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Padan

Meaning: a plain

This name occurs only in Genesis 48, where it refers to Padan-aram.

And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem. —Genesis 48:7 KJV

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