Font Size
Genesis 28:2-4
New King James Version
Genesis 28:2-4
New King James Version
2 (A)Arise, go to (B)Padan Aram, to the house of (C)Bethuel your mother’s father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of (D)Laban your mother’s brother.
3 “May (E)God Almighty bless you,
And make you (F)fruitful and multiply you,
That you may be an assembly of peoples;
4 And give you (G)the blessing of Abraham,
To you and your descendants with you,
That you may inherit the land
(H)In[a] which you are a stranger,
Which God gave to Abraham.”
Footnotes
- Genesis 28:4 Lit. Of your sojournings
Genesis 28:2-4
New International Version
Genesis 28:2-4
New International Version
2 Go at once to Paddan Aram,[a](A) to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel.(B) Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.(C) 3 May God Almighty[b](D) bless(E) you and make you fruitful(F) and increase your numbers(G) until you become a community of peoples. 4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham,(H) so that you may take possession of the land(I) where you now reside as a foreigner,(J) the land God gave to Abraham.”
Footnotes
- Genesis 28:2 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia; also in verses 5, 6 and 7
- Genesis 28:3 Hebrew El-Shaddai
Genesis 28:2-4
King James Version
Genesis 28:2-4
King James Version
2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughers of Laban thy mother's brother.
3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
4 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.
Read full chapter
Genesis 28:2-4
New American Standard Bible
Genesis 28:2-4
New American Standard Bible
2 Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of (A)Bethuel your mother’s father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. 3 May [a](B)God Almighty (C)bless you and (D)make you fruitful and (E)multiply you, so that you may become a (F)multitude of peoples. 4 May He also give you the (G)blessing of Abraham, to you and to your [b]descendants with you, so that you may (H)possess the land where you (I)live as a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.”
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Genesis 28:3 Heb El Shaddai
- Genesis 28:4 Lit seed
Genesis 28:2-4
English Standard Version
Genesis 28:2-4
English Standard Version
2 (A)Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of (B)Bethuel your mother's father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother. 3 (C)God Almighty[a] bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples. 4 May he give (D)the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of (E)the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!”
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Genesis 28:3 Hebrew El Shaddai
New King James Version (NKJV) 
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
New International Version (NIV) 
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.
New American Standard Bible (NASB) 
New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved.
English Standard Version (ESV) 
The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. ESV Text Edition: 2025.