The young woman ran and told her mother’s household all about these things.

Leave immediately 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.

Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.

What’s more, she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife.

Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took her as his wife and loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

“But Esau my brother is a hairy man,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, “and I have smooth skin!

So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

Then he brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother.

But Rebekah’s brother and her mother replied, “Let the girl stay with us a few more days, perhaps ten. Then she can go.”

So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!”

When Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, he said, “Is this your youngest brother, whom you told me about?” Then he said, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”

They blessed Rebekah with these words: “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands! May your descendants possess the strongholds of their enemies.”

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.

Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.

At the time of the wheat harvest Reuben went out and found some mandrake plants in a field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!”

We said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’