1. So Isaac called for Jacob, blessed him, and said, “You must not marry any of these Canaanite women.
2. Instead, go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of your uncle Laban’s daughters.
3. May God Almighty bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants multiply and become many nations!
4. May God pass on to you and your descendants the blessings he promised to Abraham. May you own this land where you are now living as a foreigner, for God gave this land to Abraham.”
5. So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to stay with his uncle Laban, his mother’s brother, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.
6. Esau knew that his father, Isaac, had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to find a wife, and that he had warned Jacob, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”
7. He also knew that Jacob had obeyed his parents and gone to Paddan-aram.