Gen 28 | ABEn | STEP | [ 3 having called 1 And 2 Isaac] Jacob, blessed him, and gave charge to him, saying, Not shall you take a wife from the daughters of the Canaanites.

‏ Genesis 28

CHAPTER 28 Jacob Sent to Laban

1 [³having called ¹And ²Isaac] Jacob, blessed him, and gave charge to him, saying, Not shall you take a wife from the daughters of the Canaanites. 2 Having risen up, you run away unto Mesopotamia to the house of Bethuel the father of your mother! and take to yourself from there a wife from the daughters of Laban the brother of your mother! 3 And [²my God ¹may ³bless] you, and increase you, and multiply you; and you will be for gatherings of nations. 4 And may he give to you the blessing of Abraham, my father, to you, and your seed after you; to inherit the land of your sojourning, which God gave to Abraham. 5 And Isaac sent Jacob. And he went into Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. 6 [³having seen ¹And ²Esau] that Isaac blessed Jacob, and sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria to take to himself a wife from there -- in the blessing him, and gave charge to him, saying, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of the Canaanites, 7 that Jacob hearkened to [²father ³and ⁴mother ¹his], and went into Mesopotamia of Syria, 8 and seeing, even Esau, that [⁴are wicked ¹the ²daughters ³of Canaan] before Isaac his father, 9 that Esau went to Ishmael, and he took Mahalath daughter of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, sister of Nebajoth, to his wives, as a wife. 10 And Jacob went forth from the Well of the Oath, and went into Haran.

The Stairway to Heaven

11 And he encountered a place, and slept there, [⁴went down ¹for ²the ³sun]. And he took from one of the stones of the place, and put it at his head, and went to sleep in that place. 12 And he dreamed. And behold, there was a stairway being supported by the earth, of which the top arrived in the heaven. And the angels of God ascended and descended upon it. 13 And the lord stayed upon it. And he said, I am the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. Do not fear! The land of which you sleep upon it, to you I will give it, and to your seed. 14 And [²will be ¹your seed] as sand of the earth. And it will be widened unto the west, and south, and north, and unto the east. And shall be blessed by you all the tribes of the earth, and by your seed. 15 And behold, I am with you, guarding you in [²way ¹every] of which ever you may go. And I will return you to this land, for no way would I abandon you until my doing all as much as I spoke to you. 16 And Jacob awoke from out of his sleep. And he said that, The lord is in this place, but I had not known it. 17 And he feared, and said, How fearful this place. Is not this none other than the house of God, and this the gate of heaven. 18 And Jacob rose up in the morning, and took the stone which he placed there at his head. And he set it as a monument, and poured oil upon the top of it. 19 And he called the name of that place, House of God, and Lam-luz was the name to the city formerly. 20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If [³should be ¹the lord ²God] with me, and should guard me in this journey which I go, and should give to me bread to eat, and a cloak to put on, 21 and will return me with safety unto the house of my father, and the lord will be to me for God, 22 and this stone which I set as a monument, will be to me a house of God. And all, what ever, you should give to me, [²a tenth ¹I will tithe] of it to you.