OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 7

Genesis 28:7

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and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

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Genesis 28:4–10

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and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”

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Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

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Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;”

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and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

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Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.

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So Esau went to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

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Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

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