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and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban your mothers brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>May He also give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you, that you may possess the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take to himself a wife from there, <i>and that</i> when he blessed him he charged him, saying, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan displeased his father Isaac; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>and Esau went to Ishmael, and married, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abrahams son, the sister of Nebaioth. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Jacobs Dream</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>He came to a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head, and lay down in that place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>He had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>And behold, the L<font size="1">ORD</font> stood above it and said, I am the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your descendants. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, Surely the L<font size="1">ORD</font> is in this place, and I did not know it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>He was afraid and said, How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>So Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on its top. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>He called the name of that place Bethel; however, previously the name of the city had been Luz. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Then Jacob made a vow, saying, If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I take, and will give me food to eat and garments to wear, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>and I return to my fathers house in safety, then the L<font size="1">ORD</font> will be my God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/28-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>This stone, which I have set up as a pillar, will be Gods house, and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/genesis/28.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/genesis/28.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/genesis/28.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/genesis/28.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/genesis/28.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/genesis/28.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/genesis/28.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Isaac calleth unto Jacob, and blesseth him, and commandeth him, and saith to him, 'Thou dost not take a wife of the daughters of Caanan;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_heavenly_pathway_and_the.htm">The Heavenly Pathway and the Earthly Heart</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. 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. And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_heavenly_pathway_and_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/february_the_fifth_everywhere_the.htm">February the Fifth Everywhere the Gate of Heaven</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not." --GENESIS xxviii. 10-22. That is the first time for many a day that Jacob had named the name of God. In all the dark story of his wicked intrigue the name of God is never mentioned. Jacob wanted to forget God! God would be a disturbing presence! But here he encounters Him in a dream, and in the most unlikely place. "And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place!" Jacob had yet to learn that there is everywhere "a ladder set up on <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/february_the_fifth_everywhere_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Jowett—</span><span class="citation2">My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/percival/sermons_at_rugby/x_the_presence_of_god.htm">The Presence of God. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"And Jacob awakened out of his sleep and said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not."--GENESIS xxviii. 16. These words indicate the beginning of a new life in the patriarch Jacob. They tell us of the moment when, as it would appear, his soul awoke in him. And they surprise us in some degree, as such awakenings of spiritual capacity often do; for Jacob's recorded antecedents were not exactly such as to lead us to expect the dream and the vision, and the awakening which are described <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/percival/sermons_at_rugby/x_the_presence_of_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Percival—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons at Rugby</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_7_1861/jacobs_waking_exclamation.htm">Jacob's Waking Exclamation</a><br></span><span class="snippet">I would address you this morning upon a topic which may perhaps be as useful to us as to Jacob, if God the Holy Ghost shall but enable me to preach, and you to hear. Oh thou that art everywhere, be speedily now; be thou in this place, and may we know it, and tremble in thy presence. I shall speak on three points; first, the omnipresence of God--the doctrine of it; secondly, a recognition of that omnipresence, or the spirit which is necessary in order to discover the presence of God; and thirdly, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_7_1861/jacobs_waking_exclamation.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 7: 1861</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/traherne/centuries_of_meditations/notes_on_the_first_century_.htm">Notes on the First Century:</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Page 1. Line 1. An empty book is like an infant's soul.' Here Traherne may possibly have had in his mind a passage in Bishop Earle's "Microcosmography." In delineating the character of a child, Earle says: "His soul is yet a white paper unscribbled with observations of the world, wherewith at length it becomes a blurred note-book," Page 14. Line 25. The entrance of his words. This sentence is from Psalm cxix. 130. Page 15. Last line of Med. 21. "Insatiableness." This word in Traherne's time was often <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/traherne/centuries_of_meditations/notes_on_the_first_century_.