Genesis 28:5

New Century Version

So Isaac sent Jacob to Northwest Mesopotamia, to Laban the brother of Rebekah. Bethuel the Aramean was the father of Laban and Rebekah, and Rebekah was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Cross References

Genesis 22:23

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

Genesis 24:54

The servant and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, the servant said, “Now let me go back to my master.”

Genesis 25:20

When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, who came from Northwest Mesopotamia. She was Bethuel’s daughter and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 27:43

So, my son, do what I say. My brother Laban is living in Haran. Go to him at once!

Genesis 28:2

Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, in Northwest Mesopotamia. Laban, your mother’s brother, lives there. Marry one of his daughters.

Genesis 29:1

Then Jacob continued his journey and came to the land of the people of the East.

Genesis 29:12

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

Genesis 31:24

That night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and said, “Be careful! Do not say anything to Jacob, good or bad.”

Genesis 35:27

Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre near Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived.

Ezekiel 27:16

“ ‘People of Aram became traders for you, because you had so many good things to sell. They traded your goods for turquoise, purple cloth, cloth with designs sewed on, fine linen, coral, and rubies.

Hosea 12:12

Your ancestor Jacob fled to Northwest Mesopotamia where he worked to get a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then you shall announce before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with only a few people, but they became a great, powerful, and large nation there.