Genesis 28

Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and commanded him, “You must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. Rise and go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and take a wife from there, from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you become a community of peoples. May he give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and your offspring with you, so that you may possess the land where you have lived as a foreigner, which God gave to Abraham.” Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean and the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there. When he blessed him, he had commanded him, “You must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.” Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram. Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan displeased his father Isaac. So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, and the sister of Nebaioth, as a wife in addition to the wives he already had. Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran. He came to a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head and lay down in that place. He dreamed, and there was a ladder set up on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven. The angels of God were ascending and descending on it. The LORD stood above it and said, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and your offspring. Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. In you and in your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed. Look, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” Jacob woke from his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.” He was afraid and said, “How awesome this place is! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.” Jacob rose early in the morning and took the stone he had placed at his head and set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on its top. He named that place Bethel, though the city’s name had formerly been Luz. Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and keep me on this journey I am taking, and give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, and I return in peace to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God. This stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”

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