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Then Isaac sent for Jacob , and blessing him, said , Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan ;
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But go to Paddan-aram , to the house of Bethuel , your mother's father , and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban , your mother's brother .
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And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing , giving you fruit and increase , so that you may become an army of peoples.
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And may God give you the blessing of Abraham , to you and to your seed , so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham , may be your heritage.
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So Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram , to Laban , son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah , the mother of Jacob and Esau .
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So when Esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing , and sent him away to Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself there, blessing him and saying to him, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan ;
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And that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and had gone to Paddan-aram ;
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It was clear to Esau that his father had no love for the women of Canaan ,
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So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath , the daughter of Abraham 's son Ishmael , the sister of Nebaioth , to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.
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So Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran .
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And coming to a certain place , he made it his resting-place for the night, for the sun had gone down; and he took one of the stones which were there, and putting it under his head he went to sleep in that place .
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And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to heaven , and the angels of God were going up and down on them.
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And he saw the Lord by his side , saying, I am the Lord , the God of Abraham your father , and the God of Isaac : I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.
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Your seed will be like the dust of the earth , covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south : you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth .
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And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go , guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.
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And Jacob , awaking from his sleep , said , Truly, the Lord is in this place and I was not conscious of it.
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And fear came on him, and he said , This is a holy place ; this is nothing less than the house of God and the doorway of heaven .
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And early in the morning Jacob took the stone which had been under his head , and put it up as a pillar and put oil on it.
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And he gave that place the name of Beth-el , but before that time the town was named Luz .
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Then Jacob took an oath , and said , If God will be with me, and keep me safe on my journey , and give me food and clothing to put on ,
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So that I come again to my father 's house in peace , then I will take the Lord to be my God ,
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And this stone which I have put up for a pillar will be God's house : and of all you give me, I will give a tenth part to you.