# Genesis 28

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/28

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. He commanded him, “Do not marry a woman from the daughters of Canaan.
2. Go at once to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father, and take a wife for yourself there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
3. May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you become a community of peoples.
4. May he give you and your offspring with you the blessing of Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”
5. So Isaac sent Jacob away, 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.
6. Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a woman from the daughters of Canaan,”
7. and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan Aram.
8. Esau realized how much his father Isaac disliked the daughters of Canaan.
9. So Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath the daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth, in addition to the wives he already had.
10. Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.
11. He came to a certain place and stopped there for the night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, put it under his head, and lay down to sleep there.
12. He had a dream: there was a stairway set up on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and coming down on it.
13. And there was Yahweh, standing above it, and he said, “I am Yahweh, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. The land you are lying on I will give to you and to your offspring.
14. Your offspring 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 the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
15. I am with you, and I 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.”
16. Then Jacob woke up from his sleep and said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I did not know it.”
17. He was afraid and said, “How awesome this place is! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”
18. Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had put under his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it.
19. He named that place Bethel, though the city had been called Luz before that.
20. Then Jacob made a vow: “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey I am taking, and give me food to eat and clothes to wear,
21. so that I come back to my father’s house in peace, then Yahweh will be my God,
22. and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of everything you give me I will give you a tenth.”

## Nearby chapters

[Genesis 27](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/27.md)
[Genesis 29](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/29.md)

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