Genesis 28:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Hosea 12:12

Padan-aram

Laban

Genesis 24:29

General references

Hebrews 11:20

Bible References

Arise

Jacob fled to the land of Aram.
Israel worked to earn a wife;
he tended flocks for a wife.

Padan-aram

So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Now after these things Abraham was told, “Milcah also has borne sons to your brother Nahor:

The servant took 10 of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of his master’s goods in hand. Then he set out for Nahor’s town Aram-naharaim.

Isaac was 40 years old when he took as his wife Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

Jacob resumed his journey and went to the eastern country.

He took all the livestock and possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, and he drove his herds to go to the land of his father Isaac in Canaan.

I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two camps.

God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.

These were Leah’s sons born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, as well as his daughter Dinah. The total number of persons: 33.

Laban

Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and Laban ran out to the man at the spring.

General references

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.