Place
Paddan-aram
The region of Laban's household where Jacob sojourns, marries, and prospers (Gen 28–31).
Where it is
- Region
- Upper Mesopotamia
Paddan-aram in Scripture
10 verses name it — all of them- Genesis 25:20and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
- Genesis 28:2Arise, go to Paddan-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 28:5And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
- Genesis 28:6Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-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 28:7and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram:
- Genesis 31:18and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 33:18And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and encamped before the city.
- Genesis 35:9And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
- Genesis 35:26and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid: Gad and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Paddan-aram.
- Genesis 46:15These are the sons of Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
The account
The 'field of Aram' around Haran, home of Bethuel and Laban; where Jacob flees, serves for Leah and Rachel, and fathers eleven sons before returning to Canaan.