Gen 28 | NASB2020 | STEP | So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and commanded him, saying to him, “ You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan .

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. 2 Arise, 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. 3 May ^{▼▼Heb El Shaddai
,} ^fGod Almighty ^gbless you and ^hmake you fruitful and ⁱmultiply you, so that you may become a ^jmultitude of peoples. 4 May 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.” 5 Then ^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,” 7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram. 8 So Esau saw that ^qthe daughters of Canaan displeased ^{▼▼Lit in the eyes of his}his father Isaac; 9 and 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. 11 And 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. 12 And ^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. 13 Then 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. 14 Your ^{▼▼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. 15 Behold, ^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.” 16 Then Jacob ^asawoke from his sleep and said, “ ^atThe Lord is certainly in this place, and I did not know it!” 17 And 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. 19 Then 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. 20 Jacob 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, 21 and ^bfI return to my father’s house in ^{▼▼Lit peace}safety, ^bhthen the Lord will be my God. 22 And 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.”