1And Isaac having called for Jacob, blessed him, and charged him, saying, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites.

2Rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bathuel the father of your mother, and take to yourself thence a wife of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

3And may my God bless you, and increase you, and multiply you, and you shall become gatherings of nations.

4And may he give you the blessing of my father Abraam, even to you and to your seed after you, to inherit the land of your sojourning, which God gave to Abraam.

5So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went into Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebecca the mother of Jacob and Esau.

6And Esau saw that Isaac blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Mesopotamia of Syria as he blessed him, to take to himself a wife thence, and that he charged him, saying, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites;

7and that Jacob listened to his father and his mother, and went to Mesopotamia of Syria.

8And Esau also having seen that the daughters of Chanaan were evil before his father Isaac,

9Esau went to Ismael, and took Maeleth the daughter of Ismael, the son of Abraam, the sister of Nabeoth, a wife in addition to his other wives.

10And Jacob went forth from the well of the oath, and departed into Charrhan.

11And came to a certain place and slept there, for the sun had gone down; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it at his head, and lay down to sleep in that place,

12and dreamt, and behold a ladder fixed on the earth, whose top reached to heaven, and the angels of God ascended and descended on it.

13And the Lord ¹¹⁶stood upon it, and said, I am the God of your father Abraam, and the God of Isaac; fear not, the land on which you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.

14And your seed shall be as the sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in you and in your seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.

15And behold I am with you to preserve you continually in all the way wherein you shall go; and I will bring you back to this land; for I will not desert you, until I have done all that I have said to you.

16And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and said, The Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.

17And he was afraid, and said, How fearful is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

18And Jacob rose up in the morning, and took the stone ¹¹⁷he had laid there by his head, and he set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.

19And he called the name of that place, the House of God; and the name of the city before was Ulam-luz.

20And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If the Lord God will be with me, and guard me throughout on this journey, on which I am going, and give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

21and bring me back in safety to the house of my father, then shall the Lord be for a God to me.

22And this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be to me a house of God; and of all whatever you shall give me, I will tithe a tenth for you.