20 And Isaac happened to be forty years old at his taking Re·bekʹah the daughter of Be·thuʹel+ the Syrian*+ of Padʹdan-aʹram,* the sister of Laʹban the Syrian, as his wife.

5 And you must answer and say before Jehovah your God, ‘My father was a perishing Syrian;*+ and he proceeded to go down to Egypt+ and to reside there as an alien with very few in number;+ but there he became a great nation, mighty and numerous.+

12 And Jacob proceeded to run away to the field of Syria,*+ and Israel+ kept serving for a wife,*+ and for a wife he guarded [sheep].+