And
Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him,
Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel
thy mothers father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters
of Laban thy mothers brother.
3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee
fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee,
and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou
art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to
Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah,
Jacobs and Esaus mother.
6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and
sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he
blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of
the daughters of Canaan;
7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother,
and was gone to Padanaram;
8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan
pleased not Isaac his father;
9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the
wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abrahams son, the
sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went
toward Haran.
11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried
there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of
that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that
place to sleep.
12 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.
13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said,
I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the
land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth,
and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the
north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the
families of the earth be blessed.
15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will
keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee
again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that
which I have spoken to thee of.
16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said,
Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is
this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is
the gate of heaven.
18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took
the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for
a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but
the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
20 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,
21 So that I come again to my fathers house in
peace; then shall the LORD be my God:
22 And this stone, which I have set for a
pillar, shall be Gods house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will
surely give the tenth unto thee.