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Genesis 28:1-4

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28:1 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman! 1  28:2 Leave immediately 2  for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. 28:3 May the sovereign God 3  bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! 4  Then you will become 5  a large nation. 6  28:4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham 7  so that you may possess the land 8  God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.” 9 

1 tn Heb “you must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”

2 tn Heb “Arise! Go!” The first of the two imperatives is adverbial and stresses the immediacy of the departure.

3 tn Heb “El Shaddai.” See the extended note on the phrase “sovereign God” in Gen 17:1.

4 tn Heb “and make you fruitful and multiply you.” See Gen 17:6, 20 for similar terminology.

5 tn The perfect verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive here indicates consequence. The collocation הָיָה + preposition לְ (hayah + lÿ) means “become.”

6 tn Heb “an assembly of peoples.”

7 tn Heb “and may he give to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you.” The name “Abraham” is an objective genitive here; this refers to the blessing that God gave to Abraham.

8 tn The words “the land” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

9 tn Heb “the land of your sojournings,” that is, the land where Jacob had been living as a resident alien, as his future descendants would after him.



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