Tag: isaac
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Why did Abraham insist that Isaac marry from his kinfolk in Genesis 24?
Genesis 24:37 NASB My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live; 38 but you shall go to my father’s house and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son…
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Is there a chronological issue in Genesis 25,26 and 27?
In Genesis 25 we meet Isaac who marries Rebecca. Rebecca conceives and gives birth to twins Esau and Jacob. Isaac is above sixty years of age when the chapter closes. Genesis 25 NASB 20 and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, …
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Did Isaac see his Great-Grandchildren like Joseph?
At the end of Genesis, the Bible specifically mentions Joseph saw his Great-Grandchildren at 110 years old, but of Isaac who passed at 180, no mention is made of this. Did Isaac see his Great-Grandchildren as well or not?