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Traherne—</span><span class="citation2">Centuries of Meditations</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_8_1863/never_never_never_never_never.htm">Never! Never! Never! Never! Never!</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Hence, let us learn, my brethren, the extreme value of searching the Scriptures. There may be a promise in the Word which would exactly fit your case, but you may not know of it, and therefore miss its comfort. You are like prisoners in a dungeon, and there may be one key in the bunch which would unlock the door, and you might be free; but if you will not look for it you may remain a prisoner still, though liberty is near at hand. There may be a potent medicine in the great pharmacopia of Scripture, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_8_1863/never_never_never_never_never.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 8: 1863</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/de_caussade/abandonment_to_divine_providence/section_v_the_life_of_faith.htm">The Life of Faith. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The fruit of these trials. The conduct of the submissive soul. It results from all that has just been described that, in the path of pure faith, all that takes place spiritually, physically, and temporarily, has the aspect of death. This is not to be wondered at. What else could be expected? It is natural to this state. God has His plans for souls, and under this disguise He carries them out very successfully. Under the name of "disguise" I include ill-success, corporal infirmities, and spiritual <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/de_caussade/abandonment_to_divine_providence/section_v_the_life_of_faith.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Jean-Pierre de Caussade—</span><span class="citation2">Abandonment to Divine Providence</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet_talks_about_jesus/2_the_plan_for_the.htm">The Plan for the Coming of Jesus. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">God's Darling, Psalms 8:5-8.--the plan for the new man--the Hebrew picture by itself--difference between God's plan and actual events--one purpose through breaking plans--the original plan--a starting point--getting inside. Fastening a Tether inside: the longest way around--the pedigree--the start. First Touches on the Canvas: the first touch, Genesis 3:15.--three groups of prediction--first group: to Abraham, Genesis 12:1-3; to Isaac, Genesis 26:1-5; to Jacob, Genesis 28:10-15; through Jacob, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet_talks_about_jesus/2_the_plan_for_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">S. D. Gordon—</span><span class="citation2">Quiet Talks about Jesus</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_prophecy_of_obadiah.htm">The Prophecy of Obadiah. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">We need not enter into details regarding the question as to the time when the prophet wrote. By a thorough argumentation, Caspari has proved, that he occupies his right position in the Canon, and hence belongs to the earliest age of written prophecy, i.e., to the time of Jeroboam II. and Uzziah. As bearing conclusively against those who would assign to him a far later date, viz., the time of the exile, there is not only the indirect testimony borne by the place which this prophecy occupies in <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_prophecy_of_obadiah.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—</span><span class="citation2">Christology of the Old Testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bernard/some_letters_of_saint_bernard_abbot_of_clairvaux/letter_xxviii_circa_a_d_1130.htm">Letter xxviii (Circa A. D. 1130) to the Abbots Assembled at Soissons</a><br></span><span class="snippet">To the Abbots Assembled at Soissons [45] Bernard urges the abbots zealously to perform the duty for which they had met. He recommends to them a great desire of spiritual progress, and begs them not to be delayed in their work if lukewarm and lax persons should perhaps murmur. To the Reverend Abbots met in the name of the Lord in Chapter at Soissons, brother Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, the servant of their Holiness, health and prayer that they may see, establish, and observe the things which are <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bernard/some_letters_of_saint_bernard_abbot_of_clairvaux/letter_xxviii_circa_a_d_1130.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Bernard of Clairvaux—</span><span class="citation2">Some Letters of Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_v_that_the_ruler.htm">That the Ruler Should be a Near Neighbour to Every one in Compassion, and Exalted Above all in Contemplation. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The ruler should be a near neighbour to every one in sympathy, and exalted above all in contemplation, so that through the bowels of loving-kindness he may transfer the infirmities of others to himself, and by loftiness of speculation transcend even himself in his aspiration after the invisible; lest either in seeking high things he despise the weak things of his neighbours, or in suiting himself to the weak things of his neighbours he relinquish his aspiration after high things. For hence it is <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_v_that_the_ruler.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Leo the Great—</span><span class="citation2">Writings of Leo the Great</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/28-1.htm">Genesis 28:1 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/genesis/28-1.htm">Genesis 28:1 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/genesis/28-1.htm">Genesis 28:1 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/genesis/28-1.htm">Genesis 28:1 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/genesis/28-1.htm">Genesis 28:1 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/28-1.htm">Genesis 28:1 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/genesis/28-1.htm">Genesis 28:1 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/27-46.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 27:46"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 27:46" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/28-2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 28:2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 28:2" /></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/mp/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"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>