Jacob Sent to Laban
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Then Isaac called Jacob and a blessed him, and charged him, and said to him: b "You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.
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c "Arise, go to d Padan Aram, to the house of e Bethuel your mother's father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of f Laban your mother's brother.
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"May g God Almighty bless you,
And make you h fruitful and multiply you,
That you may be an assembly of peoples;
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And give you i the blessing of Abraham,
To you and your descendants with you,
That you may inherit the land
j In which you are a stranger,
Which God gave to Abraham."
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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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Genesis 27:33
Then Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, "Who? Where is the one who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it before you came, and I have blessed him - and indeed he shall be blessed.
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Genesis 24:3
And I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
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Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the country of Syria; Israel served for a spouse, And for a wife he tended sheep.
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Genesis 25:20
Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah as wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian.
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Genesis 22:23
And Bethuel begot Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
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Genesis 24:29
Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban, and Laban ran out to the man by the well.
Genesis 27:43
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice: arise, flee to my brother Laban in Haran.
Genesis 29:5
Then he said to them, "Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?" And they said, "We know him.
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Genesis 17:16
"And I will bless her and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be from her."
Genesis 35:11
Also God said to him: "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body.
Genesis 48:3
Then Jacob said to Joseph: "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
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Genesis 26:4
And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.
Genesis 26:24
And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham; do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for My servant Abraham's sake.
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Genesis 12:2
I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.
Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Genesis 22:17
Blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
Galatians 3:8
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, "In you all the nations shall be blessed.
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Genesis 17:8
"Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God."
Genesis 23:4
"I am a foreigner and a visitor among you. Give me property for a burial place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
Genesis 36:7
For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they were strangers could not support them because of their livestock.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are aliens and pilgrims before You, As were all our fathers; Our days on earth are as a shadow, And without hope.
Psalms 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
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