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Genesis 28 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:1 - And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:3 - And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:4 - and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:7 - and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:8 - and Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:9 - and Esau went unto Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

Jacob's Dream

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11 - And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:12 - And he dreamed; and behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:13 - And, behold, Jehovah stood above it, and said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:15 - And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:16 - And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely Jehovah is in this place; and I knew it not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:17 - And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19 - And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:20 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:21 - so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Jehovah will be my God,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:22 - then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Genesis Chapter 28 — Additional Translations:

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