Places
Paddan-Aram
Paddan-Aram is the homeland of Bethuel, Rebekah, and Laban; in Genesis 48 Jacob recalls Rachel's death on the way from Paddan.
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Places
First mention
Genesis 25:20
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Scripture references
- Genesis 25:20
Rebekah the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-Aram...
- Genesis 28:2
Go off to Paddan-Aram, the home of Bethuel your mother's father, and there choose a wife for yourself from the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
- Genesis 28:5
Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and Jacob went to Paddan-Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramaean...
- Genesis 31:18
and drove off all his livestock -- with all the possessions he had acquired, the livestock belonging to him which he had acquired in Paddan-Aram -- to go to his father Isaac in Canaan.
- Genesis 35:9
God again appeared to Jacob on his return from Paddan-Aram, and blessed him.
- Genesis 35:26
The sons of Zilpah, Leah's slave-girl: Gad and Asher. These were the sons born to Jacob in Paddan-Aram.
- Genesis 46:15
These were the sons that Leah had borne to Jacob in Paddan-Aram, besides his daughter Dinah; in all, his sons and daughters numbered thirty-three.
- Genesis 48:7
'When I was on my way from Paddan, to my sorrow death took your mother Rachel from me in Canaan, on the journey while only a short distance from Ephrath. I buried her there on the road to Ephrath -- now Bethlehem.'