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GENESIS · Chapter 28
28:1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said
unto him, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
28:2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's
father; and take you a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban your
mother's brother.
28:3 And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply
you, that you may be a multitude of people;
28:4 And give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed
with you; that you may inherit the land wherein you are a stranger, which
God gave unto Abraham.
28:5 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.
28:6 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, You shall not take a wife of the daughters
of Canaan;
28:7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone
to Padanaram;
28:8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac
his father;
28:9 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.
28:10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
28:11 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.
28:12 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.
28:13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD
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;
28:14 And 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 you and in your seed shall all the families of the earth
be blessed.
28:15 And, behold, I am with you, and will keep you in all places where
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 to you of.
28:16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD
is in this place; and I knew it not.
28:17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this
is no other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
28:18 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.
28:19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of
that city was called Luz at the first.
28:20 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,
28:21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall
the LORD be my God:
28:22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's
house: and of all that you shall give me I will surely give the tenth unto
you.
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