Genesis 28
Jacob Is Sent Away
1 So Isaac called Jacob and ablessed him and commanded him, ▼▼Lit and said to
saying to him, “ cYou shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. 2Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of dBethuel your mother’s father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. 3May ▼▼Heb El Shaddai
fGod Almighty gbless you and hmake you fruitful and imultiply you, so that you may become a jmultitude of peoples. 4May He also give you the kblessing of Abraham, to you and to your ▼▼Lit seed
descendants with you, so that you may mpossess the land where you nlive as a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.” 5Then oIsaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. 6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take to himself a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, saying, “ pYou shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,” 7and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram. 8So Esau saw that qthe daughters of Canaan displeased ▼▼Lit in the eyes of his
his father Isaac; 9and Esau went to Ishmael, and ▼▼Lit took for his wife
married, tbesides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth. Jacob’s Dream
10 Then Jacob departed from uBeersheba and went toward vHaran. 11And he ▼▼Lit lighted on
happened upon a ▼▼Lit the place
yparticular place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and made it a support for his head, and lay down in that place. 12And zhe had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, aathe angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13Then behold, abthe Lord was standing ▼▼Or beside him
above it and said, “I am the Lord, adthe God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give aeto you and to afyour ▼▼Lit seed
descendants. 14Your ▼▼Lit seed
descendants will also be like aithe dust of the earth, and you will ▼▼Lit break through
spread out akto the west and to the east, and to the north and to the south; and alin you and in your ▼▼Lit seed
descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 15Behold, anI am with you and aowill keep you wherever you go, and apwill bring you back to this land; for aqI will not leave you until I have done what I have ▼▼Lit spoken to
promised you.” 16Then Jacob asawoke from his sleep and said, “ atThe Lord is certainly in this place, and I did not know it!” 17And he was afraid and said, “ auHow awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!” 18 So Jacob got up early in the morning, and took avthe stone that he had placed as a support for his head, and set it up as a memorial stone, and poured oil on its top. 19Then he named that place ▼▼I.e., the house of God
axBethel; but ▼▼Lit at the first
previously the name of the city had been azLuz. 20Jacob also bamade a vow, saying, “ bbIf God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I ▼▼Lit go
take, and give me ▼▼Lit bread
befood to eat and garments to wear, 21and bfI return to my father’s house in ▼▼Lit peace
safety, bhthen the Lord will be my God. 22And this stone, which I have set up as a memorial stone, biwill be God’s house, and bjof everything that You give me I will assuredly give a tenth to You.”
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