28Genesis 28

1Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.Select Genesis 28:1

2Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.Select Genesis 28:2

3May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,Select Genesis 28:3

4and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”Select Genesis 28:4

5Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah’s brother, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.Select Genesis 28:5

6Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,”Select Genesis 28:6

7and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.Select Genesis 28:7

8Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.Select Genesis 28:8

9Esau went to 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.Select Genesis 28:9

10Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.Select Genesis 28:10

11He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.Select Genesis 28:11

12He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.Select Genesis 28:12

13Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.Select Genesis 28:13

14Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.Select Genesis 28:14

15Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”Select Genesis 28:15

16Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”Select Genesis 28:16

17He was afraid, and said, “How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”Select Genesis 28:17

18Jacob 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 on its top.Select Genesis 28:18

19He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.Select Genesis 28:19

20Jacob 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 clothing to put on,Select Genesis 28:20

21so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,Select Genesis 28:21

22then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you.”Select Genesis 28:22