Genesis 28
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And Isaac called Jacob. And he blessed him and commanded him, and said to him,
You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. 2 Go up, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel
your mother's father. And take a wife for yourself from there, from the
daughters of Laban the brother of your mother. 3 And may God Almighty bless you
and make you fruitful, and add to you; and may you become an assembly of
nations. 4 And may He give to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your
seed with you, for you to possess the land of your travels, which God gave to
Abraham. 5 And Isaac sent away Jacob. And he went to Padan-aram,
to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean, brother of
Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. 6 And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed
Jacob, and had sent him away to Padan-aram to take a
wife for himself from there. In his blessing he had commanded him, saying, You
shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan; 7 and that Jacob listened
to his father and his mother, and went to Padan-aram.
8 And when Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the eyes of his
father Isaac, 9 then Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath
the daughter of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, Nebajoth's
sister. To his wives he added her for his wife. 10 And Jacob went out from
Beer-sheba and went toward Haran. 11 And he came on a
place and stayed the night there, for the sun had gone. And he took stones of
the place and placed them at his head; and he lay down in that place. 12 And he
dreamed. And, behold, a ladder was placed on the earth, its top reaching to the
heavens. And, behold, the angels of God were going up and going down on it! 13
And, behold, Jehovah stood above it and said, I am Jehovah the God of your
father Abraham, and the God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying, I will
give it to you and to your seed. 14 And your seed shall be as the dust of the
earth, and you shall spread to the west and to the east and to the north and to
the south; and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in
your Seed. 15 And, behold, I will be with you and will guard you in every place
in which you may go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not
forsake you until I have surely done that which I have spoken to you. 16 And
Jacob awakened from his sleep, and said, Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I
did not know. 17 And he was afraid, and said, How fearful is this place! This
is nothing except the house of God, and this is the door to Heaven. 18 And
Jacob started up early in the morning and took the stone which he had placed at
his head, and he placed it as a pillar; and he poured oil on the top of it. 19
And he called the name of that place, The House of God. And yet the name of the
city was at first Luz. 20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God is with me and
keeps me in this way which I am going, and gives to me bread to eat and
clothing to wear, 21 and I return in peace to the house of my father, then
Jehovah shall be my God, 22 and this stone which I have placed as a memorial
pillar shall become the house of God; and all which You shall give to me, I
will tithe the tenth to You.