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Chapter 28 |
| 1 | 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. |
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2 | Arise, go to Padanaram,
to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence
of the daughters of Laban thy mother's 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, Jacob's and Esau's 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;
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| 9 | Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had
Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be
his wife. |
| 10
| And Jacob went out from Beersheba, 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 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; |
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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.
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| 19 | And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city
was called Luz at the first. |
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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
father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: |
| 22 | And this
stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that
thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee. |
