Genesis 28:2-4
Complete Jewish Bible
2 Go now to the home of B’tu’el your mother’s father, and choose a wife there from the daughters of Lavan your mother’s brother. 3 May El Shaddai bless you, make you fruitful and increase your descendants, until they become a whole assembly of peoples. 4 And may he give you the blessing which he gave Avraham, you and your descendants with you, so that you will possess the land you will travel through, the land God gave to Avraham.”
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Genesis 28:2-4
New International Version
2 Go at once to Paddan Aram,[a](A) to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel.(B) Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.(C) 3 May God Almighty[b](D) bless(E) you and make you fruitful(F) and increase your numbers(G) until you become a community of peoples. 4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham,(H) so that you may take possession of the land(I) where you now reside as a foreigner,(J) the land God gave to Abraham.”
Footnotes
- Genesis 28:2 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia; also in verses 5, 6 and 7
- Genesis 28:3 Hebrew El-Shaddai
Genesis 28:2-4
King James Version
2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughers of Laban thy mother's brother.
3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
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Genesis 28:2-4
New King James Version
2 (A)Arise, go to (B)Padan Aram, to the house of (C)Bethuel your mother’s father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of (D)Laban your mother’s brother.
3 “May (E)God Almighty bless you,
And make you (F)fruitful and multiply you,
That you may be an assembly of peoples;
4 And give you (G)the blessing of Abraham,
To you and your descendants with you,
That you may inherit the land
(H)In[a] which you are a stranger,
Which God gave to Abraham.”
Footnotes
- Genesis 28:4 Lit. Of your sojournings
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