GE-28:1  And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged

him, and

said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of

Canaan.

GE-28:2  Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy

mother's

father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of

Laban thy

mother's brother.

GE-28:3  And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and

multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

GE-28:4  And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to

thy

seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou

art a

stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.

GE-28:5  And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto

Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah,

Jacob's and

Esau's mother.

GE-28:6  When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent

him away

to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he

blessed

him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of

the

daughters of Canaan;

GE-28:7  And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and

was gone

to Padanaram;

GE-28:8  And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not

Isaac his father;

GE-28:9  Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives

which he

had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of

Nebajoth, to be his wife.

GE-28:10  And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward

Haran.

GE-28:11  And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there

all

night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that

place, and put [them for] his pillows, and lay down in that

place to

sleep.

GE-28:12  And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the

earth, and

the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God

ascending and descending on it.

GE-28:13  And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I [am]

the

LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land

whereon

thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;

GE-28:14  And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and

thou

shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the

north,

and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the

families

of the earth be blessed.

GE-28:15  And, behold, I [am] with thee, and will keep thee in

all

[places] whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this

land;

for I will not leave thee, until I have done [that] which I have

spoken to thee of.

GE-28:16  And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely

the

LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not.

GE-28:17  And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful [is] this

place!

this [is] none other but the house of God, and this [is] the

gate of

heaven.

GE-28:18  And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the

stone

that he had put [for] his pillows, and set it up [for] a pillar,

and

poured oil upon the top of it.

GE-28:19  And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the

name of

that city [was called] Luz at the first.

GE-28:20  And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me,

and

will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to

eat, and

raiment to put on,

GE-28:21  So that I come again to my father's house in peace;

then

shall the LORD be my God:

GE-28:22  And this stone, which I have set [for] a pillar, shall

be

God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely

give the

tenth unto thee.



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