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Genesis 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.
2
Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take
thee a wife from thence of the daughers of Laban thy mother's brother.
3 And
God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou
mayest be a multitude of people;
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.
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.
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 daughers of Canaan;
7 And
that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
8 And
Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
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.
10 And
Jacob went out from Beersheba, 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 of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows,
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, 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;
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 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.
16 And
Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord 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 but 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 for his
pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
19 And
he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called
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; then shall the Lord be my God:
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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