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Genesis 28:2
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1 Then Isaac called Jacob and ablessed him, and charged him, and said to him: b“You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.  
2 aArise, go to bPadan Aram, to the house of cBethuel your mother’s father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of dLaban your mother’s brother. 
3 “May aGod Almighty bless you,
And make you bfruitful and multiply you,
That you may be an assembly of peoples; 
4 And give you athe blessin1g of Abraham,
To you and your descendants with you,
That you may inherit the land
bIn which you are a stranger,
Which God gave to Abraham.”  
5 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.

Esau Marries Mahalath

6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Padan Aram to take himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”
7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Padan Aram.
8 Also Esau saw athat the daughters of Canaan did not please his father Isaac.  
9 So Esau went to Ishmael and atook bMahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, cthe sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Genesis 28:2

Go to Padan-aram - This mission, in its spirit and design, is nearly the same as that in Genesis 24 (note). There have been several ingenious conjectures concerning the retinue which Jacob had, or might have had, for his journey; and by some he has been supposed to have been well attended. Of this nothing is mentioned here, and the reverse seems to be intimated elsewhere. It appears, from Genesis 28:11, that he lodged in the open air, with a stone for his pillow; and from Genesis 32:10, that he went on foot with his staff in his hand; nor is there even the most indirect mention of any attendants, nor is it probable there were any. He no doubt took provisions with him sufficient to carry him to the nearest encampment or village on the way, where he would naturally recruit his bread and water to carry him to the next stage, and so on. The oil that he poured on the pillar might be a little of that which he had brought for his own use, and can be no rational argument of his having a stock of provisions, servants, camels, etc., for which it has been gravely brought. He had God alone with him.




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