1Isaac called in Jacob, then gave him a blessing, and said:
Don't marry any of those Canaanite women.
2Go at once to your mother's father Bethuel in northern Syria and choose a wife from one of the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
3I pray that God All-Powerful will bless you with many descendants and let you become a great nation.
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7and that he had obeyed his father and mother.
8Esau already had several wives, but he now realized how much his father hated the Canaanite women.
9So he married Ishmael's daughter Mahalath, who was the sister of Nebaioth and the granddaughter of Abraham.
Jacob's Dream at Bethel10 and said:
I am the Lord God who was worshiped by Abraham and Isaac. I will give to you and your family the land on which you are now sleeping.
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15Wherever you go, I will watch over you, then later I will bring you back to this land. I won't leave you—I will do all I have promised.
16Jacob woke up suddenly and thought, “The Lord is in this place, and I didn't even know it.”
17Then Jacob became frightened and said, “What a frightening place! It must be the house of God and the gateway to heaven.”
18When Jacob got up early the next morning, he took the rock that he had used for a pillow and stood it up as a place of worship. Then he poured olive oil on the rock to dedicate it to God,
19and he named the place Bethel. Before that it had been named Luz.
20Jacob solemnly promised God, “If you go with me and watch over me as I travel, and if you give me food and clothes
21and bring me safely home again, you will be my God.
22This rock will be your house, and I will give back to you a tenth of everything you give me.”
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