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Genesis 28:4-6
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4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham[a] so that you may possess the land[b] God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”[c] 5 So 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.

6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there.[d] As he blessed him,[e] Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”[f]

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  1. Genesis 28:4 tn Heb “and may he give to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you.” The name “Abraham” is an objective genitive here; this refers to the blessing that God gave to Abraham.
  2. Genesis 28:4 tn The words “the land” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.
  3. Genesis 28:4 tn Heb “the land of your sojournings,” that is, the land where Jacob had been living as a resident foreigner, as his future descendants would after him.
  4. Genesis 28:6 tn Heb “to take for himself from there a wife.”
  5. Genesis 28:6 tn The infinitive construct with the preposition and the suffix form a temporal clause.
  6. Genesis 28:6 tn Heb “you must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”
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