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Padan-aram
Region mentioned in 11 verses of the Bible, most often in Genesis.
Journeys through Padan-aram
- Abraham (c. 2000 BC (traditional))
Where it appears
Genesis (11)
Key verses
- Genesis 25:20 first mention — And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
- Genesis 28:2 — Arise, go to Padan-aram, 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.
- Genesis 28:5 — And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
- Genesis 28:6 — When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
- Genesis 28:7 — And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;
- Genesis 31:18 — And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 33:18 — And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city.
- Genesis 35:9 — And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.
- Genesis 35:26 — And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.
- Genesis 46:15 — These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
- Genesis 48:7 — And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth-lehem.
Nearby places
- Haran 0 km
- Mesopotamia 0 km
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