Genesis 28:1-15

New American Standard Bible

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.”