Genesis 28:1

Genesis 28:1

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,”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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JACOB'S DEPARTURE. (Gen. 28:1-19)

Isaac called Jacob and blessed him—He entered fully into Rebekah's feelings, and the burden of his parting counsel to his son was to avoid a marriage alliance with any but the Mesopotamian branch of the family. At the same time he gave him a solemn blessing—pronounced before unwittingly, now designedly, and with a cordial spirit. It is more explicitly and fully given, and Jacob was thus acknowledged "the heir of the promise."

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