Genesis 28

1Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.Cross-references: Gen 6:2 · Gen 24:3 · Gen 24:37 · Gen 26:34 · Gen 27:4 · Gen 27:27 · +10 more

2Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.Cross-references: Gen 22:20 · Gen 24:10 · Gen 24:15 · Gen 24:29 · Gen 24:50 · Gen 25:20 · +7 more

3May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,Cross-references: Gen 1:28 · Gen 9:1 · Gen 13:16 · Gen 17:1 · Gen 22:17 · Gen 24:60 · +9 more

4and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”Cross-references: Gen 12:1 · Gen 12:7 · Gen 13:14 · Gen 15:5 · Gen 15:18 · Gen 17:6 · +9 more

5Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

6Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;”Cross-references: Gen 27:33 · Gen 28:1

7and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.Cross-references: Gen 27:43 · Ex 20:12 · Lev 19:3 · Prov 1:8 · Prov 30:17 · Eph 6:1 · +2 more

8Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.Cross-references: Gen 24:3 · Gen 26:34 · Gen 28:1 · 1Sam 8:6

9So Esau went to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.Cross-references: Gen 25:13 · Gen 26:34 · Gen 36:3 · Gen 36:13 · Gen 36:18

10Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.Cross-references: Gen 11:31 · Gen 32:10 · Hos 12:12 · Acts 7:2 · Acts 25:13

11He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.Cross-references: Gen 28:18 · Gen 31:46 · Matt 8:20 · 2Cor 1:5

12He dreamed and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.Cross-references: Gen 15:1 · Gen 15:12 · Gen 20:3 · Gen 20:6 · Gen 32:1 · Gen 37:5 · +16 more

13Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will give the land you lie on to you and to your offspring.Cross-references: Gen 12:7 · Gen 13:15 · Gen 15:1 · Gen 17:6 · Gen 26:3 · Gen 26:24 · +17 more

14Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.Cross-references: Gen 12:3 · Gen 13:14 · Gen 13:16 · Gen 18:18 · Gen 22:18 · Gen 26:4 · +12 more

15Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”Cross-references: Gen 26:3 · Gen 26:24 · Gen 28:20 · Gen 31:3 · Gen 32:9 · Gen 35:6 · +28 more

16Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”Cross-references: Ex 3:5 · Ex 15:11 · Josh 5:15 · 1Sam 3:4 · Job 9:11 · Job 33:14 · +2 more

17He was afraid, and said, “How awesome this place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”Cross-references: Gen 28:22 · Gen 35:1 · Ex 3:6 · Judg 13:22 · 2Chr 5:14 · Eccl 5:1 · +7 more

18Jacob 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 on its top.Cross-references: Gen 22:3 · Gen 31:13 · Gen 31:45 · Gen 35:14 · Gen 35:20 · Lev 8:10 · +7 more

19He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.Cross-references: Gen 12:8 · Gen 35:1 · Gen 48:3 · Judg 1:22 · 1Ki 12:29 · Hos 4:15 · +1 more

20Jacob 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 clothing to put on,Cross-references: Gen 28:15 · Gen 31:13 · Lev 27:1 · Num 6:1 · Num 21:2 · Judg 11:30 · +21 more

21so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,Cross-references: Ex 15:2 · Deut 26:17 · Judg 11:31 · 2Sam 15:8 · 2Sam 19:24 · 2Sam 19:30 · +1 more

22then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”Cross-references: Gen 12:8 · Gen 14:20 · Gen 21:33 · Gen 28:17 · Gen 33:20 · Gen 35:1 · +4 more