Genesis 28:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife 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 took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 Jacob fled into the country of Aram, And Israel served to get a wife, And for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
  • Gen 28:5 : 5 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
  • Gen 29:1 : 1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
  • Gen 31:18 : 18 and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan.
  • Gen 32:10 : 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
  • Gen 35:9 : 9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
  • Gen 46:15 : 15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
  • Gen 22:20-23 : 20 It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has 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 became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
  • Gen 24:10 : 10 The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
  • Gen 24:15-24 : 15 It happened, before he had done speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder. 16 The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up. 17 The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher." 18 She said, "Drink, my lord." She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink. 19 When she had done giving him drink, she said, "I will also draw for your camels, until they have done drinking." 20 She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels. 21 The man looked steadfastly at her, holding his peace, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not. 22 It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold, 23 and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?" 24 She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."
  • Gen 24:29 : 29 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
  • Gen 24:50 : 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can't speak to you bad or good.

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  • 1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

  • Gen 28:3-7
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    3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

    4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."

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

    6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"

    7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

  • Gen 24:3-4
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    3 I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

    4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."

  • Gen 24:37-38
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    37 My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

    38 but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'

  • 20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

  • Gen 31:17-18
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    17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

    18 and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan.

  • 43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.

  • 51 Behold, Rebekah is before you, take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has spoken."

  • 1 God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."

  • 13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth."

  • Gen 28:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    9 Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

    10 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

  • 3 Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."

  • 27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

  • 7 Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed{or, offspring}.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

  • 40 He said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.

  • 10 It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

  • 29 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

  • 12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.

  • 16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

  • 46 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"