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Jacob Is Sent Away

¹ So Isaac called Jacob and ^(C1)blessed him and commanded him, ^(F1)saying 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, so that you may become a ^(C5)multitude of peoples.⁴ "May He also give you the ^(C1)blessing of Abraham, to you and to your ^(F1)descendants with you, so that you may ^(C2)possess the land where you ^(C3)live as a stranger, 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 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take to 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 obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.⁸ So Esau saw that ^(C1)the daughters of Canaan displeased ^(F1)his father Isaac;⁹ and Esau went to Ishmael, and ^(F1)married, ^(C1)besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth.

Jacob's Dream

¹⁰ Then Jacob departed from ^(C1)Beersheba and went toward ^(C2)Haran.¹¹ And he ^(F1)happened upon a ^(F2)(C1)particular place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and made it a support for his head, and lay down in that place.¹² And ^(C1)he had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, ^(C2)the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.¹³ Then behold, ^(C1)the LORD was standing ^(F1)above it and said, "I am the LORD, ^(C2)the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give ^(C3)to you and to ^(C4)your ^(F2)descendants.¹⁴ "Your ^(F1)descendants will also be like ^(C1)the dust of the earth, and you will ^(F2)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 ^(F1)descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.¹⁵ "Behold, ^(C1)I am with you and ^(C2)will keep you wherever you go, and ^(C3)will bring you back to this land; for ^(C4)I will not leave you until I have done what I have ^(F1)promised you."¹⁶ Then Jacob ^(C1)awoke from his sleep and said, "^(C2)The LORD is certainly in this place, and I did not know it!"¹⁷ And he was afraid and said, "^(C1)How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!"

¹⁸ So Jacob got up early in the morning, and took ^(C1)the stone that he had placed as a support for his head, and set it up as a memorial stone, and poured oil on its top.¹⁹ Then he named that place ^(F1)(C1)Bethel; but ^(F2)previously the name of the city had been ^(C2)Luz.²⁰ Jacob also ^(C1)made a vow, saying, "^(C2)If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I ^(F1)take, and give me ^(F2)(C3)food to eat and garments to wear,²¹ and ^(C1)I return to my father's house in ^(F1)safety, ^(C2)then the LORD will be my God.²² "And this stone, which I have set up as a memorial stone, ^(C1)will be God's house, and ^(C2)of everything that You give me I will assuredly give a tenth to You."