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Genesis 28 📜 📕 ↷
Jacob's Departure
1 ISAAC therefore called Jacob, and blessed him, and commanded him saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan;📜💬📚
2 but go and make a journey into Mesopotamia of Syria; to the house of Bathuel thy mother's father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban thine uncle.📜💬📚
3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee increase, and multiply thee: that thou mayest be into multitudes of peoples.📜💬📚
4 And give he thee the blessings of Abraham, and to thy seed after thee: that thou mayest possess the land of thy peregrination, which he promised to thy grandfather.📜💬📚
5 And when Isaac had dismissed him, taking his journey he came to Mesopotamia of Syria to Laban, the son of Bathuel the Syrian, brother to Rebecca his mother.📜💬📚
Esau Marries Mahalath
6 And Esau seeing that his father had blessed Jacob, and had sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after the blessing he had commanded him, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Chanaan;📜💬📚
7 and that Jacob obeying his parents was gone into Syria:📜💬📚
8 having trial also that his father did not willingly see the daughters of Chanaan,📜💬📚
9 he went to Ismael, and took to wife besides them which he had before, Maheleth the daughter of Ismael Abraham's son, sister to Nabajoth.📜💬📚
Jacob's Ladder
10 Therefore Jacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran.📜💬📚
11 And when he was come to a certain place, and would rest in it after sun set, he took one of the stones that lay there, and putting in under his head, slept in the same place.📜💬📚
12 And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, & the top thereof touching heaven: the Angels also of God ascending & descending by it,📜💬📚
13 and our Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, & the God of Isaac: the Land wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed.📜💬📚
14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt be dilated to the West, and to the East, and to the North, and to the South: and IN THEE AND THY SEED ALL THE TRIBES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED.📜💬📚
15 And I will be thy keeper whither soever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all things which I have said.📜💬📚
16 And when Jacob was awaked out of sleep, he said: Indeed our Lord is in this place, and I wist not.📜💬📚
17 And trembling he said: How terrible is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.📜💬📚
Stone of Bethel
18 And Jacob arising in the morning took the stone, which he had laid under his head, and erected it for a title, pouring oil upon the top.📜💬📚
19 And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza.📜💬📚
20 And he vowed a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by the which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,📜💬📚
21 and I shall be returned prosperously to my father's house, the Lord shall be my God,📜💬📚
22 and this stone, which I have erected for a title, shall be called the House of God: and of all things that thou shalt give to me, I will offer tithes to thee.📜💬📚
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