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Rebekah (Rebecca or Rivkah) (רִבְקָה, Standard Hebrew Rivqa, Tiberian Hebrew Riḇqāh) is the wife of Isaac. The news of Rebekah's birth is told to her great-uncle, Abraham, after Abraham returns from Akeidat Yitzḥaq (or Yitzkhaq) (the Binding of Isaac), the episode in which he was told by God to bring Isaac as a sacrifice on a mountain. Rebekah is the daughter of Bethuel and the granddaughter of Nahor, Abraham's brother. Rebekah's brother is Laban, who will later become the father-in-law of Rebekah's son, Jacob.