Jacob’s Departure 1 ULT Then Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him, and commanded him and said to him,“Do not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. BSB BSB: So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.
2 ULT Get up, go to Paddan Aram, to the home of Bethuel the father of your mother, and take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laban the brother of your mother. BSB BSB: “Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
3 ULT And may God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples. BSB BSB: May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
4 ULT And may he give the blessing of Abraham to you, to you and to your offspring with you, so that you possess the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.” BSB BSB: And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”
5 ULT Then Isaac sent Jacob, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean and the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. BSB BSB: So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Esau Marries Mahalath 6 ULT Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife for himself from there,{ and that} when he blessed him, then he commanded him, saying,“Do not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,” BSB BSB: Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
7 ULT and{ that} Jacob listened to his father and to his mother and went to Paddan Aram. BSB BSB: and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
8 ULT Then Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were displeasing in the eyes of Isaac his father. BSB BSB: And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
9 ULT So Esau went to Ishmael and he took as a wife Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’ s son, the sister of Nebaioth, in addition to his wives{ who belonged} to him. BSB BSB: Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.
Jacob’s Ladder 10 ULT And Jacob left from Beersheba and set out for Haran. BSB BSB: Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.
11 ULT Then he reached a{ certain} place, and he stopped there because the sun had gone. And he took{ one} of the stones of the place and put it under his head, and he lay down in that place. BSB BSB: On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
12 ULT And he dreamed, and behold, a stairway was set up on the earth and its top reached to the heavens, and behold, angels of God were ascending and descending on it. BSB BSB: And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.
13 ULT And behold, Yahweh was standing above it, and he said,“I{ am} Yahweh, the God of Abraham your grandfather and the God of Isaac. The land that you are lying on I will give to you and to your offspring. BSB BSB: And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
14 ULT And your offspring will 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 offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed. BSB BSB: Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
15 ULT And behold, I{ am} with you, and I will watch over you in every{ place} that you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.” BSB BSB: Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
16 ULT Then Jacob woke up from his sleep and said,“Surely Yahweh is in this place, but I did not know{ it}!” BSB BSB: When Jacob woke up, he said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”
17 ULT So he was afraid and said,“How awesome this place is! This is nothing other than the house of God, and this{ is} the gateway of heaven!” BSB BSB: And 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!”
The Stone of Bethel 18 ULT Then in the morning Jacob got up early, and he took the stone that he had put under his head and stood it up{ as} a pillar, and he poured oil on its top. BSB BSB: Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,
19 ULT And he called the name of that place Bethel, even though Luz{ had been} the name of the town at first. BSB BSB: and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.
20 ULT Then Jacob vowed a vow, saying,“If God will be with me and watch over me on this road that I am walking on and give to me bread to eat and clothes to wear, BSB BSB: Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,
21 ULT and{ if} I return in peace to the home of my father, then Yahweh will be God to me, BSB BSB: so that I may return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God.
22 ULT and this stone that I have stood up{ as} a pillar will be the house of God, and all that you give to me I will tithe a tenth to you.” BSB BSB: And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”