1So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.[ † ]Genesis 27:33Genesis 24:3 2“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.[ † ]Hosea 12:12Genesis 25:20Genesis 22:23Genesis 24:29Genesis 27:43Genesis 29:5 3May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.[ † ]Genesis 17:16Genesis 35:11Genesis 48:3Genesis 26:4-24 4And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”[ † ]Genesis 12:2-3Genesis 22:17Galatians 3:8Genesis 17:8Genesis 23:4Genesis 36:71 Chronicles 29:15Psalms 39:12
5So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
6Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,” 7and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
8And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,[ † ]Genesis 24:3Genesis 26:34-35Genesis 27:46 9Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.[ † ]Genesis 26:34-35Genesis 36:2-3Genesis 25:13
10Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.[ † ]Genesis 26:23Genesis 46:1Hosea 12:12Genesis 12:4-5Genesis 27:43Genesis 29:42 Kings 19:12Acts 7:2 11On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
12And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.[ † ]Genesis 31:10Genesis 41:1Numbers 12:6John 1:51Hebrews 1:4-14 13And there at the top the Lord was standing and saying, “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.[ † ]Genesis 35:1Genesis 48:3Amos 7:7Genesis 26:24Genesis 13:15-17Genesis 26:3Genesis 35:12Genesis 13:16Genesis 22:17 14Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.[ † ]Genesis 13:14-15Deuteronomy 12:20Genesis 12:3Genesis 18:18Genesis 22:18Genesis 26:4Matthew 1:2Luke 3:34Galatians 3:8 15Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”[ † ]Genesis 26:3-24Genesis 31:3Genesis 48:16Numbers 6:24Psalms 121:5-7, 8Genesis 35:6Genesis 48:21Deuteronomy 30:3Leviticus 26:44Deuteronomy 7:9Deuteronomy 31:6-8Joshua 1:51 Kings 8:57Hebrews 13:5Numbers 23:19
16When Jacob woke up, he said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”[ † ]Exodus 3:5Joshua 5:15Psalms 139:7-12 17And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!”
18Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,[ † ]Genesis 31:13-45Leviticus 8:10-12 19and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.[ † ]Judges 1:23-26
20Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,[ † ]Genesis 31:13Judges 11:302 Samuel 15:8Genesis 28:151 Timothy 6:8 21so that I may return safely to my father’s house, then the Lord will be my God.[ † ]Judges 11:312 Samuel 19:24-30Deuteronomy 26:172 Samuel 15:8 22And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”[ † ]Genesis 35:7-14Genesis 14:20Leviticus 27:30Deuteronomy 14:22