Discovery BoxGenesis 28:2 
Context28:2 Leave immediately 1 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.
Genesis 28:5-7
Context28:5 So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
28:6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. 2 As he blessed him, 3 Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.” 4 28:7 Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.
1 tn Heb “Arise! Go!” The first of the two imperatives is adverbial and stresses the immediacy of the departure.
2 tn Heb “to take for himself from there a wife.”
3 tn The infinitive construct with the preposition and the suffix form a temporal clause.
4 tn Heb “you must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”
