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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Genesis 28 ISV</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" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/genesis/28.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Isaac Sends Jacob to Paddan-aram</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Later, Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, instructing him, “Don’t marry a wife from the local Canaanite women. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Instead, get up, travel to Paddan-aram,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:2 Paddan-aram was located in northwest Mesopotamia">a</a></span> and visit the household of Bethuel, your mother’s father. Marry one of Laban’s daughters, since he’s your mother’s brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful so that your descendants<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:3 Lit. that you">b</a></span> become a whole group of people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>May he give you and your descendants the blessings that he gave Abraham. May you possess the land where you have lived<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:4 Lit. land of your journeying">c</a></span> that God gave to Abraham.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So Isaac sent Jacob off toward Paddan-aram<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:5 Paddan-aram was located in northwest Mesopotamia">d</a></span> to visit Bethuel’s son Laban, the Aramean<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:5 In later centuries this region would be called Syria">e</a></span> and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.</p> <p class="heading">Esau Marries a Canaanite Woman</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Esau noticed that after Isaac had blessed Jacob as he was sending him off to Paddan-aram<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:6 Paddan-aram was located in northwest Mesopotamia">f</a></span> to marry a wife from there, he had instructed Jacob,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:6 Lit. him">g</a></span> “Don’t marry a Canaanite woman.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>After Jacob had obeyed his father and mother’s instructions to set out for Paddan-aram,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:7 Paddan-aram was located in northwest Mesopotamia">h</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Esau realized<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:8 Lit. saw">i</a></span> that Canaan women didn’t please his father Isaac, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>so he went to Abraham’s son Ishmael and married Ishmael’s daughter Mahalath, who was the sister of Nebaioth.</p> <p class="heading">God Visits Jacob in a Dream</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Meanwhile, Jacob had left<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:10 Lit. went out from">j</a></span> Beer-sheba and was on his way to Haran. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He reached a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun was setting. He found a stone there, used it for a pillow,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:11 Lit. for his head.">k</a></span> and slept there for the night, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>when he had a dream! He saw a raised highway that had been built with its ending point on earth and its beginning point in heaven. God’s angels were ascending and descending on it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And there was the LORD, standing above it and telling Jacob, “I am the LORD God of your grandfather Abraham. I’m Isaac’s God, too. I’m giving you and your descendants the ground on which you’re sleeping. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Your descendants are going to become like the dust of the earth and spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:14 Or land">l</a></span> will be blessed through you and your descendants. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now pay attention! I’m here with you, and I’m going to be watching over you wherever you go. I’m going to bring you back to this land, because I won’t ever leave you until I’ve accomplished what I’ve promised about you.”</p> <p class="heading">Jacob Worships God in Bethel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then Jacob woke up during the night<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:16 Lit. woke from his sleep">m</a></span> and told himself,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:16 The Heb. lacks to himself">n</a></span> “Surely, the LORD is in this place and I never knew it!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>In mounting terror, he cried out, “How scary this place is! This is nothing less than God’s house and the gateway to heaven!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When Jacob got up early the next morning, he took the stone that he had used for his pillow,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:18 Lit. for his head">o</a></span> set it up as a pillar, drenched it with oil, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and named<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:19 Lit. called the name of">p</a></span> the place Beth-el, although previously<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:19 Lit. at the first">q</a></span> the city had been named Luz.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then he made this solemn vow:<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="28:20 Lit. vowed a vow">r</a></span> “If God remains with me, watches over me throughout this journey that I’m taking, gives me food to eat and clothes to wear, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and returns me safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>this stone that I’ve erected in the form of a pillar will be God’s house, and I’ll give you a tenth of everything that you give to me.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 28:2 Paddan-aram was located in northwest Mesopotamia<br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 28:3 Lit. <i>that you</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 28:4 Lit. <i>land of your journeying</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 28:5 Paddan-aram was located in northwest Mesopotamia<br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 28:5 In later centuries this region would be called Syria<br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 28:6 Paddan-aram was located in northwest Mesopotamia<br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 28:6 Lit. <i>him</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 28:7 Paddan-aram was located in northwest Mesopotamia<br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 28:8 Lit.<i> saw</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 28:10 Lit. <i>went out from</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 28:11 Lit. <i>for his head.</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 28:14 Or <i>land</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 28:16 Lit. <i>woke from his sleep</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 28:16 The Heb. lacks <i>to himself</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 28:18 Lit. <i>for his head</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 28:19 Lit. <i>called the name of</i><br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 28:19 Lit. <i>at the first</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 28:20 Lit. <i>vowed a vow</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/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 width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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