Bible Strands
Genesis 24:67
And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrative reports Isaac’s actions following the servant’s account, as he brings Rebekah into Sarah’s tent, marries her, and experiences comfort after his mother’s death.
The words — וַיְבִאֶהָ (va-yvī'ehā) means “and he brought her,” and הָאֹהֱלָה (ha-'ōhĕlâ) denotes “the tent,” marking the physical and domestic transition into the matriarch’s space.
The thread — The movement into a patriarchal tent parallels the domestic scene in Genesis 18:6, while the established marital union anticipates the husband-wife framework later detailed in Ephesians 5:22.
Why it lands — The text states that Isaac’s love for Rebekah directly replaces his grief, requiring the reader to recognize covenant continuity through concrete domestic actions rather than abstract sentiment.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Cross-references
- Song of Solomon 8:2 I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
- Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
- Genesis 18:6 So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”
- Genesis 18:9 “Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked. “There, in the tent,” he replied.
- Genesis 23:1 Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old.
- Genesis 25:20 and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
- Genesis 29:18 Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
- Genesis 37:35 All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
- Genesis 38:12 After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
- Isaiah 54:1 “Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.