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Genesis 28 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Jacob Is Sent Away

Gen 28:1

Gen 28:1So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

Gen 28:2

Gen 28:2“Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.

Gen 28:3

Gen 28:3“May [fn]God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

Gen 28:4

Gen 28:4“May He also give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your [fn]descendants with you, that you may possess the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.”

Gen 28:5

Gen 28:5Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Gen 28:6

Gen 28:6Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take to himself a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he charged him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”

Gen 28:7

Gen 28:7and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.

Gen 28:8

Gen 28:8So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan displeased [fn]his father Isaac;

Gen 28:9

Gen 28:9and Esau went to Ishmael, and [fn]married, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth.

Jacob's Dream

Gen 28:10

Gen 28:10Then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran.

Gen 28:11

Gen 28:11He [fn]came to [fn]a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it [fn]under his head, and lay down in that place.

Gen 28:12

Gen 28:12He had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

Gen 28:13

Gen 28:13And behold, the LORD stood [fn]above it and said, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your [fn]descendants.

Gen 28:14

Gen 28:14“Your [fn]descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will [fn]spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your [fn]descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Gen 28:15

Gen 28:15“Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have [fn]promised you.”

Gen 28:16

Gen 28:16Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.”

Gen 28:17

Gen 28:17He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”

Gen 28:18

Gen 28:18So Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put [fn]under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on its top.

Gen 28:19

Gen 28:19He called the name of that place [fn]Bethel; however, [fn]previously the name of the city had been Luz.

Gen 28:20

Gen 28:20Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I [fn]take, and will give me [fn]food to eat and garments to wear,

Gen 28:21

Gen 28:21and I return to my father’s house in [fn]safety, then the LORD will be my God.

Gen 28:22

Gen 28:22“This stone, which I have set up as a pillar, will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You.”
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NASB95 Footnotes
Hebrew: El Shaddai
Literally: seed
Literally: in the eyes of his
Literally: took for his wife
Literally: lighted on
Literally: the place
Literally: at his head-place
Or, beside him
Literally: seed
Literally: seed
Literally: break through
Literally: spoken to
Literally: at his head-place
I.e. the house of God
Literally: at the first
Literally: go
Literally: bread
Literally: peace
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