Jacob Is Sent Away

28 So Isaac called Jacob and ^(A)blessed him and charged him, and said to him, “^(B)You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. ² Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of ^(C)Bethuel your mother’s father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother. ³ May ^[a](D)God Almighty ^(E)bless you and ^(F)make you fruitful and ^(G)multiply you, that you may become a ^(H)company of peoples. ⁴ May He also give you the ^(I)blessing of Abraham, to you and to your ^[b]descendants with you, that you may ^(J)possess the land of your ^(K)sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.” ⁵ Then ^(L)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.

⁶ Now 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, “^(M)You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,” ⁷ and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram. ⁸ So Esau saw that ^(N)the daughters of Canaan displeased ^[c]his father Isaac; ⁹ and Esau went to Ishmael, and ^[d]married, ^(O)besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth.

Jacob’s Dream

¹⁰ Then Jacob departed from ^(P)Beersheba and went toward ^(Q)Haran. ¹¹ He ^[e]came to ^[f]a ^(R)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 ^[g]under his head, and lay down in that place. ^12 (S)He had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, ^(T)the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. ¹³ And behold, ^(U)the Lord stood ^[h]above it and said, “I am the Lord, ^(V)the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it ^(W)to you and to ^(X)your ^[i]descendants. ¹⁴ Your ^[j]descendants will also be like ^(Y)the dust of the earth, and you will ^[k]spread out ^(Z)to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and ^(AA)in you and in your ^[l]descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed. ¹⁵ Behold, ^(AB)I am with you and ^(AC)will keep you wherever you go, and ^(AD)will bring you back to this land; for ^(AE)I will not leave you until I have done what I have ^[m]promised you.” ¹⁶ Then Jacob ^(AF)awoke from his sleep and said, “^(AG)Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.” ¹⁷ He was afraid and said, “^(AH)How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”

¹⁸ So Jacob rose early in the morning, and took ^(AI)the stone that he had put ^[n]under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on its top. ¹⁹ He called the name of that place ^[o](AJ)Bethel; however, ^[p]previously the name of the city had been ^(AK)Luz. ²⁰ Then Jacob ^(AL)made a vow, saying, “^(AM)If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I ^[q]take, and will give me ^[r](AN)food to eat and garments to wear, ²¹ and ^(AO)I return to my father’s house in ^[s]safety, ^(AP)then the Lord will be my God. ²² This stone, which I have set up as a pillar, ^(AQ)will be God’s house, and ^(AR)of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You.”

^32 (A)They went away in ^(B)the boat to a secluded place by themselves.

Five Thousand Fed

³³ The people saw them going, and many recognized them and ran there together on foot from all the cities, and got there ahead of them. ³⁴ When Jesus went ^[a]ashore, He ^(C)saw a large crowd, and He felt compassion for them because ^(D)they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things. ³⁵ When it was already quite late, His disciples came to Him and said, “^[b]This place is desolate and it is already quite late; ³⁶ send them away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves ^[c]something to eat.” ³⁷ But He answered them, “You give them something to eat!” ^(E)And they *said to Him, “Shall we go and spend two hundred ^[d](F)denarii on bread and give them something to eat?” ³⁸ And He *said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go look!” And when they found out, they *said, “Five, and two fish.” ³⁹ And He commanded them all to ^[e]sit down by groups on the green grass. ⁴⁰ They ^[f]sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties. ⁴¹ And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He ^(G)blessed the food and broke the loaves and He kept giving them to the disciples to set before them; and He divided up the two fish among them all. ⁴² They all ate and were satisfied, ⁴³ and they picked up twelve full ^(H)baskets of the broken pieces, and also of the fish. ⁴⁴ There were ^(I)five thousand men who ate the loaves.

Jesus Walks on the Water

^45 (J)Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into ^(K)the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side to ^(L)Bethsaida, while He Himself was sending the crowd away. ⁴⁶ After ^(M)bidding them farewell, He left ^(N)for the mountain to pray.

⁴⁷ When it was evening, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and He was alone on the land. ⁴⁸ Seeing them ^[g]straining at the oars, for the wind was against them, at about the ^[h](O)fourth watch of the night He *came to them, walking on the sea; and He intended to pass by them. ⁴⁹ But when they saw Him walking on the sea, they supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out; ⁵⁰ for they all saw Him and were ^[i]terrified. But immediately He spoke with them and *said to them, “^(P)Take courage; it is I, ^(Q)do not be afraid.” ⁵¹ Then He got into ^(R)the boat with them, and the wind stopped; and they were utterly astonished, ⁵² for ^(S)they ^[j]had not gained any insight from the incident of the loaves, but ^[k]their heart ^(T)was hardened.

Healing at Gennesaret

^53 (U)When they had crossed over they came to land at Gennesaret, and moored to the shore. ⁵⁴ When they got out of the boat, immediately the people recognized Him, ⁵⁵ and ran about that whole country and began to carry here and there on their pallets those who were sick, to ^[l]the place they heard He was. ⁵⁶ Wherever He entered villages, or cities, or countryside, they were laying the sick in the market places, and imploring Him that they might just ^(V)touch ^(W)the fringe of His cloak; and as many as touched it were being cured.