Genesis 28:2
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“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.
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and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife— for a wife he tended sheep.
These are the sons of Leah born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. The total number of sons and daughters was thirty-three.
Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.
Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.
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.
I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.
and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.