Genesis 28:5

Modern English Version

Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan Aram to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Cross References

Genesis 22:23

Bethuel fathered Rebekah. Milkah gave birth to these eight to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

Genesis 24:54

Then they ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. The next morning they arose, and he said, “Send me away to my master.”

Genesis 25:20

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah as his wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

Genesis 27:43

Now therefore, my son, listen to me and get up and flee to Laban, my brother in Harran.

Genesis 28:2

Arise, go to Paddan Aram to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father, and take for yourself a wife from there, from the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.

Genesis 29:1

Then Jacob went on his journey and came into the land of the people of the east.

Genesis 29:12

Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative and that he was Rebekah’s son. Then she ran and told her father.

Genesis 31:24

But God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night and said to him, “Take care that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.”

Genesis 35:27

Jacob came back to Isaac his father in Mamre of Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

Ezekiel 27:16

Aram was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your wares. They paid for your wares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and agate.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the land of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then you must answer and say before the Lord your God, “A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with only a few in number, but there he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.