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Genesis 28

¹And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. ²Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. And take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. ³And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that you mayest be a company of peoples. ⁴And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to your seed with thee. That you mayest inherit the land of your sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham. ⁵And 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. ⁶Now 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 shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. ⁷And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram. ⁸And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father. ⁹And 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. ¹⁰And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. ¹¹And 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. ¹²And 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. ¹³And, behold, YHWH stood above it, and said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you liest, to thee will I give it, and to your seed. ¹⁴And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. And in thee and in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. ¹⁵And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee, whithersoever you 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. ¹⁶And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely YHWH is in this place. And I knew it not. ¹⁷And 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. ¹⁸And 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. ¹⁹And he called the name of that place Beth-el. But the name of the city was Luz at the first. ²⁰And 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, ²¹so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and YHWH will be my God, ²²then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house. And of all that you shall give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.

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