Genesis Chapter 28
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. |
28:2 | Arise, go to Padanaram, to the ![]() |
28:3 | And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and ![]() |
28:4 | And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou ![]() |
28:5 | And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob' and Esau' mother. |
28:6 | 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; |
28:7 | And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram; |
28:8 | And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; |
28:9 | Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham' son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife. |
28:10 | And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. |
28:11 | And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the ![]() |
28:12 | And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the ![]() |
28:13 | 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; |
28:14 | And thy seed shall be as the dust of the ![]() ![]() |
28:15 | 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. |
28:16 | And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not. |
28:17 | And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful [is] this place! this [is] none other but the ![]() |
28:18 | 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. |
28:19 | And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city [was called] Luz at the first. |
28:20 | 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 ![]() |
28:21 | So that I come again to my father' ![]() |
28:22 | And this stone, which I have set [for] a pillar, shall be God' ![]() |