Isaac Sends Jacob Away

1 And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. And he commanded him, and said to him, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan; 2 arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel the father of your mother, and take a wife from there for yourself of the daughters of Laban, the brother of your mother. 3 And the All-sufficient God bless you, and make you increase and multiply and become an assembly of tribes; 4 and give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants with you, that you may inherit the land of your residence which the Lord gave to Abraham. 5 And Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban bar Bethuel, the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Esau Marries Mahalath

6 And Esau, when he saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him to Paddan-aram to take from there a wife, and, as he blessed him, commanded him, saying, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan, 7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother, and had gone to Paddan-aram, 8 Esau, considering that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the eyes of Isaac his father, 9 went to Ishmael, and married Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael bar Abraham, the sister of Nebaioth, in addition to his other wives.

Jacob's Dream at Bethel

10 And Jacob set out from Beersheba, and went to Haran; 11 and he arrived at a place, and lodged there, because the sun had set. And he took some of the stones of the place, and placed them under his head, and lay down in that place. 12 And he dreamed: and, look, a ladder was planted in the earth, and its top reached to the height of heaven; and, look, the angels of the Lord ascended and descended on it; 13 and, look, the Glory of the Lord stood above it, and He said, I am the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land where you are sleeping, I will give to you and your descendants. 14 And your descendants 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 you shall all the families of the earth be blessed, and through your descendants. 15 And, look, My Memra shall be your help, and I will guard you wherever you go, and I will bring you again to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I say to you. 16 And Jacob awoke from his sleep, and said, Truly the Glory of the Lord dwells in this place, and I did not know it.⁠a 17 And he was afraid and said, How awe-inspiring is this place! This place is not ordinary ground, but a place where there is pleasantness before the Lord; and this is near the gate of heaven. 18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone which he had set under his head, and set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it. 19 And he named that place Bethel. But Luz was the name of the city at first. 20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If the Memra 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 clothes to wear, 21 and bring me again in peace to my father's house, the Memra of the Lord shall be my God. 22 And I will worship at this stone which I have set up as a pillar before the Lord; and of all that You shall give me, I will set aside a tenth before You.