1. Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. Then Isaac gave him a command and said, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.
2. So leave this place and go to Paddan Aram. Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father. Laban, your mother’s brother, lives there. Marry one of his daughters.
3. I pray that God All-Powerful will bless you and give you many children. I pray that you will become the father of a great nation
4. and that God will bless you and your children the same way he blessed Abraham. And I pray that you will own the land where you live. This is the land God gave to Abraham.”
5. So Isaac sent Jacob to Rebekah’s brother in Paddan Aram. Jacob went to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean. Laban was the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.