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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 ERV</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'; 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and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, 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 thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt 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>and Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and Esau went unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which 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>And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and 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>And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, 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>And 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 upon the top of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And he called the name of that place Beth-el: 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>And 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 raiment 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, then shall the LORD be my God, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/27.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 27"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 27" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/29.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 29"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 29" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/genesis/28-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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