Genesis 28:2

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Genesis 28:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.

2 “Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

3 May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

4 And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”

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Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife— for a wife he tended sheep.

Genesis 28:5

So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 22:20

Some time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:

Genesis 22:21

Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),

Genesis 22:22

Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”

Genesis 22:23

And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.

Genesis 24:10

Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.

Genesis 24:15

Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.

Genesis 24:16

Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.

Genesis 24:17

So the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”

Genesis 24:18

“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.

Genesis 24:19

After she had given him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.”

Genesis 24:20

And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.

Genesis 24:21

Meanwhile, the man watched her silently to see whether or not the LORD had made his journey a success.

Genesis 24:22

And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.

Genesis 24:23

“Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

Genesis 24:24

She replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”

Genesis 25:20

and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 29:1

Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.

Genesis 31:18

and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.

Genesis 32:10

I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

Genesis 35:9

After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.

Genesis 46:15

These are the sons of Leah born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. The total number of sons and daughters was thirty-three.

Genesis 24:29

Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.

Genesis 24:50

Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.