1. So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. He commanded him, "Don't get married to a woman from Canaan.
2. Go at once to Paddan Aram. Go to the house of your mother's father Bethuel. Find a wife for yourself there. Take her from among the daughters of your mother's brother Laban.
3. "May the Mighty God bless you. May he give you children. May he increase your numbers until you become a community of nations.
4. May he give you and your children after you the blessing he gave to Abraham. Then you can take over the land where you now live as an outsider. It's the land God gave to Abraham."
5. Isaac sent Jacob on his way. Jacob went to Paddan Aram. He went to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean. Laban was the brother of Rebekah. And Rebekah was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
6. Esau found out that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram. Isaac wanted him to get a wife from there. Esau heard that when Isaac blessed Jacob, he commanded him, "Don't get married to a woman from Canaan."
7. Esau also learned that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.
8. Then Esau realized how much his father Isaac disliked the women of Canaan.
9. So he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath. She was the sister of Nebaioth and the daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael. Esau added her to the wives he already had.
10. Jacob left Beersheba and started out for Haran.