Genesis 28:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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  • Gen 28:1-2
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    1So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him,“You must not marry a Canaanite woman!

    2Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

  • Gen 28:6-8
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    6Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him,“You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”

    7Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.

    8Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac.

  • 20When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

  • Gen 27:42-43
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    42When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him,“Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.

    43Now then, my son, do what I say. Run away immediately to my brother Laban in Haran.

  • 18He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.

  • 25The Flocks of Jacob After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban,“Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.

  • 6Rebekah said to her son Jacob,“Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,

  • 10Jacob’s Dream at Bethel Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran.

  • 27So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba(that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

  • Gen 27:14-15
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    14So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

    15Then Rebekah took her older son Esau’s best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.

  • 3Jacob sent messengers on ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region of Edom.

  • 20Jacob also deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was leaving.

  • 4You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac.”

  • 12When Jacob explained to Rachel that he was a relative of her father and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father.

  • Gen 24:28-29
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    28The young woman ran and told her mother’s household all about these things.

    29(Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring.

  • 30Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

  • 55(32:1) Early in the morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters goodbye and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home.

  • 45Stay there until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I’ll send someone to bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

  • 4May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”