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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Later, Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, instructing him, "Don't marry a wife from the local Canaanite women. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Instead, get up, travel to Paddan-aram, and visit the household of Bethuel, your mother's father. Marry one of Laban's daughters, since he's your mother's brother. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful so that your descendants become a whole group of people. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4May he give you and your descendants the blessings that he gave Abraham. May you possess the land where you have lived that God gave to Abraham." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5So Isaac sent Jacob off toward Paddan-aram to visit Bethuel's son Laban, the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Esau noticed that after Isaac had blessed Jacob as he was sending him off to Paddan-aram to marry a wife from there, he had instructed Jacob, "Don't marry a Canaanite woman." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7After Jacob had obeyed his father and mother's instructions to set out for Paddan-aram, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Esau realized that Canaan women didn't please his father Isaac, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9so he went to Abraham's son Ishmael and married Ishmael's daughter Mahalath, who was the sister of Nebaioth. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Meanwhile, Jacob had left Beer-sheba and was on his way to Haran. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He reached a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun was setting. He found a stone there, used it for a pillow, and slept there for the night, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12when he had a dream! He saw a raised highway that had been built with its ending point on earth and its beginning point in heaven. God's angels were ascending and descending on it. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And there was the LORD, standing above it and telling Jacob, "I am the LORD God of your grandfather Abraham. I'm Isaac's God, too. I'm giving you and your descendants the ground on which you're sleeping. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Your descendants are going to become like the dust of the earth and spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Now pay attention! I'm here with you, and I'm going to be watching over you wherever you go. I'm going to bring you back to this land, because I won't ever leave you until I've accomplished what I've promised about you." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Then Jacob woke up during the night and told himself, "Surely, the LORD is in this place and I never knew it!" |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17In mounting terror, he cried out, "How scary this place is! This is nothing less than God's house and the gateway to heaven!" |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18When Jacob got up early the next morning, he took the stone that he had used for his pillow, set it up as a pillar, drenched it with oil, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19and named the place Beth-el, although previously the city had been named Luz. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Then he made this solemn vow: "If God remains with me, watches over me throughout this journey that I'm taking, gives me food to eat and clothes to wear, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21and returns me safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22this stone that I've erected in the form of a pillar will be God's house, and I'll give you a tenth of everything that you give to me." |
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