3. May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.
4. May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”
5. So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
6. Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”
7. Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.
8. Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac.