28:1 And Izhak called Jakob and blessed him. And he commanded him, and said to him, Thou shalt not take a wife from the daughters of Kenaan;

28:2 Arise, go to Padan Aram to the house of Bethuel the father of thy mother, and take to thee from thence a wife of the daughters of Laban, the brother of thy mother.

28:3 And the All-sufficient God bless thee, and make thee to increase and multiply, and become an assemblage of tribes;

28:4 And give the blessing of Abraham to thee and thy sons with thee, that thou mayest inherit the land of thy habitation which the Lord gave to Abraham.

28:5 And Izhak sent Jakob away, and he went to Padan Aram to Laban bar Bethuel, the Aramite, the brother of Revekah, the mother of Jakob and Esau.

28:6 And Esau, when he saw that Izhak had blessed Jakob, and sent him to Padan Aram to take from thence a wife, and, as he blessed him, commanded him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife from the daughters of Kenaan,

28:7 and that Jakob had obeyed his father and his mother, and had gone to Padan Aram,

28:8 Esau, considering that the daughters of Kenaan were evil in the eyes of Izhak his father,

28:9 went to Ishmael, and took Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael bar Abraham, the sister of Nebaioth, over his wives, unto him to wife.

28:10 And Jakob went forth from Beersheva, and went to Haran;

28:11 and he arrived at a place, and lodged there, because the sun had gone. And he took of the stones of the place, and set his pillow, and lay down in that place.

28:12 And he dreamed: and, behold, a ladder was planted in the earth, and the head of it reached unto the height of heaven; and, behold, the angels of the Lord ascended and descended upon it;

28:13 and, behold, the Glory of the Lord stood above it, and He said, I am the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Izhak. The land where thou sleepest, unto thee will I give it, and unto thy sons.

28:14 And thy sons shall be many as the dust of the earth, and shall prevail to the west and to the east, and to the north and to the south; and through thee shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed, and through thy sons.

28:15 And, behold, My Word shall be for thy help, and I will keep thee in every place whither thou goest, and I will bring thee again to this land; for I will not leave thee until I have done what I say to thee.

28:16 And Jakob awoke from his sleep, and said, Verily the Glory of the Lord dwelleth in this place, and I knew it not.

28:17 And he feared and said, How awful is this place! This place is not common (ground), but a place where there is pleasantness before the Lord; and this is nigh the gate of heaven.

28:18 And Jakob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone which he had set for his pillow, and set it up, a pillar, as a memorial.

28:19 And he called the name of that place The House of God (Bethel). But Luz was the name of the city at the first.

28:20 And Jakob vowed a vow, saying, If the Word of the Lord will be my help, and will keep me in that way in which I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to wear,

28:21 and bring me again in peace to the Lord shall be my God.

28:22 And this stone which I have set up (as) a pillar shall be a memorial of the place where I will worship before the Lord; and of all that Thou shalt give me, the tenth will I separate before Thee.