Genesis 28:2-4

Contemporary English Version

² Go at once to your mother's father Bethuel in northern Syria^[a] and choose a wife from one of the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother. ³ I pray that God All-Powerful will bless you with many descendants and let you become a great nation. ^4 (A) May he bless you with the land he promised Abraham, so that you will take over this land where we now live as foreigners.