1 A nd 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;

So Isaac called Jacob and prayed that good would come to him. He said to him, “Do not marry one of the daughters of Canaan.

2 r ise, 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;

Get ready, and go to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel in Paddan-aram. Take a wife for yourself from the daughters of your mother’s brother Laban.

3 a nd God Almighty doth bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and thou hast become an assembly of peoples;

May the All-powerful God bring good to you and give you many children until you become many nations.

4 a nd 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.'

May He give you and your children after you the same gift that He gave Abraham. May He give you the land that He gave Abraham, the land where you are now a stranger.”

5 A nd 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.

Then Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau’s mother.

6 A nd 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 --

Now Esau saw that Isaac had prayed for good to come to Jacob and that he had sent him away to Paddan-aram to find a wife. Esau knew that his father had prayed for good to come to Jacob and said, “Do not marry one of the daughters of Canaan,”

7 t hat Jacob hearkeneth unto his father and unto his mother, and goeth to Padan-Aram --

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.

8 a nd Esau seeth that the daughters of Canaan are evil in the eyes of Isaac his father,

Esau knew that the daughters of Canaan did not please his father Isaac.

9 a nd Esau goeth unto Ishmael, and taketh Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, sister of Nebajoth, unto his wives, to himself, for a wife.

So Esau went to Ishmael, and married Mahalath the daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth. He added her to the wives he already had. Jacob’s Dream

10 A nd Jacob goeth out from Beer-Sheba, and goeth toward Haran,

Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran.

11 a nd he toucheth at a place, and lodgeth there, for the sun hath gone in, and he taketh of the stones of the place, and maketh his pillows, and lieth down in that place.

He came to a certain place and stayed the night there, because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones there and put it under his head for a pillow.

12 A nd 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;

And he had a dream. He saw steps going up from the earth to heaven. He saw the angels of God going up and down these steps.

13 a nd lo, Jehovah is standing upon it, and He saith, `I 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;

And he saw the Lord standing above them. He said, “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac. I will give to you and your children after you the land where you are lying.

14 a nd 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.

They will be like the dust of the earth. You will spread out to the west and the east and the north and the south. Good will come to all the families of the earth because of you and your children.

15 ` And lo, I 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.'

See, I am with you. I will care for you everywhere you go. And I will bring you again to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done all the things I promised you.”

16 A nd Jacob awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, `Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I knew not;'

Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “For sure the Lord is in this place and I did not know it.”

17 a nd he feareth, and saith, `How fearful this place; this is nothing but a house of God, and this a gate of the heavens.'

He was afraid and said, “This place is so different! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”

18 A nd 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,

So Jacob got up early in the morning. He took the stone he had used as a pillow, and set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on the top of it.

19 a nd he calleth the name of that place Bethel, and yet, Luz the name of the city at the first.

He gave that place the name Bethel. Its name had been Luz before.

20 A nd 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 --

Then Jacob made a promise. He said, “If God will be with me and take care of me as I go, and if He will give me food to eat and clothes to wear,

21 w hen I have turned back in peace unto the house of my father, and Jehovah hath become my God,

so that I return in peace to my father’s house, then the Lord will be my God.

22 t hen 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.'

I have set up this stone as a pillar to be God’s house. And I will give You a tenth part of all You give to me.”