Genesis 28:10

Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and started walking along the road to Haran.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.

In Context

9Because of that, Esau went to see his uncle Ishmael, and married Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael. Mahalath was the sister of Nabaioth and the granddaughter of Abraham.

11When he arrived at a certain place, he stopped there, because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones there and put it under his head to use as a pillow. Then he lay down and slept there.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:31Terah decided to leave Ur and go to live in Canaan land. So he took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and Abram’s wife Sarai with him. But instead of going to Canaan, they stopped at Haran town and lived there.

Genesis 35:1Some time later God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel, and live there. Build an altar to worship me, God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your older brother Esau.”

Hosea 12:12Your ancestor Jacob fled from his brother Esau and went to northwest Mesopotamia. He worked for his uncle Laban for many years to get a wife; he took care of his uncle’s sheep to pay for her.

Acts 25:13After several days, King Herod Agrippa arrived at Caesarea, along with his younger sister Bernice. They had come to formally welcome Festus as the new Governor of the province.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 28:7-10

6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan; 7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram; 8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; 9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth,… Read the whole commentary →

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