Genesis 28:2

Easy To Read Version

So leave this place and go to Paddan Aram. Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father. Laban, your mother’s brother, lives there. Marry one of his daughters.

Cross References

Genesis 24:10

The servant took ten of Abraham’s camels and left that place. The servant carried with him many different kinds of beautiful gifts. The servant went to Mesopotamia to Nahor’s city.

Genesis 24:4

Go back to my country to my own people. There find a wife for my son Isaac and bring her here to him.”

Genesis 24:50

Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “We see this is from the Lord, so there is nothing we can say to change it.

Genesis 25:20

When Isaac was 40 years old he married Rebekah. Rebekah was from Paddan Aram. She was Bethuel’s daughter and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 28:5

So Isaac sent Jacob to Rebekkah’s brother in Paddan Aram. So Jacob went to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean. Laban was the brother of Rebekkah. Rebekkah was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 29:1

Then Jacob continued his trip. He went to the country in the East.

Genesis 31:18

Then they began traveling back to the land of Canaan where his father lived. All the flocks of animals that Jacob owned walked ahead of them. He carried everything that he had gotten while he lived in Paddan Aram.

Genesis 32:10

You have been very kind to me. You did many good things for me. The first time I traveled across the Jordan River, I owned nothing—only my walking stick. But now I own enough things to have two full groups.

Genesis 33:18

Jacob safely ended his trip from Paddan Aram when he came to the town of Shechem in Canaan. Jacob made his camp in a field near the city.

Genesis 35:9

When Jacob came back from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again. And God blessed Jacob.

Genesis 46:15

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun were Jacob’s sons from his wife Leah. Leah had those sons in Paddan Aram. She also had a daughter named, Dinah. There were 33 people in this family.

Hosea 12:12

“Jacob ran away to the land of Aram. In that place, Israel {\cf2\super [140]} worked for a wife. He kept sheep to get another wife.

Hosea 12:13

But the Lord used a prophet and brought Israel out of Egypt. The Lord used a prophet and kept Israel safe.