Genesis Chapter 28

Genesis Chapter 28
1 Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed
him, and charged him, and said unto him,
Take not a wife of the daughters of
Canaan.
2 Arise, get thee to Padan-aram to the
house of Bethuel thy mother’s father, and
thence take thee a wife of the daughters
of Laban thy mother’s brother. 3 And
God all sufficient bless thee, and make
thee to increase, and multiply thee, that
thou mayest be a multitude of people,
4 And give thee the blessing of
Abraham, even 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 Thus Isaac sent forth Jacob, and he
went to Padan-aram unto Laban son of
Bethuel the Aramite [Syrian], brother to
Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother. 6
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed
Jacob, and sent him to Padanaram, to set
him a wife thence, and given him a
charge when he blessed him, saying,
Thou shalt not take a wife of the
daughters of Canaan,
7 And that Jacob had obeyed his father
and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram:
8 Also Esau seeing that the daughters of
Canaan displeased Isaac his father, 9
Then went Esau to Ishmael, and took
unto the wives, which he had, Mahalath
the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son,
the sister of Nabajoth, to be his wife.
10 Now Jacob departed from Beersheba,
and went to Haran,
11 And he came unto a certain place,
and tarried there all night, because the
sun was down, and took of the stones of
the place, and laid under his head and
slept in the same place.
12 Then he dreamed, and behold, there
stood a ladder upon the earth, and the
top of it reached up to heaven: and lo,
the Angels of God went up and down by
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,
upon the which thou sleepest, will I give
thee and 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 lo, I am with thee, and
will keep thee whithersoever thou goest,
and will bring thee again into this land:
for I will not forsake thee until I have
performed that, that I have promised
thee.
16 Then Jacob awoke out of his sleep,
and said, Surely the Lord is in this place,
and I was not aware.
17 And he was afraid, and said, How
fearful is this place! This is none other
but the house of God, and this is the gate
of heaven.
18 Then Jacob rose up early in the
morning, and took the stone that he had
laid under his head, and set it up as a
pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
19 And he called the name of that place
Bethel: notwithstanding the name of the
city was at the first called Luz.
20 Then Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If
God will be with me, and will keep me
in this journey which I go, and will give
me bread to eat, and clothes to put on:
21 So that I come again unto my father’s
house in safety, then shall the Lord be
my God.
22 And this stone, which I have set up as
a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all
that thou shalt give me, will I give the
tenth unto thee.