Quotes about Family
Now 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 28:6
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
- Genesis 28:7
And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
- Genesis 28:8
Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.
- Genesis 28:9
“Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”
- Genesis 29:6
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
- Genesis 29:9
As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.
- Genesis 29:10
He told Rachel that he was Rebekah’s son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.
- Genesis 29:12
When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.
- Genesis 29:13
Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,
- Genesis 29:14
Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
- Genesis 29:15
Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.
- Genesis 29:16