The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 28:5

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And Isaac sent away Jacob (Rebekah only counseled, Isaac commanded): and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethel the Syrian (vide Hosea 12:12), the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

The historian here perhaps intentionally gives the first place to Jacob.

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