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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" /><title>Genesis 28 NIV</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="../">NIV</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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/genesis/28.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Go at once to Paddan Aram, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, Northwest Mesopotamia; also in verses 5, 6 and 7">a</a></sup></span> to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>May God Almighty <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew El-Shaddai">b</a></sup></span> bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples. <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 blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Jacob’s Dream at Bethel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>There above it <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or There beside him">c</a></sup></span> stood the <span class="name">Lord</span>, and he said: “I am the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or will use your name and the name of your offspring in blessings (see 48:20)">d</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the <span class="name">Lord</span> is in this place, and I was not aware of it.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He called that place Bethel, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Bethel means house of God.">e</a></sup></span> though the city used to be called Luz.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give 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>so that I return safely to my father’s household, then the <span class="name">Lord</span> <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Since God . . . father's household, the LORD">f</a></sup></span> will be my God <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or household, and the LORD will be my God, 22 then">g</a></sup></span> this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia; also in verses 5, 6 and 7</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew <i>El-Shaddai</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>There beside him</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>will use your name and the name of your offspring in blessings</i> (see 48:20)</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Bethel</i> means <i>house of God.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>Since God . . . father’s household, the <span class="name">Lord</span></i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>household, and the <span class="name">Lord</span> will be my God, <span class="fnref">22</span>then</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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