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Genesis 28:4-8 Common English Bible (CEB)

4. He will give you and your descendants Abraham’s blessing so that you will own the land in which you are now immigrants, the land God gave to Abraham."

5. So Isaac sent Jacob off, and he traveled to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau’s mother.

6. Esau understood that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to marry a woman from there. He recognized that, when Isaac blessed Jacob, he had ordered him, "Don’t marry a Canaanite woman,"

7. and that Jacob had listened to his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.

8. Esau realized that his father Isaac considered Canaanite women unacceptable.

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