Bethuel is a quiet figure, remembered mostly as the father of Rebekah. Genesis 22:23 gives it plainly: “Bethuel begat Rebekah,” and he is a son of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham’s brother. When Abraham’s servant goes looking for a wife for Isaac, Rebekah introduces herself as “the daughter of Bethuel” (Genesis 24:24). The family line matters again a generation later, when Isaac sends Jacob “to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father” to find a wife of his own. Genesis 24 tells the story at greater length.
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And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
Matthew George Easton, 1897
Man of God, or virgin of God, or house of God. (1.) The son of Nahor by Milcah; nephew of Abraham, and father of Rebekah (Gen. 22:22, 23; 24:15, 24, 47). He appears in person only once (24:50).
(2.) A southern city of Judah (1 Chr. 4:30); called also Bethul (Josh. 19:4) and Bethel (12:16; 1 Sam. 30:27).
William Smith, 1884
(dweller in God), the son of Nahor by Milcah; nephew of Abraham, and father of Rebekah, (Genesis 22:22,23; 24:15,24,47; 28:2) In (Genesis 25:20) and (Genesis 28:5) he is called "Bethuel the Syrian."