Betuel, Rebekah’s father, mysteriously appears and disappears in the negotiations over Rebekah’s marriage.It seems that many solutions to the problem have been proposed. Redaction criticism has, not surprisingly, gotten involved too.
Not mentioned in this essay, but Aramaic Levi 62 seems to solve the problem by assuming that Laban had a son who was named Bethuel after his grandfather.
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