Genesis 27:45   (Read all of Genesis 27)

When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I'll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"

Genesis 27:46   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I'm disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living."

Genesis 28:1   (Read all of Genesis 28)

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: "Do not marry a Canaanite woman.

Genesis 28:4   (Read all of Genesis 28)

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."

Genesis 28:5   (Read all of Genesis 28)

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.

Genesis 28:6   (Read all of Genesis 28)

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,"

Genesis 28:9   (Read all of Genesis 28)

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.

Genesis 28:10   (Read all of Genesis 28)

Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran.

Genesis 28:11   (Read all of Genesis 28)

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.

Genesis 28:12   (Read all of Genesis 28)

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.

Genesis 28:13   (Read all of Genesis 28)

There above it stood the Lord, and he said: "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 are lying.

Genesis 28:14   (Read all of Genesis 28)

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.

Genesis 28:16   (Read all of Genesis 28)

When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it."

Genesis 28:17   (Read all of Genesis 28)

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."

Genesis 28:18   (Read all of Genesis 28)

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.

Genesis 28:20   (Read all of Genesis 28)

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

Genesis 28:21   (Read all of Genesis 28)

so that I return safely to my father's household, then the Lord will be my God

Genesis 28:22   (Read all of Genesis 28)

and 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."

Genesis 29:2   (Read all of Genesis 29)

There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large.

Genesis 29:3   (Read all of Genesis 29)

When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well's mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

Genesis 29:4   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Jacob asked the shepherds, "My brothers, where are you from?" "We're from Harran," they replied.

Genesis 29:5   (Read all of Genesis 29)

He said to them, "Do you know Laban, Nahor's grandson?" "Yes, we know him," they answered.

Genesis 29:6   (Read all of Genesis 29)

Then Jacob asked them, "Is he well?" "Yes, he is," they said, "and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep."

Genesis 29:7   (Read all of Genesis 29)

"Look," he said, "the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture."