Genesis:28

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* And Isaac summoned Jacob and blessed him , and charged him , and said to him : You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan . * Arise , go to Paddan , 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 . * May God Almighty bless you , and make you fruitful and multiply you , that you may become an assembly of peoples ; * and give you the blessing of Abraham , to you and your seed with you , that you may inherit the land in which you are a sojourner , which God has given to Abraham . * And Isaac sent Jacob away , and he went to Paddan , to Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramean , the brother of Rebekah , the mother of Jacob and Esau . * And when Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan 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 , * and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan ; * and Esau also saw that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the eyes of his father Isaac ; * that Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael , Abraham ’s son , the sister of Nebajoth , to be his wife along with the wives he had . * And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba and went toward Haran . * And 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 . * And he dreamed , and behold , a ladder was set up on the earth , and its top reached to the heavens ; and behold the angels of God were ascending and descending on it . * And behold , Jehovah stood above it and said : I am Jehovah the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac ; the land on which you are lying I give to you and your seed . * And your seed 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 . * Behold , I am with you and will keep you wherever you go , and will bring you back to this land ; for I am not forsaking you until I have done what I have spoken to you . * And Jacob awoke from his sleep and said , Surely Jehovah is in this place , and I did not realize it . * 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 ! * And Jacob arose 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 . * And he called the name of that place Bethel ; but the name of that city had formerly been Luz . * And Jacob vowed 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 , * so that I return to my father ’s house in peace , then Jehovah shall be my God . * And this stone which I have set as a pillar shall be God ’s house , and of all that You give me I will tithe to give a tithe to You .

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