2Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor; …
And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.
And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Jacob had no sooner obtained the blessing than immediately he was forced to flee from his country; and, as it if were not enough that he was a stranger and sojourner there, he must go to be more so, and no better than an exile, in another country. Now Jacob fled into Syria , Hos. 12:12. He was blessed with plenty of corn and wine, and yet he went away poor, was blessed with government, and yet wen…
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