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you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the
land where you travel, which Elohim gave to Abraham.”
Yitshak sent Ya`aqob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the
Syrian, Ribkah’s brother, Ya`aqob’s and Esau’s mother.
Now Esau saw that Yitshak had blessed Ya`aqob and sent him away to Paddan
Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command,
saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Kayinan,” and that Ya`aqob obeyed
his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram. Esau saw that the daughters of
Kayinan didn’t please Yitshak, his father. Esau went to Yishmael, and took, besides the
wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Yishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of
Nebayoth, to be his wife.
Ya`aqob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. He came to a certain
place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the
place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. He dreamed. Behold,
a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of Elohim
ascending and descending on it. Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh,
the Elohim of Abraham your father, and the Elohim of Yitshak. The land whereon you lie,
to you will I give it, and to your seed. Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you
will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you
and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed. Behold, I am with you, and
will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not
leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
Ya`aqob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place,
and I didn’t know it.” He was afraid, and said, “How dreadful is this place! This is none
other than Elohim’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”
Ya`aqob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his
head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top. He called the name of that place
Bethel [House of the Mighty One], but the name of the city was Luz at the first. Ya`aqob
vowed a vow, saying, “If Elohim will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go,
and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on, so that I come again to my father’s
house in peace, and Yahweh will be my Elohim, then this stone, which I have set up for a
pillar, will be Elohim’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to
you.”
Then Ya`aqob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by
it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.
There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and
watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in its place. Ya`aqob said

to them, “My relatives, where are you from?”

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