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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 28 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/28.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/28-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Genesis 28</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/27.htm" title="Genesis 27">◄</a> Genesis 28 <a href="../genesis/29.htm" title="Genesis 29">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Isaac's Instructions to Jacob</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_28_1"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.1" class="v0_28_1">1</span>Isaac called in Jacob, then gave him a blessing, and said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v0_28_1">Don't marry any of those Canaanite women. </span><span class="v0_28_2"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.2" class="v0_28_2">2</span>Go at once to your mother's father Bethuel in northern Syria<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.28.2!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and choose a wife from one of the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother. </span><span class="v0_28_3"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.3" class="v0_28_3">3</span>I pray that God All-Powerful will bless you with many descendants and let you become a great nation. </span><span class="v0_28_4"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.4" class="v0_28_4">4</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.28.4!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> May he bless you with the land he promised Abraham, so that you will take over this land where we now live as foreigners.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_28_5"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.5" class="v0_28_5">5</span>Isaac then sent Jacob to stay with Rebekah's brother Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Esau Marries the Daughter of Ishmael</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_28_6"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.6" class="v0_28_6">6</span>Esau found out that his father Isaac had blessed Jacob and had warned him not to marry any of the Canaanite women. He also learned that Jacob had been sent to find a wife in northern Syria<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.28.6!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v0_28_7"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.7" class="v0_28_7">7</span>and that he had obeyed his father and mother. </span><span class="v0_28_8"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.8" class="v0_28_8">8</span>Esau already had several wives, but he now realized how much his father hated the Canaanite women. </span><span class="v0_28_9"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.9" class="v0_28_9">9</span>So he married Ishmael's daughter Mahalath, who was the sister of Nebaioth<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.28.9!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and the granddaughter of Abraham.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Jacob's Dream at Bethel</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_28_10"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.10" class="v0_28_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.28.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Jacob left the town of Beersheba and started out for Haran. </span><span class="v0_28_11"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.11" class="v0_28_11">11</span>At sunset he stopped for the night and went to sleep, resting his head on a large rock. </span><span class="v0_28_12"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.12" class="v0_28_12">12</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.28.12!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> In a dream he saw a ladder that reached from earth to heaven, and God's angels were going up and down on it.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_28_13"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.13" class="v0_28_13">13</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.28.13!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The <span class="nd">Lord</span> was standing beside the ladder<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.28.13!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v0_28_13">I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God who was worshiped by Abraham and Isaac. I will give to you and your family the land on which you are now sleeping. </span><span class="v0_28_14"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.14" class="v0_28_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.28.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Your descendants will spread over the earth in all directions and will become as numerous as the specks of dust. Your family will be a blessing to all people.<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.28.14!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v0_28_15"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.15" class="v0_28_15">15</span>Wherever you go, I will watch over you, then later I will bring you back to this land. I won't leave you—I will do all I have promised.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_28_16"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.16" class="v0_28_16">16</span>Jacob woke up suddenly and thought, “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> is in this place, and I didn't even know it.” </span><span class="v0_28_17"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.17" class="v0_28_17">17</span>Then Jacob became frightened and said, “What a frightening place! It must be the house of God and the gateway to heaven.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_28_18"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.18" class="v0_28_18">18</span>When Jacob got up early the next morning, he took the rock that he had used for a pillow and stood it up as a place of worship. Then he poured olive oil on the rock to dedicate it to God, </span><span class="v0_28_19"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.19" class="v0_28_19">19</span>and he named the place Bethel.<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.28.19!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Before that it had been named Luz.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_28_20"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.20" class="v0_28_20">20</span>Jacob solemnly promised God, “If you go with me and watch over me as I travel, and if you give me food and clothes </span><span class="v0_28_21"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.21" class="v0_28_21">21</span>and bring me safely home again, you will be my God. </span><span class="v0_28_22"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.28.22" class="v0_28_22">22</span>This rock will be your house, and I will give back to you a tenth of everything you give me.”</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">28.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">northern Syria: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 24.10.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">28.6 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">northern Syria: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 24.10.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">28.9 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Nebaioth: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Ishmael's oldest son (see 25.13).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">28.13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the ladder: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “Jacob” or “the stairway.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">28.14 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Your family … people: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “All people will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your family.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">28.19 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Bethel: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">In Hebrew “Bethel” means “House of God.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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