28:1 So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and commanded him, ①saying to him, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.
▷ ①Lit and said to
28:2 Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
28:3 May ①God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a multitude of peoples.
▷ ①Heb El Shaddai
28:4 May He also give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your ①descendants with you, so that you may possess the land where you live as a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.”
▷ ①Lit seed
28:5 Then 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.
28:6 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, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”
28:7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.
28:8 So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan displeased ①his father Isaac;
▷ ①Lit in the eyes of his
28:9 and Esau went to Ishmael, and ①married, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth.
▷ ①Lit took for his wife
28:10 Then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran.
28:11 And he ①happened upon a ②particular 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.
▷ ①Lit lighted on ②Lit the place
28:12 And he had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
28:13 Then behold, the LORD was standing ①above it and said, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your ②descendants.
▷ ①Or beside him ②Lit seed
28:14 Your ①descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will ②spread out to the west and to the east, and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your ③descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
▷ ①Lit seed ②Lit break through ③Lit seed
28:15 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 ①promised you.”
▷ ①Lit spoken to
28:16 Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “The LORD is certainly in this place, and I did not know it!”
28:17 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!”
28:18 So Jacob got up early in the morning, and took 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.
28:19 Then he named that place ①Bethel; but ②previously the name of the city had been Luz.
▷ ①I.e., the house of God ②Lit at the first
28:20 Jacob also made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I ①take, and give me ②food to eat and garments to wear,
▷ ①Lit go ②Lit bread
28:21 and I return to my father’s house in ①safety, then the LORD will be my God.
▷ ①Lit peace
28:22 And this stone, which I have set up as a memorial stone, will be God’s house, and of everything that You give me I will assuredly give a tenth to You.”