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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 28, Verse 1

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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 my life do me?
King James Version
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.
American Standard Version
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.
New English Translation
So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him,“You must not marry a Canaanite woman!
World English Bible
Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
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Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
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And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
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And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
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And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
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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 daughters of Canaan;
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And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
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And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
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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, to be his wife.
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And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
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And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put [them for] his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.