Genesis 28:5

New King James Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 22:23

And Bethuel begot Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

Genesis 24:54

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

Genesis 25:20

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

Genesis 27:43

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice: arise, flee to my brother Laban in Haran.

Genesis 28:2

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

Genesis 29:1

So Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the East.

Genesis 29:12

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

Genesis 31:24

But God had come to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, “Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.”

Genesis 35:27

Then Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kirjath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had dwelt.

Ezekiel 27:16

Syria was your merchant because of the abundance of goods you made. They gave you for your wares emeralds, purple, embroidery, fine linen, corals, and rubies.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the country of Syria; Israel served for a spouse, And for a wife he tended sheep.

Deuteronomy 26:5

And you shall answer and say before the Lord your God: ‘My father was a Syrian, about to perish, and he went down to Egypt and dwelt there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.