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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 WEB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="../">WEB</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">World English Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Jacob Flees to Laban</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.</p> <p class="hdg">Esau Marries Mahalath</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan," <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn't please Isaac, his father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.</p> <p class="hdg">Jacob's Ladder</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn't know it." <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven."</p> <p class="hdg">The Stone of Bethel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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