Genesis 28:2 - Forerunner Commentary

Genesis 28:2

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.

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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.

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Definitions of words in Genesis 28:2:

Aram {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Aram {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
Aram {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Brother {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Brother {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Father {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Father {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Go {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

House {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
House {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Mother {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Take {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Wife {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Wife {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Other definition entries containing Genesis 28:2:

Mesopotamia {Easton's}
Padan-aram {Easton's}

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