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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.
