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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