Genesis 28:2
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Go at once to Paddan Aram,a to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
Read Genesis 28:2 Using Other Translations
Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel your mother's father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
Instead, go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of your uncle Laban’s daughters.
What does Genesis 28:2 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Genesis 28:2
Arise, go to Padanaram
Of this place, (See Gill on Genesis
25:20); either he is bid to go directly, in haste and
alone; perhaps by this time Rebekah had given Isaac some hint of
the ill design of Esau against him, which made Isaac the more
urgent upon him to be gone, as well as it was high time he had
took to himself a wife: to the house of Bethuel thy
mother's father;
who though now dead in all probability, yet the house and family
went by his name: and take thee a wife from thence of the
daughters of Laban thy
mother's brother:
who had daughters unmarried, of which no doubt Isaac and Rebekah
had knowledge, a correspondence being kept up between the two
families, though at a great distance.
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