28:6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. 3 As he blessed him, 4 Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.” 5 28:7 Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.
35:9 God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.
46:15 These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, along with Dinah his daughter. His sons and daughters numbered thirty-three in all. 6
1 tn Heb “And Isaac was the son of forty years when he took Rebekah.”
2 sn Some valuable information is provided here. We learn here that Isaac married thirty-five years before Abraham died, that Rebekah was barren for twenty years, and that Abraham would have lived to see Jacob and Esau begin to grow up. The death of Abraham was recorded in the first part of the chapter as a “tidying up” of one generation before beginning the account of the next.
3 tn Heb “to take for himself from there a wife.”
4 tn The infinitive construct with the preposition and the suffix form a temporal clause.
5 tn Heb “you must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”
6 tn Heb “all the lives of his sons and his daughters, thirty-three.”