Genesis 28 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

Jacob Is Sent Away

1So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, “You shall not marry one of the women of Canaan.

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

3May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

4May He also give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants with you, that you may inherit the land of your sojournings, which He gave to Abraham.”

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.

6Now Esau noticed that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife for himself from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a prohibition, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”

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

8So Esau realized that the daughters of Canaan displeased Isaac his father;

9and Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife, in addition to the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth.

13And behold, the Lord stood above and around him and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; I will give to you and to your descendants the land on which you are lying.

14Your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and the east and the north and the south; and all the families (nations) of the earth shall be blessed through you and your descendants.

15Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you may go, and I will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

16Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and he said, “Without any doubt the Lord is in this place, and I did not realize it.”

17So he was afraid and said, “How fearful and awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gateway to heaven.”

18So Jacob got up early in the morning, and took the stone he had put under his head and he set it up as a pillar, and he poured oil on the top of it.

19He named that place Bethel (the house of God); the previous name of that city was Luz (Almond Tree).

20Then Jacob made a vow (promise), saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I take, and will give me food to eat and clothing to wear,

21and if I return to my father’s house in safety, then the Lord will be my God.

22This stone which I have set up as a pillar (monument, memorial) will be God’s house, and of everything that You give me I will give the tenth to You.”