Genesis 28:5

Easy To Read Version

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.

Cross References

Genesis 22:23

Bethuel was the father of Rebekah. Milcah was the mother of these eight sons, and Nahor was the father. Nahor was Abraham’s brother.

Genesis 24:54

Then he and his men had something to eat and drink and then spent the night there. Early the next morning, they got up and said, “Now we must go back to my master.”

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 27:43

So, son, do what I say. My brother Laban is living in Haran. Go to him and hide.

Genesis 28:2

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.

Genesis 29:1

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

Genesis 29:12

Jacob told Rachel that he was from her father’s family. He told Rachel that he was the son of Rebekah. So Rachel ran home and told her father.

Genesis 31:24

That night God went to Laban in a dream. God said, “Be careful! Be careful of every word you say to Jacob.”

Genesis 35:27

Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath Arba (Hebron). This is where Abraham and Isaac had lived.

Ezekiel 27:16

Aram traded with you because you had so many good things. They traded emeralds, purple cloth, fine needlework, fine linen, coral {\cf2\super [226]} and rubies for the things you sold.

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.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then there before the Lord your God you will say: ‘My ancestor was a wandering Aramean. [157] He went down into Egypt and stayed there. When he went there, he had only a few people in his family. But in Egypt he became a great nation—a powerful nation with many people.