Quotes about Family
Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s fury subsides—
— Genesis 27:44
until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
— Genesis 27:45
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
— Genesis 27:46
So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.
— Genesis 28:1
“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
— Genesis 28:2
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
— Genesis 28:5
Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
— Genesis 28:6
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
— Genesis 28:7
And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
— Genesis 28:8
Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.
— Genesis 28:9
“Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”
— Genesis 29:6
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
— Genesis 29:9