Story of Jacob and Esau (twin brothers) continues ...
1 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.
2
Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father;
and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's
brother. 3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and
multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; 4 And give
thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that
thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave
unto Abraham.
5 And Isaac sent away
Jacob:and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian,
the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob,
and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and
that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take
a wife of the daughters of Canaan; (Esau had already taken a wife from daughters of Canaan and this grieved his mother very much.) 7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram; 8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had
Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth,
to be his wife.
(The people
today who try to copy the people of God and have not the Spirit of God
in them are like Esau ... they always get it off a little ... and in their copy they grieve us who are of God
... Ishmael's daughters wouldn't please Esau's mother either for
Ishmael was not of the promise and had been driven away from Abraham's
house and his mother took for Isamael a daughter of Egypt. Gen. 21:21)
10
And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. 11 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.
12
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.
13 And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I
am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac:the land
whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 14 And thy
seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to
the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south:and in
thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
16
And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in
this place; and I knew it not. 17 And he was afraid, and said, How
dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and
this is the gate of heaven. 18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning,
and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a
pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. 19 And he called the name of
that place Bethel:but the name of that city was called Luz at the
first.
20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying,
If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and
will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21 So that I come
again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God:22
And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house:and
of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.