1 So Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and gave him this charge: "Do not take a wife from among the daughters of Canaan.
2 Get up and go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take a wife for yourself there from among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
3 May God Almighty bless you, make you fruitful, and multiply you, until you become a company of peoples.
4 May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your seed after you, so that you may take possession of the land where you now live as a sojourner, the land God gave to Abraham."
5 Then Isaac sent Jacob off, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he had charged him, "Do not take a wife from among the daughters of Canaan,"
7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
8 Esau then realized that the daughters of Canaan did not please his father Isaac.
9 So Esau went to Ishmael and, in addition to the wives he already had, married Mahalath daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth.
10 Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.
11 He reached a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had gone down. Taking one of the stones of that place, he put it under his head and lay down there to sleep.
12 He had a dream: there was a ladder standing on the earth with its top reaching the heavens, and the angels of God were going up and coming down on it.
13 And there was the LORD, standing above it, saying, "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. The ground you are lying on I will give to you and your seed.
14 Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out west and east, north and south. Through you and through your seed all the families of the earth will be blessed.
15 Know that I am with you; I will watch over you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
16 Jacob woke from his sleep and said, "The LORD really is in this place, and I did not know it!"
17 He was filled with fear and said, "How fearsome this place is! This is nothing less than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven."
18 Early in the morning Jacob got up, took the stone he had put under his head, set it up as a standing pillar, and poured oil over the top of it.
19 He called that place Bethel, though the city had formerly been called Luz.
20 Then Jacob vowed a vow: "If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey I am making, and give me bread to eat and clothes to wear,
21 and I return safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God.
22 This stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's house, and of everything you give me I will give a full tenth to you."