Neville Goddard on Genesis 22:20-24 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 22 in context

Scripture Focus

20And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;

21Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

22And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.

23And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

24And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

Genesis 22:20-24

Biblical Context

Plainly, the verses enumerate Nahor's descendants through Milcah and his concubine Reumah, including Bethuel who fathers Rebekah, and the other children listed.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, these names are not mere names but states of consciousness taking form. Huz, Buz, Kemuel, Aram, Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph—each points to a quality you entertain as a part of your self and a stream of life you allow to flow. Bethuel and Rebekah show the deeper covenant of union: when two aspects unite, a new possibility arises. Reumah's children Tebah, Gaham, Thahash, Maachah appear as the secret avenues of creation within your mind, channels through which life seeds itself into your world. The passage does not speak of distant genealogy but of your internal family and its loyalties—your willingness to sustain covenant with your own I AM, to keep unity among divergent impulses. As you acknowledge all these branches as parts of your being, you invite harmony: a household where loyalty to the one God within you—your higher awareness—binds disparate tendencies into a coherent life. This is the inner kingdom; this is how you fulfill Genesis 22:24 in consciousness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly and recount Nahor's eight sons as inner traits within you, then say, I AM the unity that holds them; feel it real as one living self. Let that sense of covenant loyalty soften any friction, and rest in the quiet awareness that all branches belong to one self.