Genesis 28:5

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Thus Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Padan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau's mother.

Cross References

Genesis 22:23

Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

Genesis 24:54

Then they ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed there all night. And in the morning they arose, and he said. Send me away to my master.

Genesis 25:20

Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Padan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 27:43

So now, my son, do what I tell you; arise, flee to my brother Laban in Haran;

Genesis 28:2

Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father, and take from there as a wife one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

Genesis 29:1

THEN JACOB went [briskly and cheerfully] on his way [400 miles] and came to the land of the people of the East.

Genesis 29:12

Jacob told Rachel he was her father's relative, Rebekah's son; and she ran and told her father.

Genesis 31:24

But God came to Laban the Syrian [Aramean] in a dream by night and said to him, Be careful that you do not speak from good to bad to Jacob [peaceably, then violently].

Genesis 35:27

And Jacob came to Isaac his father at Mamre or Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

Ezekiel 27:16

Aram (Syria or Mesopotamia) and Edom traded with you because of the multitude of the wares of your making. They exchanged for your merchandise emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and agate or rubies.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled into the open country of Aram or Padan-aram, and [there] Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he herded sheep. [Gen. 29:18-20; 30:31; 31:38-41.]

Deuteronomy 26:5

And you shall say before the Lord your God, A wandering and lost Aramean ready to perish was my father [Jacob], and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous.