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The sons of Shem: Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.
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The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek.
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The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites of today.
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Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram),
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Then the servant left, taking with him ten of his master’s camels loaded with all kinds of good things from his master. He set out for Aram Naharaim and made his way to the town of Nahor.
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Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.
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and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
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Go at once to Paddan Aram, 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.
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Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
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Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
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and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.
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Jacob Arrives in Paddan Aram
Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples.
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and he drove all his livestock ahead of him, along with all the goods he had accumulated in Paddan Aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.
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Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was running away.
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Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
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After Jacob came from Paddan Aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in Canaan and camped within sight of the city.
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After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
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As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin.
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The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
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The sons of Leah’s servant Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
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When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, succeeded him as king. His city was named Avith.
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When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah succeeded him as king.
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When Baal-Hanan son of Akbor died, Hadad succeeded him as king. His city was named Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahab.
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But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with the others, because he was afraid that harm might come to him.
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Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!”
