Genesis 28:2

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Arise, and get thee to Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel thy mothers father, and there take thee a wyfe of the daughters of Laban thy mothers brother.

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  • Gen 25:20 : 20 And Isahac was fourtie yere olde when he toke Rebecca to wyfe, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, and sister to Laban the Syrian.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 Iacob fled into the lande of Syria, and Israel serued for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheepe.
  • Gen 28:5 : 5 Thus Isahac sent foorth Iacob: and he went towarde Mesopotamia, vnto Laban, sonne of Bethuel the Syrian, and brother to Rebecca Iacob and Esaus mother.
  • Gen 29:1 : 1 Then Iacob went on his iourney, & came into the lande of the people of the east.
  • Gen 31:18 : 18 And caryed away all his flockes, and all his substaunce whiche he had procured, the increase of his cattell which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, for to go to Isahac his father vnto the lande of Chanaan.
  • Gen 32:10 : 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercyes and trueth whiche thou hast shewed vnto thy seruaunt: for with my staffe came I ouer this Iordane, & nowe haue I gotten two companies.
  • Gen 35:9 : 9 And God appeared vnto Iacob agayne, after he came out of Mesopotamia, and blessed him.
  • Gen 46:15 : 15 These be the children of Lea, whiche she bare vnto Iacob in Mesopotamia, with his daughter Dina. All the soules of his sonnes and daughters, make thirtie and three.
  • Gen 22:20-23 : 20 And after these thynges, one tolde Abraham, saying: beholde Milcha, she hath also borne chyldren vnto thy brother Nachor, 21 Hus his eldest sonne, and Buz his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians, 22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Iidlaph, and Bethuel. 23 And Bethuel begat Rebecca. These eyght did Milcha beare to Nachor Abrahams brother.
  • Gen 24:10 : 10 And the seruaunt toke ten Camelles of the Camelles of his maister, & departed (& had of al maner of goods of his maister with him) and so he arose & went to Mesopotamia, vnto ye citie of Nachor.
  • Gen 24:15-24 : 15 And it came to passe yer he had lefte speakyng, beholde, Rebecca came out, the daughter of Bethuel, sonne to Milcha, the wyfe of Nachor Abrahams brother, and her pytcher vpon her shoulder: 16 The damsel was very fayre to looke vpon, and yet a mayde, and vnknowen of man: and she went downe to the wel, and filled her pitcher, and came vp. 17 And the seruaunt runnyng to meete her, sayde: let me I pray thee drinke a litle water of thy pitcher. 18 And she sayd: drinke my Lorde. And she hasted, and let downe her pytcher vpon her arme, and gaue him drinke. 19 And when she had geuen him drinke, she sayde: I wyll drawe water for thy Camelles also, vntyl they haue dronke ynough. 20 And she poured out her pytcher into the trough hastyly, and ranne agayne vnto the well to draw water and drew for all his Camelles. 21 And the man wondred at her, but held his peace, to witte whether the Lorde had made his iourney prosperous, or not. 22 And as the Camelles had left drinking, the man tooke a golden earring of halfe a sickle wayght, and two bracelettes for her handes, of ten sickles wayght of golde, 23 And sayde: whose daughter art thou? tell me I pray thee: is there rowme in thy fathers house for vs to lodge in? 24 She aunswered hym: I am the daughter of Bethuel the sonne of Milcha whiche she bare vnto Nachor.
  • Gen 24:29 : 29 And Rebecca had a brother called Laban: and he ranne out vnto the man, euen to the well.
  • Gen 24:50 : 50 Then aunswered Laban and Bethuel, saying: This saying is proceeded euen of the Lorde, we can not therefore say vnto thee eyther good or bad.

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  • Gen 28:1
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    1And so Isahac called Iacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and sayde vnto hym: See thou take not a wyfe of the daughters of Chanaan:

  • Gen 28:3-7
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    3And God almyghtie blesse thee, and make thee to encrease, & multiplie thee, that thou mayest be a number of people:

    4And geue the blessing of Abraham vnto thee, and to thy seede with thee, that thou mayest receaue to inherite ye lande wherein thou art a straunger, whiche God gaue vnto Abraham.

