Place
Paddan-aram
Summary
The region of Laban's household where Jacob sojourns, marries, and prospers (Gen 28–31).
- Among the passages here, Paddan-aram is first named in Genesis 25:20: “and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel…”
- The record places Paddan-aram in Upper Mesopotamia.
- 10 verses name Paddan-aram, in 1 book.
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- Upper Mesopotamia
Paddan-aram in Scripture
10 verses name it, in 1 book
Open a book to read its mentions here. Text: Berean Standard Bible.
First namedGenesis 25:20and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.Last namedGenesis 46:15These are the sons of Leah born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. The total number of sons and daughters was thirty-three.
Old Testament1 book · 10 mentions
Genesis10 mentions
- Genesis 25:20and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
- Genesis 28:2“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
- Genesis 28:5So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
- Genesis 28:6Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
- Genesis 28:7and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
- Genesis 31:18and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.
- Genesis 33:18After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.
- Genesis 35:9After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
2 further mentions in Genesis, read them in the book.
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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.
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