Genesis 25:20 - Exposition

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife ,—the valuable chronological fact here stated for the first time proves that Isaac was married three years after his mother's death (cf. Genesis 23:1 )— the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian ( vide on Genesis 22:23 ; Genesis 24:29 ). Though a descendant of Arphaxad ( Genesis 10:24 ), Bethuel is styled a Syrian, or Aramaean, from the country of his adoption. On Padanaram vide Genesis 24:10 .