Genesis 28:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 27:43 : 43 Now then, my son, do what I say. Run away immediately to my brother Laban in Haran.
  • Exod 20:12 : 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
  • Prov 1:8 : 8 Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother– the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.
  • Eph 6:1 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
  • Eph 6:3 : 3 “that it will go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.”
  • Col 3:20 : 20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 28:5-6
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    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.

    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.”

  • 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 31:17-18
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    17So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels.

    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.

  • Gen 28:10
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    10Jacob’s Dream at Bethel Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran.

  • Gen 27:43
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    43Now then, my son, do what I say. Run away immediately to my brother Laban in Haran.

  • Gen 28:8
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    8Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac.

  • Gen 35:27
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    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.

  • Gen 30:25
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    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.

  • Gen 27:6
    74%

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

  • Gen 31:3
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    3The LORD said to Jacob,“Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.”

  • Gen 37:1
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    1Joseph’s Dreams But Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 35:9
    73%

    9God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.

  • Gen 35:1
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    1The Return to Bethel Then God said to Jacob,“Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

  • Gen 29:1
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    1The Marriages of Jacob So Jacob moved on and came to the land of the eastern people.

  • Gen 31:21
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    21He left with all he owned. He quickly crossed the Euphrates River and headed for the hill country of Gilead.