Genesis 24:15 Cross References - NSB

¹⁵ Before he finished praying, Rebekah came with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, who was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.

²⁷ This is the genealogy of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

²⁹ Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’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 Iscah.

¹⁴ Early the next morning Abraham took bread and a container of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder. He also gave her the boy and sent her on her way. So she left and wandered around in the desert near Beer-sheba.

²⁰ Abraham’s brother Nahor had married Milcah, and Abraham was later told that they had eight sons. ²¹ Uz was their firstborn. Buz was next. Then there was Kemuel who became the father of Aram. Their other five sons were ²² Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel. ²³ Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These are the eight children Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

²⁴ »My father is Bethuel son of Nahor and Milcah,« she answered.

⁴⁵ »Before I had finished speaking in my heart, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She went down to the spring and drew, and I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’

⁹ While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

¹⁶ The priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

³⁶ Gideon said to God: »You have said you will rescue Israel using me. ³⁷ »Look I will place wool on the threshing floor where we thresh the wheat. If in the morning there is dew only on the wool but not on the ground, I will know that you are going to use me to rescue Israel.« ³⁸ That is what happened. When Gideon got up early the next morning, he squeezed the wool and wrung enough dew out of it to fill a bowl with water. ³⁹ Then Gideon said to God: »Do not be angry with me. Allow me to speak just once more. Please let me make one more test with the wool. This time let the wool be dry, and the ground wet.« ⁴⁰ That night God did it. The next morning the wool was dry, but the ground was wet with dew.

² Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi: »Now let me go into the fields and pick up the heads of grain after anyone in whose eyes I find favor.« She said to her: »Go, my daughter.«

¹⁷ She gathered the heads of grain till evening. After crushing out the seed, it came to about an ephah of grain.

¹⁵ Jehovah’s eyes watch over righteous people. His ears hear their cry for help.

² All men will come to you O Hearer of prayer.

¹⁸ Jehovah is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth. ¹⁹ He will fulfill the desire of those who reverence him. He will also hear their cry and will save them.

²⁷ She watches over her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

⁹ »‘Then you will call, and Jehovah will answer! You will cry and he will say: ‘Here I am.’ If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness,

²⁴ »Before they call I will answer! While they are still speaking I will hear.

²⁰ While I was speaking, in prayer, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God; ²¹ While I was speaking in prayer, the spirit person [who looked like a man] Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, was inspired to come quickly and touch me. It was about the time of the evening offering. ²² He instructed me: »O Daniel,« he said, »I have now come to give you wisdom (insight) and understanding. ²³ »At the beginning of your supplications the commandment went forth. I came to report to you for you are greatly loved. Consider the matter, and understand the vision.