcah is also a mother.

She has borne sons to your brother Nahor: Uz, the firstborn, Buz, his brother, Kemuel, the father of Aram, Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jit- Jitlah and Bethuel.' Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.

Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham's brother Nahor.

So some call it a contradiction.

Earlier chapters call Laban, the son of Bethel, of Bethuel.

Nahor is Laban's grandfather.

The son often names the clan, not the immediate father.

Where's all the Imahot? Especially the ladies.

Imagine you tell the ladies, Abraham, Now, I'm sure the reconstructionists, Abraham and Sarah, and they probably have a haggar also, and the kid Torah, and Laban, and Betuel, and all the in-laws, and the consuegros.

Leave the reconstructionists.

I'm talking about us.

Kesed, Azo, Pudash.

Gidlaf and Bethuel.

Now look at verse 23.

And Bethuel begot Rebekah.

Rebekah.

Rebekah.

"So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him and said to him, 'You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

Arise, go to Padam- Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father.

And from there, take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.'" May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

May he also give you the blessing of Abraham to you and to your descendants with you, that you may possess the land of your sojournings which God gave to Abraham.

Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Padan Aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Padan Aram to take to himself a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he charged him, saying, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan, and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Padan Aram.

So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan displeased his father Isaac.

Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, nor did any of their families multiply as much as the children of Judah.

They dwelt in Beersheba, Molada, Hazoshual, Bilhah, Hizam, Tolad, Bethuel, Homa, Zigla, Beth-Makoboth, Hazashosem, Beth-Biri, and at Sharayim.

These were the cities until the reign of David.

And the villages were Itam, Ayin, Rimon, Tochen and Ashen, five cities, and all the villages that were around the cities, Asparis, Baal, these were their dwelling places, and they maintained their genealogy.