| 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. 2 Arise,
go to Paddan-aram, 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. 3 And
God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou
mayest be a company of peoples. 4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham,
to thee, and to thy seed with thee. That thou mayest inherit the land of thy
sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham. 5 And Isaac sent away Jacob. And
he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of
Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to
Paddan-aram, 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. 7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to
Paddan-aram. 8 And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac
his father. 9 And Esau went unto Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that
he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of
Nebaioth, to be his wife.
10 And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. 11 And he
lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun
was set. And he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his
head, and lay down in that place to sleep. 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. 13 And, behold,
Jehovah stood above it, and said, I am Jehovah, the 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. 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. 15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep
thee, whithersoever 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.
16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely Jehovah is in
this place. And I knew it not. 17 And he was afraid, and said, How
dreadful is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is
the gate of heaven.
18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had
put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top
of it. 19 And he called the name of that place Beth-el. But the name of
the city was Luz at the first. 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, 21 so that I come again to my
father's house in peace, and Jehovah will be my God, 22 then this stone,
which I have set up 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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