Genesis 28:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So when Esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing, and sent him away to Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself there, blessing him and saying to him, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;

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  • Gen 27:33 : 33 And in great fear Isaac said, Who then is he who got meat and put it before me, and I took it all before you came, and gave him a blessing, and his it will be?
  • Gen 28:1 : 1 Then Isaac sent for Jacob, and blessing him, said, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;

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  • Gen 28:1-5
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    1Then Isaac sent for Jacob, and blessing him, said, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;

    2But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

    3And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.

    4And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.

    5So Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

  • Gen 28:7-9
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    7And that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and had gone to Paddan-aram;

    8It was clear to Esau that his father had no love for the women of Canaan,

    9So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.

  • 6Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the people of his house, and his beasts and his cattle and all his goods which he had got together in the land of Canaan, and went into the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob.

  • 4But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.

  • Gen 27:35-36
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    35And he said, Your brother came with deceit, and took away your blessing.

    36And he said, Is it because he is named Jacob that he has twice taken my place? for he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not kept a blessing for me?

  • 30And when Isaac had come to the end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had not long gone away from Isaac his father, Esau came in from the field.

  • 6And Rebekah said to Jacob, her son, Your father said to your brother Esau in my hearing,

  • Gen 24:37-38
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    37And my master made me take an oath, saying, Do not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;

    38But go to my father's house and to my relations for a wife for my son.

  • 18And sending on before him all his cattle and his property which he had got together in Paddan-aram, he made ready to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

  • 2Esau's wives were women of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

  • Gen 27:41-43
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    41So Esau was full of hate for Jacob because of his father's blessing; and he said in his heart, The days of weeping for my father are near; then I will put my brother Jacob to death.

    42Then Rebekah, hearing what Esau had said, sent for Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, It seems that your brother Esau is purposing to put you to death.

    43So now, my son, do what I say: go quickly to Haran, to my brother Laban;

  • 15And Rebekah took the fair robes of her oldest son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son: