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Genesis 28

Jacob Is Sent Away

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So Isaac called Jacob and  ablessed him and charged him, and said to him, " bYou shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

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"Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of  aBethuel your mother's father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

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"May  1 aGod Almighty  bbless you and  cmake you fruitful and  dmultiply you, that you may become a  ecompany of peoples.

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"May He also give you the  ablessing of Abraham, to you and to your  1descendants with you, that you may  bpossess the land of your  csojournings, which God gave to Abraham."

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Then  aIsaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take to himself a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he charged him, saying, " aYou shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,"

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and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.

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So Esau saw that  athe daughters of Canaan displeased  1his father Isaac;

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and Esau went to Ishmael, and  1married,  abesides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth.

Jacob's Dream

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Then Jacob departed from  aBeersheba and went toward  bHaran.

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He  1came to  2a  acertain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it  3under his head, and lay down in that place.

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 aHe had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold,  bthe angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

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And behold,  athe LORD stood  1above it and said, "I am the LORD,  bthe God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it  cto you and to  dyour  2descendants.

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"Your  1descendants will also be like  athe dust of the earth, and you will  2spread out  bto the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and  cin you and in your  1descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

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"Behold,  aI am with you and  bwill keep you wherever you go, and  cwill bring you back to this land; for  dI will not leave you until I have done what I have  1promised you."

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Then Jacob  aawoke from his sleep and said, " bSurely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it."

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He was afraid and said, " aHow awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."

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So Jacob rose early in the morning, and took  athe stone that he had put  1under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on its top.

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He called the name of that place  1 aBethel; however,  2previously the name of the city had been  bLuz.

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Then Jacob  amade a vow, saying, " bIf God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I  1take, and will give me  2 cfood to eat and garments to wear,

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and  aI return to my father's house in  1safety,  bthen the LORD will be my God.

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"This stone, which I have set up as a pillar,  awill be God's house, and  bof all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You."



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