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Genesis 28:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Isaac was forty years old when he took as his wife Rebekah  daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram  and sister of Laban the Aramean.


So now, my son, listen to me. Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran,


He told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.


Jacob fled to the territory of Aram. Israel worked to earn a wife; he tended flocks for a wife.


And Bethuel fathered Rebekah.  Milcah bore these eight to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.


Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they got up in the morning, he said, ‘Send me to my master.’


Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father. Marry one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.


Jacob resumed his journey  and went to the eastern country.  ,


But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. ‘Watch yourself! ’ God warned him. ‘Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’


Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre  in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron  ), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.


You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramean.  He went down to Egypt with a few people and resided there as a foreigner.  There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.


Aram  was your trading partner because of your numerous products. They exchanged turquoise,  purple and embroidered cloth, fine linen, coral,  and rubies  for your merchandise.





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