Study it in the app“Get up, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father, and take for yourself from there a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.”
Get up,קוּםgoלֵךְto Paddan-aram,פַּדֶּנָה אֲרָםto the houseבֵּיתָהof Bethuelבְתוּאֵלyour mother’sאִמֶּךָfather,אֲבִיand takeוְקַחfor yourselfלְךָfrom thereמִשָּׁםa wifeאִשָּׁהfrom the daughtersמִבְּנוֹתof Labanלָבָןyour mother’sאִמֶּךָbrother.אֲחִי
rise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “kum” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lech” appearsPaddan-aram
Paddan-aram, the plain of Aram in northern Mesopotamia, where Rebekah's family lived.
Where else “padena” appearshousehold
The family, everyone living under one roof.
Where else “beta” appearsBethuel
Bethuel, son of Nahor and father of Rebekah and Laban; also a place.
Where else “vetuel” appearsmother
The woman who gives birth to and raises her children, and who is owed honor.
Where else “ime” appearsfather
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “avi” appearstake a wife
"Take a wife": to marry.
Where else “kach” appearswife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “isha” appearsdaughter
A girl or woman born of her parents, who belongs to her father's house.
Where else “benot” appearsLaban
Laban, brother of Rebekah and father of Leah and Rachel, Jacob's father-in-law, who lived in Haran. Also a place in the wilderness.
Where else “lavan” appearsrelative
A close relative of the same family, like a nephew.
Where else “achi” appears1Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and commanded him and said to him, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.
2 · This verse (above)
3May El Shaddai bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you become an assembly of peoples.
1. What it says
What did Jacob dream at Bethel, and what did YHWH say to him (vv. 12-15)?
2. What it means
What does it mean that Elohim tells Jacob, “I am with you and will keep you,” in his flight (v. 15)?
3. How I live it
In what difficult place in your life do you need to remember that Elohim is with you?
