Jacob Is Sent Away

28 So Isaac called Jacob and ^(A)blessed him and commanded him, ^[a]saying 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 ^[b](D)God Almighty ^(E)bless you and ^(F)make you fruitful and ^(G)multiply you, so that you may become a ^(H)multitude of peoples. ⁴ May He also give you the ^(I)blessing of Abraham, to you and to your ^[c]descendants with you, so that you may ^(J)possess the land where you ^(K)live as a stranger, 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 commanded 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 ^[d]his father Isaac; ⁹ and Esau went to Ishmael, and ^[e]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 And he ^[f]happened upon a ^[g](R)particular place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and made it a support for his head, and lay down in that place. ¹² And ^(S)he had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, ^(T)the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. ¹³ Then behold, ^(U)the Lord was standing ^[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 ^(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)The Lord is certainly in this place, and I did not know it!” ¹⁷ And 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 got up early in the morning, and took ^(AI)the stone that he had placed as a support for his head, and set it up as a memorial stone, and poured oil on its top. ¹⁹ Then he named that place ^[n](AJ)Bethel; but ^[o]previously the name of the city had been ^(AK)Luz. ²⁰ Jacob also ^(AL)made a vow, saying, “^(AM)If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I ^[p]take, and give me ^[q](AN)food to eat and garments to wear, ²¹ and ^(AO)I return to my father’s house in ^[r]safety, ^(AP)then the Lord will be my God. ²² And this stone, which I have set up as a memorial stone, ^(AQ)will be God’s house, and ^(AR)of everything that You give me I will assuredly give a tenth to You.”

Esau Moves

36 Now these are the records of the generations of ^(A)Esau (that is, Edom).

² Esau ^(B)took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and ^(C)Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the ^[a](D)granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite; ³ also Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, the sister of Nebaioth. ⁴ Adah bore ^(E)Eliphaz to Esau, and Basemath gave birth to Reuel, ⁵ and Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

^6 (F)Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all ^[b]his household, and his livestock and all his cattle, and all his property which he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to another land away from his brother Jacob. ^7 (G)For their possessions had become too great for them to live together, and the ^(H)land where they ^(I)resided could not support them because of their livestock. ⁸ So Esau lived in the hill country of ^(J)Seir; Esau is ^(K)Edom.

Descendants of Esau

⁹ These then are the records of the generations of Esau the father of ^[c]the Edomites in the hill country of Seir. ¹⁰ These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz the son of Esau’s wife Adah, and Reuel the son of Esau’s wife Basemath. ¹¹ The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, ^[d]Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. ¹² Timna was a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, and she bore ^(L)Amalek to Eliphaz. These are the sons of Esau’s wife Adah. ¹³ And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Esau’s wife Basemath. ¹⁴ And these were the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the ^[e]granddaughter of Zibeon: ^[f]she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

¹⁵ These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau, are chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, ¹⁶ chief Korah, chief Gatam, and chief Amalek. These are the chiefs ^[g]descended from Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah. ¹⁷ And these are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, and chief Mizzah. These are the chiefs ^[h]descended from Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Esau’s wife Basemath. ¹⁸ And these are the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, and chief Korah. These are the chiefs ^[i]descended from Esau’s wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah. ¹⁹ These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.

²⁰ These are the sons of Seir ^(M)the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, ²¹ Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs ^[j]descended from the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom. ²² And the sons of Lotan were Hori and ^[k]Hemam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna. ²³ And these are the sons of Shobal: ^[l]Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, ^[m]Shepho, and Onam. ²⁴ And these are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah—he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness when he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon. ²⁵ And these are the children of Anah: Dishon, and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah. ²⁶ And these are the sons of ^[n](N)Dishon: ^[o]Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. ²⁷ These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and ^[p]Akan. ²⁸ These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. ²⁹ These are the chiefs ^[q]descended from the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, ³⁰ chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan. These are the chiefs ^[r]descended from the Horites, according to their various chiefs in the land of Seir.

³¹ Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any ^(O)king reigned over the sons of Israel. ^32 [s](P)Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhabah. ³³ Then Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah became king in his place. ³⁴ Then Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites became king in his place. ³⁵ Then Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who ^[t]defeated Midian in the field of Moab, became king in his place; and the name of his city was Avith. ³⁶ Then Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah became king in his place. ³⁷ Then Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates River became king in his place. ³⁸ Then Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor became king in his place. ³⁹ Then Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and ^[u]Hadar became king in his place; and the name of his city was ^[v]Pau; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab.

⁴⁰ Now these are the names of the chiefs ^[w]descended from Esau, according to their families and their localities, by their names: chief Timna, chief ^[x]Alvah, chief Jetheth, ⁴¹ chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, ⁴² chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, ⁴³ chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom (that is, Esau, the father of ^[y]the Edomites), according to their settlements in the land of their possession.