| 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. |
|
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; |
| 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. |
| 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 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. |
