Bible verse

Genesis 28:1

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.

Genesis 28:1 · BSB

Genesis 28:1 in context

The verses around it, from Genesis 28.

1 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.

2 “Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

3 May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

4 And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”

5 So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Genesis 28:1 in other translations

KJV

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

ASV

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

ERV

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

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