1 And Isaac called to Jacob, and blessed him, and commanded him, and said to him, “You must not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2 Rise, go to Padan-Aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take for yourself a wife from there, from the daughters of your mother’s brother Laban. 3 And God Almighty will bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and you have become an assembly of peoples. 4 And He gives to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed with you, to cause you to possess the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.” 5 And Isaac sent Jacob away, and he goes to Padan-Aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau. 6 And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and had sent him to Padan-Aram to take to himself from there a wife—in his blessing him that he lays a charge on him, saying, You must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan— 7 that Jacob listened to his father and to his mother, and goes to Padan-Aram— 8 and Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the eyes of his father Isaac, 9 and Esau goes to Ishmael, and took Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, sister of Nebajoth, to his wives, to himself, for a wife. 10 And Jacob goes out from Beer-Sheba, and goes toward Haran, 11 and he touched at a certain place, and lodged there, for the sun had gone in, and he took of the stones of the place, and made them his pillows, and lay down in that place. 12 And he dreamed, and look, a ladder set up on the earth, and its head was touching the heavens. And look, messengers of God were going up and coming down by it. 13 And look, YHWH was standing on it, and He said, “I am YHWH, God of your father Abraham, and God of Isaac. The land on which you are lying, to you I give it, and to your seed. 14 And your seed will be as the dust of the land, and you will have broken out westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in you and in your seed. 15 And look, I am with you, and have kept you wherever you go, and have caused you to return to this ground. For I do not leave you until I have surely done that which I have spoken to you.” 16 And Jacob awoke from out of his sleep and said, “Surely YHWH is in this place, and I did not know.” 17 And he feared and said, “How fearful is this place. This is nothing but a house of God, and this a gate of the heavens.” 18 And Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone which he had made his pillows, and made it a standing pillar, and poured oil on its top, 19 and he called the name of that place Bethel, house of God, and yet, Luz was the name of the city at the first. 20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “Seeing God is with me, and has kept me in this way which I am going, and has given to me bread to eat, and a garment to put on— 21 when I have turned back in peace to the house of my father, and YHWH has become my God, 22 then this stone which I have made a standing pillar is a house of God, and all that You give to me—tithing I tithe to You.”