Genesis 28:6
Esau 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.”
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- Gen 27:33 : 33 Isaac began to shake violently and asked,“Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. He will indeed be blessed!”
- Gen 28:1 : 1 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him,“You must not marry a Canaanite woman!
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- Gen 28:1-55 verses91%
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.
3May the Sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.
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.”
5So 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.
- Gen 28:7-93 verses85%
7Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.
8Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac.
9So Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, along with the wives he already had.
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6Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, all the people in his household, his livestock, his animals, and all his possessions which he had acquired in the land of Canaan and went to a land some distance away from Jacob his brother
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4You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac.”
- Gen 27:35-362 verses76%
35But Isaac replied,“Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.”
36Esau exclaimed,“‘Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked,“Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”
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30Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
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6Rebekah said to her son Jacob,“Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,
- Gen 24:37-382 verses75%
37My master made me swear an oath. He said,‘You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,
38but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’
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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.
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2Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,
- Gen 27:41-433 verses74%
41So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately,“The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!”
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.
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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.