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Genesis 28:2 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. "

Genesis 28:2

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1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

4 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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Tobit 4:12

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"Beware, my child, of all fornication, and take first a wife of the seed of your fathers. Don’t take a strange wife, who is not of your father’s tribe; for we are the descendants of the prophets. Remember, my child, that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our fathers of old time, all took wives of their kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed will inherit the land."

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Genesis 27:43

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"Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran."

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Genesis 25:20

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"Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife."

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Jeremiah 29:6

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"Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished."

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Tobit 6:10

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"the angel said to the young man, “Brother, today we will lodge with Raguel. He is your kinsman. He has an only daughter named Sarah. I will speak about her, that she should be given to you for a wife."

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Hosea 12:12

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"Jacob fled into the country of Aram. Israel served to get a wife. For a wife he tended flocks and herds."

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Genesis 28:1

"Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan."

Genesis 28:3

"May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,"

Genesis 28:4

"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.”"

Genesis 28:5

"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."

Genesis 28:6

"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;”"

Genesis 28:7

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

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