¹⁸ And Jacob came safely^[a] to the city of ^(A)Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.

¹⁶ and ^(A)they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that ^(B)Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

Abimelech's Conspiracy

9 Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to ^(A)his mother's relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family,

The Covenant Renewal at Shechem

24 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel ^(A)to Shechem and ^(B)summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And ^(C)they presented themselves before God.

⁵ So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field ^(A)that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

²⁰ and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, ^(A)the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of ^(B)Paddan-aram, ^(C)the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.

²³ John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized

¹⁵ These are the sons of Leah, ^(A)whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah; altogether his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.

⁹ God appeared^[a] to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.

Esau Marries an Ishmaelite

⁶ Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” ⁷ and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram.