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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.”

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

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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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 28:4 Lit. land of your journeying
  2. Genesis 28:5 Paddan-aram was located in northwest Mesopotamia
  3. Genesis 28:5 In later centuries this region would be called Syria
  4. Genesis 28:6 Paddan-aram was located in northwest Mesopotamia
  5. Genesis 28:6 Lit. him