1So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and he charged him and said to him, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.
2Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and take yourself a wife from there, from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
3And may God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you become an assembly of peoples.
4May he give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.”
5So Isaac sent Jacob off, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
6Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him off to Paddan-aram to take himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he charged him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”
7and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.
8So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the eyes of Isaac his father.
9So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, in addition to his wives, to be his wife.
10Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.
11And he came upon a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of the place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place.
12And he dreamed, and behold, a stairway was set up on the earth, and its top reached to the heavens; and behold, the angels of God were going up and coming down on it.
13And behold, Yahweh was standing over it, and he said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie, to you I will give it, and to your offspring.
14And your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and in your offspring all the families of the ground shall be blessed.
15And behold, I am with you, and I will keep you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this ground; for I will not forsake you until I have done what I have spoken to you.”
16Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I did not know it.”
17And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is nothing other than the house of God, and this is the gate of the heavens.”
18So Jacob rose early in the morning and took the stone that he had put at his head, and he set it up as a pillar, and he poured oil on its top.
19And he called the name of that place Bethel; but Luz was the name of the city at first.
20And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and keep me on this way that I am going, and give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,
21and I return in peace to my father’s house, then Yahweh will be my God,
22and this stone that I have set up as a pillar shall be the house of God; and of all that you give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”
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