Genesis 28:2

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Arise, go to Paddan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

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  • Gen 25:20 : 20 Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls—indeed, their altars are like heaps of stone in the furrows of the field.
  • Gen 28:5 : 5 Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-Aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau's mother.
  • Gen 29:1 : 1 Jacob lifted his feet and set out toward the land of the people of the east.
  • Gen 31:18 : 18 He drove all his livestock and all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan Aram to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.
  • Gen 32:10 : 10 Then Jacob said, 'O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me,
  • Gen 35:9 : 9 God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-Aram, and He blessed him.
  • Gen 46:15 : 15 These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, along with his daughter Dinah. Altogether, the number of Leah's descendants, including sons and daughters, was thirty-three.
  • Gen 22:20-23 : 20 After these things, it was told to Abraham, 'Behold, Milcah has also borne children to your brother Nahor: 21 Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.' 23 Bethuel fathered Rebekah. These eight children Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
  • Gen 24:10 : 10 The servant took ten camels from his master’s herds and set out, taking with him all kinds of good gifts from his master. He went to Aram Naharaim, to the city of Nahor.
  • Gen 24:15-24 : 15 Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother. 16 The young woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again. 17 The servant hurried to meet her and said, "Please give me a little water from your jar." 18 "Drink, my lord," she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink. 19 After she had given him a drink, she said, "I'll draw water for your camels too, until they have had enough to drink." 20 So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, ran back to the well to draw more water, and drew enough for all his camels. 21 Without saying a word, the man watched her closely to see whether the Lord had made his journey successful or not. 22 When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a half shekel, and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels, and gave them to her. 23 Then he asked, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?" 24 She answered him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."
  • Gen 24:29 : 29 Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and Laban ran out to the man at the spring.
  • Gen 24:50 : 50 Laban and Bethuel answered, 'This matter comes from the Lord; we cannot say good or bad to you.'

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  • Gen 28:1
    86%

    1Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, saying, 'Do not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.'

  • Gen 28:3-7
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    3May God Almighty bless you, make you fruitful, and multiply you, so that you become a community of peoples.

    4May he give to you and your descendants with you the blessing of Abraham, that you may take possession of the land where you now live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.

    5Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-Aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau's mother.

    6Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him, he commanded him, 'You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.'

    7Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and went to Paddan-Aram.

  • Gen 24:3-4
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    3I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living.

    4Instead, go to my country and my kindred to choose a wife for my son Isaac.

  • Gen 24:37-38
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    83%

    37My master made me swear an oath, saying, 'You must not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live.

    38Instead, you must go to my father's household and to my family to take a wife for my son.'

  • Gen 25:20
    78%

    20Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.

  • Gen 31:17-18
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    17Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels.

    18He drove all his livestock and all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan Aram to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 27:43
    78%

    43Now then, my son, listen to me. Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.

  • Gen 24:51
    78%

    51Here is Rebekah; take her and go. Let her become the wife of your master's son, as the Lord has spoken.

  • Gen 35:1
    77%

    1God said to Jacob, "Get up, go to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."

  • Gen 31:13
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    13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to the land of your birth.'

  • Gen 28:9-10
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    9So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, as an additional wife to his existing wives.

    10Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

  • Gen 31:3
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    3Then the LORD said to Jacob, 'Return to the land of your ancestors and to your family, and I will be with you.'

  • Gen 35:27
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    27Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived as foreigners.

  • Gen 24:7
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    7The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's household and my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land,' will send His angel before you so that you can find a wife for my son there.

  • Gen 24:40
    75%

    40He answered me, 'The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey successful, so that you can take a wife for my son from my family and my father's household.

  • Gen 29:10
    75%

    10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban’s sheep, he went up, rolled the stone away from the well’s mouth, and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.

  • Gen 24:29
    75%

    29Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and Laban ran out to the man at the spring.

  • Gen 29:12
    74%

    12Jacob told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

  • Gen 29:16
    74%

    16Now Laban had two daughters: The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

  • Gen 27:46
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    46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, 'I am disgusted with my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these women from the land, what good is my life to me?'