Genesis 28:2

New Living Translation

Instead, go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of your uncle Laban’s daughters.

Cross References

Genesis 24:10

Then he loaded ten of Abraham’s camels with all kinds of expensive gifts from his master, and he traveled to distant Aram-naharaim. There he went to the town where Abraham’s brother Nahor had settled.

Genesis 24:29

Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, who ran out to meet the man at the spring.

Genesis 24:4

Go instead to my homeland, to my relatives, and find a wife there for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 24:50

Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “The Lord has obviously brought you here, so there is nothing we can say.

Genesis 25:20

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

Genesis 28:5

So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to stay with his uncle Laban, his mother’s brother, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.

Genesis 29:1

Then Jacob hurried on, finally arriving in the land of the east.

Genesis 31:18

and he drove all his livestock in front of him. He packed all the belongings he had acquired in Paddan-aram and set out for the land of Canaan, where his father, Isaac, lived.

Genesis 32:10

I am not worthy of all the unfailing love and faithfulness you have shown to me, your servant. When I left home and crossed the Jordan River, I owned nothing except a walking stick. Now my household fills two large camps!

Genesis 33:18

Later, having traveled all the way from Paddan-aram, Jacob arrived safely at the town of Shechem, in the land of Canaan. There he set up camp outside the town.

Genesis 35:9

Now that Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again at Bethel. God blessed him,

Genesis 46:15

These were the sons of Leah and Jacob who were born in Paddan-aram, in addition to their daughter, Dinah. The number of Jacob’s descendants (male and female) through Leah was thirty-three.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the land of Aram, and there he earned a wife by tending sheep.

Hosea 12:13

Then by a prophet the Lord brought Jacob’s descendants out of Egypt; and by that prophet they were protected.