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Jacob Is Sent to Laban

¹ So Isaac called Jacob and ^(C1)blessed him and commanded him and said to him, "^(C2)You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.² "Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of ^(C1)Bethuel your mother's father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.³ "May ^(F1)(C1)God Almighty ^(C2)bless you and ^(C3)make you fruitful and ^(C4)multiply you, that you may become an ^(C5)assembly of peoples.⁴ "May He also give you the ^(C1)blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed with you, that you may ^(C2)possess the land of your ^(C3)sojournings, which God gave to Abraham."⁵ Then ^(C1)Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

⁶ And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take for himself a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, saying, "^(C1)You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,"⁷ and that Jacob had listened to his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.⁸ So Esau saw that ^(C1)the daughters of Canaan were displeasing ^(F1)in the sight of his father Isaac;⁹ and Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife, ^(C1)besides the wives that he had.

Jacob's Dream

¹⁰ Then Jacob departed from ^(C1)Beersheba and went toward ^(C2)Haran.¹¹ And he reached ^(F1)a ^(C1)certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it ^(F2)under his head and lay down in that place.^12 (C1)Then he had a dream, and behold, a ^(F1)ladder stood on the earth with its top touching heaven; and behold, ^(C2)the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.¹³ And behold, ^(C1)Yahweh stood ^(F1)above it and said, "I am Yahweh, ^(C2)the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it ^(C3)to you and to ^(C4)your seed.¹⁴ "And your seed will also be like ^(C1)the dust of the earth, and you will ^(F1)spread out ^(C2)to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and ^(C3)in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.¹⁵ "Behold, ^(C1)I am with you and ^(C2)will keep you wherever you go. And ^(C3)I will bring you back to this land; for ^(C4)I will not forsake you until I have done what I have ^(F1)promised you."¹⁶ Then Jacob ^(C1)awoke from his sleep and said, "^(C2)Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I did not know it."¹⁷ And he was afraid and said, "^(C1)How fearsome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."

¹⁸ So Jacob rose early in the morning and took ^(C1)the stone that he had put ^(F1)under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on its top.¹⁹ And he called the name of that place ^(F1)(C1)Bethel; however, ^(F2)previously the name of the city had been ^(C2)Luz.²⁰ Then Jacob ^(C1)made a vow, saying, "^(C2)If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey on which I am going, and will give me ^(F1)(C3)food to eat and garments to wear,²¹ and ^(C1)I return to my father's house in peace, ^(C2)then Yahweh will be my God.²² "Now this stone, which I have set up as a pillar, ^(C1)will be God's house, and ^(C2)of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You."