Genesis 28:7

28:7 Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.

Genesis 35:9

35:9 God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.

Genesis 25:20

25:20 When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, ¹  the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean. ² 

Genesis 28:2

28:2 Leave immediately ³  for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

Genesis 28:5

28:5 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.

Genesis 33:18

33:18 After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near ⁴  the city.

Genesis 35:26

35:26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant, were Gad and Asher.

These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

Genesis 46:15

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. ⁵ 

Genesis 28:6

28:6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. ⁶  As he blessed him, ⁷  Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.” ⁸ 

Genesis 31:18

31:18 He took ⁹  away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac. ¹⁰ 

Genesis 48:7

48:7 But as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, Rachel died – to my sorrow ¹¹  – in the land of Canaan. It happened along the way, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there on the way to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem). ¹² 

[25:20]  ¹ tn Heb “And Isaac was the son of forty years when he took Rebekah.”

[25:20]  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.

[28:2]  ¹ tn Heb “Arise! Go!” The first of the two imperatives is adverbial and stresses the immediacy of the departure.

[33:18]  ¹ tn Heb “in front of.”

[46:15]  ¹ tn Heb “all the lives of his sons and his daughters, thirty-three.”

[28:6]  ¹ tn Heb “to take for himself from there a wife.”

[28:6]  ² tn The infinitive construct with the preposition and the suffix form a temporal clause.

[28:6]  ³ tn Heb “you must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”

[31:18]  ¹ tn Heb “drove,” but this is subject to misunderstanding in contemporary English.

[31:18]  ² tn Heb “and he led away all his cattle and all his moveable property which he acquired, the cattle he obtained, which he acquired in Paddan Aram to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan.”

[48:7]  ¹ tn Heb “upon me, against me,” which might mean something like “to my sorrow.”

[48:7]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.