Study it in the app“Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take for himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he commanded him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,””
EsauעֵשָׂוsawוַיַּרְאthatכִּיIsaacיִצְחָקhad blessedבֵרַךְJacobאֶת יַעֲקֹבand sent him awayוְשִׁלַּח אֹתוֹto Paddan-aramפַּדֶּנָה אֲרָםto takeלָקַחַתfor himselfלוֹa wifeאִשָּׁהfrom there,מִשָּׁםand that as he blessed himבְּבָרֲכוֹ אֹתוֹhe commandedוַיְצַוhim,עָלָיוsaying,לֵאמֹר“You shall not takeלֹא תִקַּחa wifeאִשָּׁהfrom the daughtersמִבְּנוֹתof Canaan,”כְּנָעַן
Esau
Esau, the elder son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Jacob; also called Edom, father of the Edomites. The name also stands for his descendants.
Where else “esav” appearsrealize
To realize: "he saw that it was good".
Where else “yar” appearsIsaac
Isaac, the son promised to Abraham and Sarah, father of Esau and Jacob. His name means "he laughs" (Genesis 17:17, 19; 21:6).
Where else “yitschak” appearsbless
God gives good things: life, children, harvests.
Where else “verach” appearsJacob
Jacob, the younger son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Esau and father of the twelve tribes. In Hebrew "Yaakov" sounds like "heel" and "supplant" (Genesis 25:26; 27:36). God later gave him the name Israel; the name also stands for his descendants, the people of Israel.
Where else “yaakov” appearssend away
To send away, or divorce one's wife.
Where else “shilach” appearsPaddan-aram
Paddan-aram, the plain of Aram in northern Mesopotamia, where Rebekah's family lived.
Where else “padena” appearstake a wife
"Take a wife": to marry.
Where else “kachat” appearswife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “isha” appearscommand
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “yetsav” appearscommand
To give someone an order with authority, so that it is done.
Where else “mor” appearsgirl
The young women of a people.
Where else “benot” appearsCanaan
See it on the mapWhere else “kenaan” appearsCanaan
Today: Israel, West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, western Syria
The land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, today Israel, Palestine and parts of Lebanon.
God promised this land to Abraham and his descendants (Gen 17:8). Israel entered it after forty years in the wilderness (Josh 5:12).
5So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
6 · This verse (above)
7and that Jacob had listened to his father and to his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.
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?
