Genesis 28:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Isaac then sent Jacob to stay with Rebekah's brother Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.

Cross References

Genesis 24:54

Abraham's servant and the men with him ate and drank, then spent the night there. The next morning they got up, and the servant told Rebekah's mother and brother, “I would like to go back to my master now.”

Genesis 25:20

and he was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel. She was also the sister of Laban, the Aramean from northern Syria. Almost twenty years later,

Genesis 27:43

Now listen carefully and do what I say. Go to the home of my brother Laban in Haran

Genesis 28:2

Go at once to your mother's father Bethuel in northern Syria and choose a wife from one of the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

Genesis 29:1

As Jacob continued on his way to the east,

Genesis 29:12

He told her that he was the son of her aunt Rebekah, and she ran and told her father about him.

Genesis 31:24

But God appeared to Laban in a dream that night and warned, “Don't say a word to Jacob. Don't make a threat or a promise.”

Genesis 35:27

Jacob went to his father Isaac at Hebron, also called Mamre or Kiriath-Arba, where Isaac's father Abraham had lived as a foreigner.

Ezekiel 27:16

Edom traded emeralds, purple cloth, embroidery, fine linen, coral, and rubies.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob escaped to Syria where he tended sheep to earn himself a wife.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then, standing there in front of the place of worship, you must pray: My ancestor was homeless, an Aramean who went to live in Egypt. There were only a few in his family then, but they became great and powerful, a nation of many people.