OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 28:2

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Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

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Verse 2. Take. Septuagint “flee;” as if Isaac began at last to be apprized of Esau’s designs. Wisdom (10:10) conducted the just when he fled from his brother’s wrath, and so forth—Thy uncle. He points out the house, but leaves the woman to his choice.

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