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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1So Isaac called for Jacob, blessed him, and said, “You must not marry any of these Canaanite women. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Instead, go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of your uncle Laban’s daughters. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3May God Almighty bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants multiply and become many nations! |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4May God pass on to you and your descendants the blessings he promised to Abraham. May you own this land where you are now living as a foreigner, for God gave this land to Abraham.” |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to stay with his uncle Laban, his mother’s brother, the son of Bethuel the Aramean. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Esau knew that his father, Isaac, had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to find a wife, and that he had warned Jacob, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.” |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He also knew that Jacob had obeyed his parents and gone to Paddan-aram. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8It was now very clear to Esau that his father did not like the local Canaanite women. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9So Esau visited his uncle Ishmael’s family and married one of Ishmael’s daughters, in addition to the wives he already had. His new wife’s name was Mahalath. She was the sister of Nebaioth and the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son. Jacob’s Dream at Bethel |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and traveled toward Haran. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11At sundown he arrived at a good place to set up camp and stopped there for the night. Jacob found a stone to rest his head against and lay down to sleep. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13At the top of the stairway stood the LORD, and he said, “I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham, and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I am giving it to you and your descendants. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east, to the north and the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15What’s more, I am with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you.” |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I wasn’t even aware of it!” |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But he was also afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! It is none other than the house of God, the very gateway to heaven!” |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18The next morning Jacob got up very early. He took the stone he had rested his head against, and he set it upright as a memorial pillar. Then he poured olive oil over it. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19He named that place Bethel (which means “house of God”), although it was previously called Luz. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Then Jacob made this vow: “If God will indeed be with me and protect me on this journey, and if he will provide me with food and clothing, |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21and if I return safely to my father’s home, then the LORD will certainly be my God. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And this memorial pillar I have set up will become a place for worshiping God, and I will present to God a tenth of everything he gives me.” |
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