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Genesis 28 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:1 - And Isaac having called for Jacob, blessed him, and charged him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - Rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bathuel the father of thy mother, and take to thyself thence a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:3 - And may my God bless thee, and increase thee, and multiply thee, and thou shalt become gatherings of nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:4 - And may he give thee the blessing of my father Abraam, even to thee and to thy seed after thee, to inherit the land of thy sojourning, which God gave to Abraam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went into Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebecca the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - And Esau saw that Isaac blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Mesopotamia of Syria as he blessed him, to take to himself a wife thence, and that he charged him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:7 - and that Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and went to Mesopotamia of Syria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:8 - And Esau also having seen that the daughters of Chanaan were evil before his father Isaac,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:9 - Esau went to Ismael, and took Maeleth the daughter of Ismael, the son of Abraam, the sister of Nabeoth, a wife in addition to his other wives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - And Jacob went forth from the well of the oath, and departed into Charrhan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11 - And came to a certain place and slept there, for the sun had gone down; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it at his head, and lay down to sleep in that place,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:12 - and dreamed, and behold a ladder fixed on the earth, whose top reached to heaven, and the angels of God ascended and descended on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:13 - And the Lord [fn]stood upon it, and said, I am the God of thy father Abraam, and the God of Isaac; fear not, the land on which 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 sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:15 - And behold I am with thee to preserve thee continually in all the way wherein thou shalt go; and I will bring thee back to this land; for I will not desert thee, until I have done all that I have said to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:16 - And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and said, The Lord 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 fearful 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 in the morning, and took the stone [fn]he had laid there by his head, and he set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19 - And he called the name of that place, the House of God; and the name of the city before was Ulam-luz.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:20 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If the Lord God will be with me, and guard me throughout on this journey, on which I am going, and give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:21 - and bring me back in safety to the house of my father, then shall the Lord be for a God to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:22 - And this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be to me a house of God; and of all whatsoever thou shalt give me, I will tithe a tenth for thee.
BES Footnotes
Gr. was established.
Lit. put under. See 1 Tim. 3:15.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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Genesis Chapter 28 — Additional Translations:

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