Genesis 28:3-5
International Standard Version
3 May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful so that your descendants[a] become a whole group of people. 4 May he give you and your descendants the blessings that he gave Abraham. May you possess the land where you have lived[b] that God gave to Abraham.”
5 So Isaac sent Jacob off toward Paddan-aram[c] to visit Bethuel’s son Laban, the Aramean[d] and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
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- Genesis 28:3 Lit. that you
- Genesis 28:4 Lit. land of your journeying
- Genesis 28:5 Paddan-aram was located in northwest Mesopotamia
- Genesis 28:5 In later centuries this region would be called Syria
Genesis 28:3-5
King James Version
3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
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