28:6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. 1 As he blessed him, 2 Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.” 3 28:7 Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.
1 tn Heb “to take for himself from there a wife.”
2 tn The infinitive construct with the preposition and the suffix form a temporal clause.
3 tn Heb “you must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”