And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
Bethuel, the son of Nahor, begat Rebekah, and she is counted among the eight children whom Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother. By this reckoning Rebekah's family is linked to Nahor and to Haran in Syria.
The reckoning stands at the close of Abraham's great test of faith, in which he received Isaac back from the dead in figure, demonstrating that the promised seed and salvation come through God's power and not by human effort. It opens the lead-up to the servant's journey to obtain a wife for Isaac. That journey forms part of God's providential dealings with Abraham's chosen family. Because Rebekah thus became part of the family through which the promised Seed would come, the whole account is to be read with that Seed in mind.
Bethuel, the son of Nahor, begat Rebekah, and she is counted among the eight children whom Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother. By this reckoning Rebekah's family is linked to Nahor and to Haran in Syria.
The reckoning stands at the close of Abraham's great test of faith, in which he received Isaac back from the dead in figure, demonstrating that the promised seed and salvation come through God's power and not by human effort. It opens the lead-up to the servant's journey to obtain a wife for Isaac. That journey forms part of God's providential dealings with Abraham's chosen family. Because Rebekah thus became part of the family through which the promised Seed would come, the whole account is to be read with that Seed in mind.