Milcah

By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master." Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder.

She was the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, who was the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor.

The girl was very beautiful, a virgin.

No man had ever lain with her.

She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, Drink, and I'll water your camels too.

So I drank, and she watered the camels also.

I asked her, Whose daughter are you? She said, The daughter of Bethuel, son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.

Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms, and I bowed down and worshipped the Lord.

Abraham and Nahor both married.

The name of Abraham's wife was Sarai and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah.

She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Ishcah.

Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan.

That makes him eight when Sarah was born.

But the passage also tells us that she had an older sister, Milcah, which makes him seven at her birth.

Turns out that he was six at the time of her conception.

And notice on [inaudible] one last [inaudible].

And Adam called her name Eve, for she was the mother of all living.

And God blessed them and called their names Adam and Eve in the day that he created them.

And the Lord God said, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

And the Lord God took Adam and his wife, and he placed them in the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

And in those days Canaan wrote upon tablets of stone what was to take place in time to come, and he put them in his treasures.

And Canaan reigned over the whole earth, and he turned some of the sons of men to the service of God.

And when Canaan was seventy years old, he begat three sons and two daughters, and these are the names of the children of Canaan.

The name of the firstborn, Malaleel, the second, Enan, the third, Merad, and their sisters were Ada and Zillah.

And Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

It came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor.

Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram.

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.

Father, we thank you for this passage of Scripture before us.

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.

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

Killed it.

All right.

The fifth hineh occu- occurs in verse 20, so let's read that one more time.

And these were the names of his daughters.

Machlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Chazah.

They approached Eliezer the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the leaders and said, The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along with our brothers.

So according to the mouth of the Lord, he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.

The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, means princess.

The name of Nahor's wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.

But Sarai was barren, she had no child.

And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees to go into the land of Canaan.

So verse 15: "And it came to pass, before he had done s- he was done speaking, that behold, Rebecca." We're gonna learn all about Rebecca.

"Rebecca came out who was born of Bethlehem, the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor," the, Abraham's brother, and with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

And the damsel was very fair.

When you see the word fair in the Bible, it means she was pretty.

He's wanting to pay her.

And said, "Whose daughter art thou? Tell me, I pray thee.

Is there room in thy hou- in thy father's house for us to lodge?" And she said unto him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Na- Nahor." Sh- she said moreover unto him, "We have both straw," and providential or enough, "room and to lodging." So what are we learning here? So he's praying specifically this young lady, Rebecca, she comes, she comes out, she approaches.

Um, he hadn't even finished praying.