Genesis 28:2

New English Translation

Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

Cross References

Genesis 24:10

Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. He journeyed to the region of Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor.

Genesis 24:29

(Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring.

Genesis 24:4

You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 24:50

Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “This is the Lord’s doing. Our wishes are of no concern.

Genesis 25:20

When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 28:5

So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 29:1

So Jacob moved on and came to the land of the eastern people.

Genesis 31:18

He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.

Genesis 32:10

I am not worthy of all the faithful love you have shown your servant. With only my walking stick I crossed the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

Genesis 33:18

After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near the city.

Genesis 35:9

God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.

Genesis 46:15

These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, along with Dinah his daughter. His sons and daughters numbered thirty-three in all.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the country of Aram, then Israel worked to acquire a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.

Hosea 12:13

The Lord brought Israel out of Egypt by a prophet, and due to a prophet Israel was preserved alive.