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Genesis 28:4-6
International Standard Version
Genesis 28:4-6
International Standard Version
4 May he give you and your descendants the blessings that he gave Abraham. May you possess the land where you have lived[a] that God gave to Abraham.”
5 So Isaac sent Jacob off toward Paddan-aram[b] to visit Bethuel’s son Laban, the Aramean[c] and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Esau Marries a Canaanite Woman
6 Esau noticed that after Isaac had blessed Jacob as he was sending him off to Paddan-aram[d] to marry a wife from there, he had instructed Jacob,[e] “Don’t marry a Canaanite woman.”
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- Genesis 28:4 Lit. land of your journeying
- Genesis 28:5 Paddan-aram was located in northwest Mesopotamia
- Genesis 28:5 In later centuries this region would be called Syria
- Genesis 28:6 Paddan-aram was located in northwest Mesopotamia
- Genesis 28:6 Lit. him
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