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Rebekah
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
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A daughter of Bethuel, and sister of Laban in Mesopotamia, who became the wife of Isaac, and twenty years afterwards the mother of Jacob and Esau. The manner in which she was sought and obtained as the wife of Isaac, exhibits a striking picture of oriental manners and customs. Through her partiality for Jacob, she was tempted into the use of unjustifiable means to secure for him the inheritance, not having faith to leave to God the fulfilment of his own purposes, Genesis 25:22,23 . Her deceit led to disastrous results: Jacob fled from home; and when he returned from Mesopotamia twenty years afterwards, his mother lay buried in the cave of Machpelah, Genesis 24:1-28:22 49:31 .
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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Rebekah'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/r/rebekah.html. 1859.
Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Rebekah'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/r/rebekah.html. 1859.