    5Thus Isahac sent foorth Iacob: and he went towarde Mesopotamia, vnto Laban, sonne of Bethuel the Syrian, and brother to Rebecca Iacob and Esaus mother.

    6When Esau sawe that Isahac had blessed Iacob, and sent hym to Mesopotamia to fet hym a wyfe from thence, and that as he blessed him, he gaue him a charge, saying, thou shalt not take a wyfe of the daughters of Chanaan:

    7And that Iacob had obeyed his father and mother, and was gone to Mesopotamia:

  • Gen 24:3-4
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    3And I wyll make thee sweare by the Lorde God of heauen, and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wyfe vnto my sonne of the daughters of the Chanaanites, amongest which I dwel:

    4But thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne Isahac.

  • Gen 24:37-38
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    37And my maister made me sweare, saying: thou shalt not take a wyfe to my sonne amongest the daughters of the Chanaanites, in whose lande I dwell:

    38But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne.

  • Gen 25:20
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    20And Isahac was fourtie yere olde when he toke Rebecca to wyfe, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, and sister to Laban the Syrian.

  • Gen 31:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17Then Iacob rose vp, & set his sonnes and wyues vp vpon camelles:

    18And caryed away all his flockes, and all his substaunce whiche he had procured, the increase of his cattell which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, for to go to Isahac his father vnto the lande of Chanaan.

  • Gen 27:43
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    43Nowe therefore my sonne heare my voyce: make thee redy, and flee to Laban my brother at Haran,

  • Gen 24:51
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    51Beholde, Rebecca is before thee, take her, and go, that she may be thy maisters sonnes wife, euen as god hath sayde.

  • Gen 35:1
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    1And God sayd vnto Iacob: aryse, and get thee vp to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an aulter vnto God that appeared vnto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

  • Gen 31:13
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    13I am the God of Bethel, where thou annoyntedst the stone set vp on an ende, and where thou vowedst a vowe vnto me: nowe therefore aryse, and get thee out of this countrey, and returne vnto the lande where thou wast borne.

  • Gen 28:9-10
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    9Then went Esau vnto Ismael, and toke vnto the wyues which he had Mahalah the daughter of Ismael Abrahams sonne, the sister of Nebaioth to be his wyfe.

    10Iacob departed from Beer-seba, and went towarde Haran.

  • Gen 31:3
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    3And the Lorde sayde vnto Iacob: turne agayne into the lande of thy fathers, and to thy kynrede, and I wyll be with thee.

  • Gen 35:27
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    27And so Iacob came vnto Isahac his father to Mamre, vnto Ciriath-arba, whiche is Hebron, where Abraham and Isahac dwelt.

  • Gen 24:7
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    7The Lorde God of heauen whiche toke me from my fathers house, & from the land of my kinred, and which spake vnto me, and that sware vnto me, saying, vnto thy seede wyll I geue this lande: he shall sende his angell before thee, and thou shalt take a wyfe vnto my sonne from thence.

  • Gen 24:40
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    40And he answered me: the Lord before whom I walke, wyll sende his angell with thee, and prosper thy iourney, and thou shalt take a wyfe for my sonne of my kinred, and of my fathers house.

  • Gen 29:10
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    10Assoone as Iacob sawe Rachel the daughter of Laban his mothers brother, & the sheepe of Laban his mothers brother, Iacob went & rouled the stone from the welles mouth, & watered the flocke of Laban his mothers brother.

  • Gen 24:29
    75%

    29And Rebecca had a brother called Laban: and he ranne out vnto the man, euen to the well.

  • Gen 29:12
    74%

    12And Iacob tolde Rachel that he was her fathers brother, and that he was Rebeccaes sonne: Therefore ranne she and tolde her father.

  • Gen 29:16
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    16Laban had two daughters, the elder called Lea, and the younger Rachel.

  • Gen 27:46
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    46And Rebecca spake to Isahac: I am weery of my lyfe for the daughters of Heth. Yf Iacob take a wyfe of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the lande, what good shall my lyfe do me?