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And Isaac called Jacob , and blessed him, and commanded him, and said to him, Thou shalt not take a woman of the daughters of Canaan .
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Arise , go to▫ Paddan-aram , to▫ the house of Bethuel thy mother ’s father , and take to thee from thence a woman of the daughters of Laban , thy mother ’s brother .
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And God◦ Shaddai will bless thee, and will make· thee ·fruitful and multiply thee, and thou shalt be for an assembly of peoples.
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And He will give to thee the blessing of Abraham , to thee and to thy seed with◦ thee, to cause thee to possess the land of thy sojournings , which God gave to Abraham .
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And Isaac sent · Jacob ·away; and he went to▫ Paddan-aram , to▵ Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah , the mother of Jacob and Esau .
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And Esau saw that Isaac blessed Jacob , and sent him to▫ Paddan-aram , to take for himself from thence a woman , and in blessing him commanded him, saying, Thou shalt not take a woman of the daughters of Canaan .
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And Jacob hearkened to▵ his father and to▵ his mother , and went to▫ Paddan-aram .
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And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the eyes of Isaac his father .
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And Esau went to▵ Ishmael , and took to himself for a woman , Mahalath , the daughter of Ishmael , Abraham ’s son , the sister of Nebaioth , over his women*.
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And Jacob went··out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran .
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And he came ··upon a place , and passed··the··night there, for the sun had set▵*; and he took one of the stones of the place , and set it as his headrest, and lay··down in that◦ place .
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And he dreamed, and behold, a stairway* standing··on the earth , and its head reaching the heavens ; and behold, the angels of God going··up and going··down on◦ it.
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And behold, Jehovah standing◦ above it; and He said , I◦ am Jehovah the God of Abraham thy father , and the God of Isaac ; the land on which thou◦ liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed .
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And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth , and thou shalt break··forth to▫ the sea , and to▫ the east, and to▫ the north , and to▫ the south ; and in thee shall all the families of the ground be blessed , and in thy seed .
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And behold, I▵ am with thee, and will keep thee in every place which thou goest , and will return thee to▵ this ground; for I will not leave◦ thee until I have done that which I have spoken to thee.
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And Jacob awoke from his sleep , and he said , Surely Jehovah is◦ in this place ; and I▵ knew it not.
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And he feared , and said , How fearsome··is this place ! This is none other··than the house of God , and this is the gate of the heavens .
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And Jacob got··up··early in the morning , and took the stone that he had set for his headrest, and set it for a pillar◦, and poured oil on the head of it.
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And he called the name of that◦ place Bethel*; nevertheless the name of the city was Luz at◦ the first .
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And Jacob vowed a vow , saying, If God will be with··me and will keep me in this way in which I▵ walk, and will give to me bread to eat , and a garment with· which to be ·clothed,
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and I return in peace to▵ my father ’s house , then Jehovah shall be to me for God .
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And this stone , which I have set for a pillar◦, shall be the house of God ; and all that Thou shalt give to me, tithing I will tithe it to Thee.