The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

 1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a ^awife of the daughters of ^bCanaan.

 2 Arise, go to ^aPadan-aram, to the house of ^bBethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of ^cLaban thy mother’s brother.

 3 And God ^aAlmighty ^bbless thee, and make thee ^cfruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a ^dmultitude of people;

 4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy ^aseed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.

 5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the ^aSyrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

 6 ¶When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-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;

 7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;

 8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

 9 Then went Esau unto ^aIshmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his ^bwife.

 10 ¶And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.

 11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

 12 And he ^adreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the ^bangels of God ascending and descending on it.

 13 And, behold, the ^aLord stood ^babove it, and said, I am the ^cLord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the ^dland whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;

 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 ^anorth, and to the south: and in thee and in thy ^bseed shall all the ^cfamilies of the earth be ^dblessed.

 15 And, behold, ^aI am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will ^bbring thee again into this ^cland; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.

 16 ¶And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.

 17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of ^aheaven.

 18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a ^apillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

 19 And he called the name of that place ^aBeth-el: but the name of that city was called ^bLuz at the first.

 20 And Jacob vowed a ^avow, 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,

 21 So that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the ^aLord be my God:

 22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the ^atenth unto thee.