Genesis 28:7

New American Bible - revised edition

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.

Cross References

Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Ephesians 6:3

“that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on earth.”

Ephesians 6:1

Children, obey your parents [in the Lord], for this is right.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father, or scorns the homage due a mother, Will be plucked out by brook ravens; devoured by a brood of vultures.

Proverbs 1:8

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and reject not your mother’s teaching;

Leviticus 19:3

Each of you revere your mother and father, and keep my sabbaths. I, the Lord, am your God.

Exodus 20:12

Honor your father and your mother, that you may have a long life in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Genesis 27:43

So now, my son, obey me: flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran,

Genesis 25:20

Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 28:6

Esau noted that Isaac had blessed Jacob when he sent him to Paddan-aram to get himself a wife there, and that, as he gave him his blessing, he charged him, “You shall not marry a Canaanite woman,”

Genesis 28:8

Esau realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac,