Genesis 28:2
Good News Translation
Go instead to Mesopotamia, to the home of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of the young women there, one of your uncle Laban's daughters.

New Revised Standard Version
Go at once to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father; and take as wife from there one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

Contemporary English Version
Go at once to your mother's father Bethuel in northern Syria and choose a wife from one of the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

New American Bible
Go now to Paddan-aram, to the home of your mother’s father Bethuel, and there choose a wife for yourself from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bathuel, thy mother's father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban, thy uncle.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bathuel, thy mother's father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban, thy uncle.

Arise.

Hosea 12:12 Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and was a keeper for a wife.

Padan-aram.

Genesis 28:5 And when Isaac had sent him away, he took his journey and went to Mesopotamia of Syria, to Laban, the son of Bathuel, the Syrian, brother to Rebecca, his mother.

Genesis 22:20-23 After these things, it was told Abraham, that Melcha also had borne children to Nachor his brother. . . .

Genesis 24:10,15-24 And he took ten camels of his master's herd, and departed, carrying something of all his goods with him, and he set forward and went on to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nachor. . . .

Genesis 25:20 Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.

Genesis 29:1 Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came into the east country.

Genesis 31:18 And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac, his father, to the land of Chanaan.

Genesis 32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I return with two companies.

Genesis 35:9 And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,

Genesis 46:15 These are the sons of Lia, whom she bore in Mesopotamia of Syria, with Dina, his daughter. All the souls of her sons and daughters, thirty-three.

Laban.

Genesis 24:29,50 And Rebecca had a brother, named Laban, who went out in haste to the man, to the well. . . .

Context
Jacob Flees to Laban
1And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan: 2But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bathuel, thy mother's father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban, thy uncle.3And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase and multiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people.…
Cross References
Genesis 25:20
Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.

Genesis 33:18
And he passed over to Salem, a city of the Sichemites, which is in the land of Chanaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria: and he dwelt by the town.

Genesis 28:1
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