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And Isaac calleth unto Jacob , and blesseth him, and commandeth him, and saith to him, `Thou dost not take a wife of the daughters of Caanan;
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rise , go to Padan-Aram , to the house of Bethuel , thy mother's father , and take for thyself from thence a wife , of the daughters of Laban , thy mother's brother ;
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and God Almighty doth bless thee, and make thee fruitful , and multiply thee, and thou hast become an assembly of peoples;
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and He doth 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 sendeth away Jacob , and he goeth to Padan-Aram , unto Laban , son of Bethuel the Aramaean, brother of Rebekah , mother of Jacob and Esau .
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And Esau seeth that Isaac hath blessed Jacob , and hath sent him to Padan-Aram to take to himself from thence a wife -- in his blessing him that he layeth a charge upon him, saying, Thou dost not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan --
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that Jacob hearkeneth unto his father and unto his mother , and goeth to Padan-Aram --
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and Esau seeth that the daughters of Canaan are evil in the eyes of Isaac his father ,
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and Esau goeth unto Ishmael , and taketh Mahalath , daughter of Ishmael , Abraham 's son , sister of Nebajoth , unto his wives , to himself, for a wife .
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And Jacob goeth out from Beer-Sheba, and goeth toward Haran ,
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and he toucheth at a [certain] place , and lodgeth there, for the sun hath gone in, and he taketh of the stones of the place , and maketh [them] his pillows , and lieth down in that place .
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And he dreameth, and lo, a ladder set up on the earth , and its head is touching the heavens ; and lo, messengers of God are going up and coming down by it;
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and lo, Jehovah is standing upon it, and He saith , `I [am] Jehovah , God of Abraham thy father , and God of Isaac ; the land on which thou art lying, to thee I give it, and to thy seed ;
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and thy seed hath been as the dust of the land , and thou hast broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward , and southward , and all families of the ground have been blessed in thee and in thy seed .
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`And lo, I [am] with thee, and have kept thee whithersoever thou goest , and have caused thee to turn back unto this ground; for I leave thee not till that I have surely done that which I have spoken to thee.'
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And Jacob awaketh out of his sleep , and saith , `Surely Jehovah is in this place , and I knew not;'
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and he feareth, and saith , `How fearful [is] this place ; this is nothing but a house of God , and this a gate of the heavens .'
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And Jacob riseth early in the morning , and taketh the stone which he hath made his pillows , and maketh it a standing pillar, and poureth oil upon its top,
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and he calleth the name of that place Bethel , [house of God,] and yet, Luz [is] the name of the city at the first .
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And Jacob voweth a vow , saying, `Seeing God is with me, and hath kept me in this way which I am going , and hath given to me bread to eat , and a garment to put on --
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when I have turned back in peace unto the house of my father , and Jehovah hath become my God ,
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then this stone which I have made a standing pillar is a house of God , and all that Thou dost give to me -- tithing I tithe to Thee.'