Genesis 28
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1Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. Then he charged him and said to him, “You must not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. # Ge 24:3; 27:46 2Arise, go to Paddan Aram # Hos 12:12 to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father, and take for yourself a wife from there, from the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother. # Ge 25:20 3May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a multitude of people. # Ge 35:11; 48:3 4May He give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and your descendants with you, that you may inherit the land where you are a stranger, # Ps 39:12 which God gave to Abraham.” 5Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan Aram to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
6Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram to take for himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, “You must not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,” 7and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan Aram. 8Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan did not please Isaac his father. # Ge 24:3; 26:34–35; 28:1 9So Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, # Ge 36:3 in addition to the wives he had.
Jacob’s Dream at Bethel
10Then Jacob went out from Beer-sheba and went toward Harran. # Ge 11:31; Ac 7:2 11He came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of that place and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. 12And he dreamed, # Nu 12:6 and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. The angels of God were ascending and descending on it. # Jn 1:51 13And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, “I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie, to you will I give it and to your descendants. # Ge 13:15; 26:24 14Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, # Ge 13:14 and in you and in your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed. # Ge 12:3 15Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. # Ge 26:24; 31:3 For I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you.”
16Jacob awoke out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.” # Ex 3:5; Jos 5:15 17He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”
18So Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put under his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it. # Ge 31:13; 35:14 19He called the name of that place Bethel, but previously the name of the city was called Luz. # Ge 48:3
20Jacob vowed a vow, # Ge 31:13; 2Sa 15:8 saying, “If God will be with me and will protect me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to put on, 21so that I return to my father’s house in peace, # Jdg 11:31 then the Lord will be my God. # Dt 26:17 22Then this stone, which I have set for a pillar, will be the house of God, # Ge 35:7 and from all that You give me I will surely give one-tenth to You.” # Ge 14:20
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Genesis 28
28
1 And so Isaac called for Jacob, and he blessed him, and he instructed him, saying: "Do not be willing to accept a mate from the family of Canaan.
2 But go, and journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there accept for yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your maternal uncle.
3 And may God almighty bless you, and may he cause you to increase and also to multiply, so that you may be influential among the people.
4 And may he give the blessings of Abraham to you, and to your offspring after you, so that you may possess the land of your sojourning, which he promised to your grandfather."
5 And when Isaac had dismissed him, setting out, he went to Mesopotamia of Syria, to Laban, the son of Bethuel, the Syrian, the brother to Rebekah, his mother.
6 But Esau, seeing that his father had blessed Jacob and had sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria, to take a wife from there, and that, after the blessing, he had instructed him, saying: 'You shall not accept a wife from the daughters of Canaan,'
7 and that Jacob, obeying his parents, had gone into Syria,
8 having evidence also that his father did not look with favor upon the daughters of Canaan,
9 he went to Ishmael, and he took as a wife, beside those he had before, Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth.
10 Meanwhile Jacob, having departed from Beersheba, continued on to Haran.
11 And when he had arrived at a certain place, where he would rest after the setting of the sun, he took some of the stones that lay there, and placing them under his head, he slept in the same place.
12 And he saw in his sleep: a ladder standing upon the earth, with its top touching heaven, also, the Angels of God ascending and descending by it,
13 and the Lord, leaning upon the ladder, saying to him: "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land, in which you sleep, I will give to you and to your offspring.
14 And your offspring will be like the dust of the earth. You will spread abroad to the West, and to the East, and to the North, and to the Meridian. And in you and in your offspring, all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed.
15 And I will be your guardian wherever you will journey, and I will bring you back into this land. Neither will I dismiss you, until I have accomplished all that I have said."
16 And when Jacob had awakened from sleep, he said, "Truly, the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it."
17 And being terrified, he said: "How terrible this place is! This is nothing other than the house of God and the gateway of heaven."
18 Therefore, Jacob, arising in the morning, took the stone which he had placed under his head, and he set it up as monument, pouring oil over it.
19 And he called the name of the city, 'Bethel,' which before was called Luz.
20 And then he made a vow, saying: "If God will be with me, and will guard me along the way by which I walk, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,
21 and if I will return prosperously to my father's house, then the Lord will be my God,
22 and this stone, which I have set up as a monument, will be called 'the House of God.' And from all the things that you will give to me, I will offer tithes to you."
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