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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.
02 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of
Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife
from thence of the daughers of Laban thy mother's
brother.
03 And God Almighty bless thee, and make
thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou
mayest be a multitude of people;
04 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.
05 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.
06 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 daughers of Canaan;
07 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his
mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
08 And Esau seeing that the daughters of
Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
09 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.
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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.
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