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And Yitzchaq called Yaaqov and blessed him, and commanded him, and said to him, “You shall not take an ishah from the daughters of Kena’an.
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Rise, go to Paddan-Aram, to the house of Betuel, father of your mother, and take for yourself from there an ishah from the daughters of Lavan, brother of your mother.
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And may El Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and you shall become an assembly of peoples.
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And may He give to you the blessing of Avraham—to you and to your seed with you—that you may inherit the land of your sojournings, which Elohim gave to Avraham.”
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And Yitzchaq sent Yaaqov away, and he went to Paddan-Aram, to Lavan son of Betuel the Arami, brother of Rivqah, mother of Yaaqov and Esav.
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And Esav saw that Yitzchaq had blessed Yaaqov and sent him to Paddan-Aram to take for himself an ishah from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, saying, “You shall not take an ishah from the daughters of Kena’an,”
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and that Yaaqov listened to his father and to his mother and went to Paddan-Aram.
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And Esav saw that the daughters of Kena’an were evil in the eyes of Yitzchaq his father.
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And Esav went to Yishma’el and took Machalat daughter of Yishma’el son of Avraham, sister of Nevayot, in addition to the women he already had, to be his ishah.
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And Yaaqov went out from Be’er-Sheva and went toward Charan.
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And he came upon a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had gone down. And he took from the stones of the place and placed one at his head, and lay down in that place.
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And he dreamed, and see: a stairway was set upon the earth, and its head reached toward the heavens. And see: messengers of Elohim were ascending and descending upon it.
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And see: Yahuah stood above it and said: “I am Yahuah, Elohim of Avraham your father and Elohim of Yitzchaq. The land upon which you are lying, I will give it to you and to your seed.
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And your seed shall become like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad toward the west and toward the east, toward the north and toward the south. And in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
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And see: I am with you, and I will guard you wherever you go. And I will return you to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.”
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And Yaaqov awakened from his sleep and said, “Surely Yahuah is in this place, and I did not know.”
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And he was afraid and said, “How fearsome is this place. This is none other than the house of Elohim, and this is the gate of the heavens.”
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And Yaaqov rose early in the morning and took the stone that he had placed at his head, and set it as a standing pillar, and poured oil upon its head.
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And he called the name of that place Beit-El; but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
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And Yaaqov vowed a vow, saying, “If Elohim will be with me, and guard me on this way that I am walking, and give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,
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and I return in peace to the house of my father, then Yahuah shall be my Elohim.
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And this stone that I have set as a standing pillar shall become the house of Elohim; and from all that You give me, giving a tenth, I will give a tenth to You.”