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Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother`s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother`s brother.
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A Command to Marry in Faith
Isaac's command for Jacob to find a wife from his mother's family, not the Canaanites, is presented by commentators as a foundational spiritual principle. Matthew Henry frames it as a lesson for believers not to marry those outside the faith, thereby protecting the covenant line and securing the 'blessing of Abraham.'
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18th Century
Presbyterian
קהל qâhāl — “congregation.”
מחלת māchălat — Machalath, “sickness, or a harp.”
לוּז l…
19th Century
Anglican
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29).
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.
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16th Century
Protestant
Arise, go to Padan-aram. In the first place, he commands him to take a wife from his mother's kindred. He might have sent for her by one o…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Arise, go to Padanaram Of this place, (See Gill on Genesis 25:20); either he is bid to go directly, in haste and…
Jacob had blessings promised concerning both this world and the world to come; yet goes out to a hard service. This corrected him for his deception…
