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And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan; |
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Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother; |
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And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful and multiply thee, and thou mayest be a multitude of people; |
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and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave to Abraham! |
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And let Isaac Jacob, and he went to Padanaram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, brother to Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau.
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Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Mesopotamia to take a wife from there, and commanded him, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan; |
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And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and went to Mesopotamia. |
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And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; |
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and Esau went to Ishmael and took to wife Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, sister Navaiofovu, over [other] wives.
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Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran |
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and I came to the [one] place and [was] there all night, because the sun had set. And he took [one] of the stones of that place, and put it under his head and lay down in that place. |
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And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and, behold, angels of God ascending and descending on it. |
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And behold, the LORD stood above it and said: I am the LORD, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to thee, and to thy seed; |
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and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth; and spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth; |
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and here I am with thee, and keep thee in all places whither thou goest; and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I told you.
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And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I did not know! |
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And he was afraid and said, How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, this is the gate of heaven. |
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And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head and set it a pillar, and poured oil on its top. |
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And he called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of that city was Luz. |
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Then Jacob a vow, saying, If God will be with me and will keep me in this way, that I go and will give me bread to eat and clothing to put on, |
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and I am in the world I will return to my father's house, and the LORD will be my God, - |
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And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, will be God's house; and of all that Thou [God] shalt give me I will give you a tenth. |
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