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Genesis 28:1

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

KJV

Vocavit itaque Isaac Jacob, et benedixit eum, præcepitque ei dicens : Noli accipere conjugem de genere Chanaan :

Vulgate

προσκαλεσάμενος δὲ Ἰσαὰκ τὸν Ἰακὼβ εὐλόγησεν αὐτόν, καὶ ἐνετείλατο αὐτῷ λέγων Οὐ λήμψῃ γυναῖκα ἐκ τῶν θυγατέρων Χανάαν·

LXX

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

ASV

וַ/יִּקְרָ֥א יִצְחָ֛ק אֶֽל יַעֲקֹ֖ב וַ/יְבָ֣רֶךְ אֹת֑/וֹ וַ/יְצַוֵּ֨/הוּ֙ וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר ל֔/וֹ לֹֽא תִקַּ֥ח אִשָּׁ֖ה מִ/בְּנ֥וֹת כְּנָֽעַן

Hebrew

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In this verse

People CanaanIsaacJacobJacob

In the original Hebrew

13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
בַּת
bt
noun · 585×
בָּר֥וּךְ
brvk
verb · 324×
וֹ
v
noun · 780×
יִצְחָ֖ק
ytschq
proper_noun · 108×
יַעֲקֹ֖ב
y'qb
proper_noun · 346×
יִּקְרָ֥א
yqr'
verb · 737×
יִּקַּ֣ח
yqch
verb · 963×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
כְּנָ֑עַן
kn'n
proper_noun · 94×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
צִוָּ֥ה
tsvh
verb · 489×

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Chapter 38.—Of Jacob’s Mission to Mesopotamia to Get a Wife, and of the Vision Which He Saw in a Dream by the Way, and of His Getting Four Women When He Sought One Wife. Jacob was sent by his parents to Mesopotamia that he might take a wife there. These were his father’s words on sending him: “Thou shall not take a wife of the daughters of the Canaanites. Arise, fly to Mesopota…

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 6:14 — Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
  • Deut 33:1 — And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
  • Exod 34:15 — Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
  • Gen 6:2 — That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
  • Gen 24:3 — And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
  • Gen 24:37 — And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:
  • Gen 25:1 — Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
  • Gen 26:34 — And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
  • Gen 27:27 — And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
  • Gen 27:46 — And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall
  • Gen 28:3 — And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
  • Gen 28:6 — When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, 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 d
  • Gen 28:8 — And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
  • Gen 31:55 — And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.
  • Gen 49:28 — All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
  • Jer 29:6 — Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminishe
  • Josh 22:7 — Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given possession in Bashan: but unto the other half thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent t
  • Prov 19:14 — House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.