Genesis:28
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Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him ,
and charged him ,
and said to him : "
You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan .
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Arise ,
go to Padan Aram ,
to the house of Bethuel your mother '
s father ;
and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother '
s brother .
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May God Almighty bless you ,
And make you fruitful and multiply you ,
That you may be an assembly of peoples ;
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And give you the blessing of Abraham ,
To you and your descendants with you ,
That you may inherit the land In which you are a stranger ,
Which God gave to Abraham ."
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So Isaac sent Jacob away ,
and he went to Padan Aram ,
to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian ,
the brother of Rebekah ,
the mother of Jacob and Esau .
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Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Padan Aram to take himself a wife from there ,
and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge ,
saying , "
You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan ,"
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and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Padan Aram .
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Also Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan did not please his father Isaac .
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So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael ,
Abraham '
s son ,
the sister of Nebajoth ,
to be his wife in addition to the wives he had .
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Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran .
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So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night ,
because the sun had set .
And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head ,
and he lay down in that place to sleep .
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Then he dreamed ,
and behold ,
a ladder was set up on the earth ,
and its top reached to heaven ;
and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it .
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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 on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants .
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Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth ;
you shall spread abroad to the west and the east ,
to the north and the south ;
and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed .
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Behold ,
I am with you and will keep you wherever you go ,
and will bring you back to this land ;
for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you ."
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Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said , "
Surely the LORD is in this place ,
and I did not know it ."
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And he was afraid and said , "
How awesome is this place !
This is none other than the house of God ,
and this is the gate of heaven !"
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Then Jacob rose early in the morning ,
and took the stone that he had put at his head ,
set it up as a pillar ,
and poured oil on top of it .
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And he called the name of that place Bethel ;
but the name of that city had been Luz previously .
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Then Jacob made a vow ,
saying , "
If God will be with me ,
and keep me in this way that I am going ,
and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on ,
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so that I come back to my father '
s house in peace ,
then the LORD shall be my God .
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And this stone which I have set as a pillar shall be God '
s house ,
and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You ."