Gen 28
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And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him, You shall
not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
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Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother`s father. And take you
a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother`s brother.
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And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may
be a company of peoples.
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And give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you. That you
may inherit the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.
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And Isaac sent away Jacob. And he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the
Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob`s and Esau`s mother.
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Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take
him a wife from there. And that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, You
shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
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And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram.
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And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father.
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And Esau went to 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.
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And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
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And 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.
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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.
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And, behold, YHWH stood above it, and said, I am YHWH, the 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.
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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.
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And, behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever 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.
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And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely YHWH is in this place. And
I knew it not.
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And 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.
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And 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.
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And he called the name of that place Beth-el. But the name of the city was Luz at
the first.
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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,
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so that I come again to my father`s house in peace, and YHWH will be my God,
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then 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 to you.