Genesis

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Genesis 28:15:
37 Isaac replied to Esau, "I've already of Bethuel, your mother's father, and once made him more powerful than you, and there, marry one of the daughters of Laban, I've made all of his brothers his servants. your mother's brother. God Almighty will I've made him strong with grain and wine. bless you, make you fertile, and give you What can I do for you, my son?"
many descendants so that you will become 38 Esau said to his father, "Do you really a large group of peoples. "He will give you have only one blessing, Father? Bless me and your descendants Abraham's blessing too, my father!" And Esau wept loudly. so that you will own the land in which you
39 His father Isaac responded and said are now immigrants, the land God gave to to him,
Abraham.” 5So Isaac sent Jacob off, and he “Now, you will make a home
traveled to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of far away from the olive groves
Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Reof the earth,
bekah, Jacob and Esau's mother. far away from the showers
Esau understood that Isaac had blessed of the sky above.
Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to marry 40 You will live by your sword;
a woman from there. He recognized that, you will serve your brother.
when Isaac blessed Jacob, he had ordered But when you grow restless,
him, “Don't marry a Canaanite woman," you will tear away his harness
and that Jacob had listened to his father from your neck."
and mother and gone to Paddan-aram. Esau
realized that his father Isaac considered CaJacob sent away for protection
naanite women unacceptable. 'So he went 4'Esau was furious at Jacob because his to Ishmael and married Mahalath daughter father had blessed him, and Esau said to of Abraham's son Ishmael and sister of Nehimself, When the period of mourning for baioth, in addition to his other wives. the death of my father is over, I will kill my brother.
Jacob's dream at Bethel 42 Rebekah was told what her older son Jacob left Beer-sheba and set out for Esau was planning, so she summoned her Haran. "He reached a certain place and younger son Jacob and said to him, “Esau spent the night there. When the sun had your brother is planning revenge. He plans set, he took one of the stones at that place to kill you. 43So now, my son, listen to me: and put it near his head. Then he lay down Get up and escape to my brother Laban in there. He dreamed and saw a raised Haran. 4-Live with him for a short while staircase, its foundation on earth and its until your brother's rage subsides, “Suntil top touching the sky, and God's messenyour brother's anger at you goes away and gers were ascending and descending on it. he forgets what you did to him. Then I will 13Suddenly the LORD was standing on it" send for you and bring you back from there. and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of Why should I suffer the loss of both of you your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I on one day?"
will give you and your descendants the land 46 Rebekah then said to Isaac, “I really on which you are lying. 14Your descendants loathe these Hittite women. If Jacob marries will become like the dust of the earth; you one of the Hittite women, like the women of will spread out to the west, east, north, and this land, why should I go on living?" south. Every family of earth will be blessed
because of you and your descendants. "SI So Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed am with you now, I will protect you everyLOhim, and gave him these orders: where you go, and I will bring you back to “Don't marry a Canaanite woman. Get up this land. I will not leave you until I have : and go to Paddan-aram, to the household done everything that I have promised you."
o 'Heb uncertain mHeb El Shaddai or God of the Mountain "Or beside it or beside him