Genesis 28

vayyiqra yitskhaq el-ya'aqov vayevarekh oto vayetsavvehu vayyomer lo lo-tiqqakh isha mibbenot kena'an

So Isaac sent for Jacob and blessed him. He instructed him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from among the Canaanite women.

qum lekh paddenah aram betah vetu'el avi immekha veqakh-lekha misham isha mibbenot lavan akhi immekha

Up, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and take a wife there from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

ve'el shadday yevarekh otekha veyafrekha veyarbekha vehayita liqhal ammim

May El Shaddai bless you, make you fertile and numerous, so that you become an assembly of peoples.

veyitten-lekha et-birkat avraham lekha ulezarakha ittakh lerishtekha et-erets megurekha asher-natan elohim le'avraham

May you and your offspring be granted the blessing of Abraham, that you may possess the land where you are sojourning, which God assigned to Abraham.”

vayyishlakh yitskhaq et-ya'aqov vayyelekh paddenah aram el-lavan ben-betu'el ha'arammi akhi rivqah em ya'aqov ve'esav

Then Isaac sent Jacob off, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau.

vayyar esav ki-verakh yitskhaq et-ya'aqov veshillakh oto paddenah aram laqakhat-lo misham isha bevarekho oto vayetsav alayw lemor lo-tiqqakh isha mibbenot kena'an

When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, charging him, as he blessed him, “You shall not take a wife from among the Canaanite women,”

vayyishma ya'aqov el-aviv ve'el-immo vayyelekh paddenah aram

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram,

vayyar esav ki ra'ot benot kena'an be'ene yitskhaq aviv

Esau realized that the Canaanite women displeased his father Isaac.

vayyelekh esav el-yishma'el vayyiqqakh et-makhalat bat-yishma'el ben-avraham akhot nevayot al-nashayw lo le'isha

So Esau went to Ishmael and took to wife, in addition to the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, sister of Nebaioth.

vayyetse ya'aqov mibbe'er shava vayyelekh kharanah

Jacob left Beer-sheba, and set out for Haran.

vayyifga bammaqom vayyalen sham ki-va hashemesh vayyiqqakh me'avne hammaqom vayyasem mera'ashotayw vayyishkav bammaqom hahu

He came upon a certain place and stopped there for the night, for the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of that place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place.

vayyakhalom vehinneh sullam mutsav artsah verosho maggia hashamayemah vehinneh malakhe elohim olim veyoredim bo

He had a dream; a stairway was set on the ground and its top reached to the sky, and angels of God were going up and down on it.

vehinneh Adonai nitsav alayw vayyomar ani Adonai elohe avraham avikha velohe yitskhaq ha'arets asher attah shokhev aleha lekha ettenennah ulezarekha

And standing beside him was GOD, who said, “I am the ETERNAL, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac: the ground on which you are lying I will assign to you and to your offspring.

vehayah zarakha ka'afar ha'arets ufaratsta yammah vaqedemah vetsafonah vanegbah venivrekhu vekha kol-mishpekhot ha'adamah uvezarekha

Your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All the families of the earth shall bless themselves by you and your descendants.

vehinneh anokhi immakh ushemartikha bekhol asher-telekh vahashivotikha el-ha'adamah hazzot ki lo e'ezovkha ad asher im-asiti et asher-dibbarti lakh

Remember, I am with you: I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

vayyiqats ya'aqov mishenato vayyomer akhen yesh Adonai bammaqom hazzeh ve'anokhi lo yada'eti

Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely GOD is present in this place, and I did not know it!”

vayyira vayyomar mah-nnora hammaqom hazzeh en zeh ki im-bet elohim vezeh sha'ar hashamayim

Shaken, he said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the abode of God, and that is the gateway to heaven.”

vayyashkem ya'aqov babboqer vayyiqqakh et-ha'even asher-sam mera'ashotayw vayyasem otah matsevah vayyitsoq shemen al-roshah

Early in the morning, Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.

vayyiqra et-shem-hammaqom hahu bet-el ve'ulam luz shem-ha'ir larishonah

He named that site Bethel; but previously the name of the city had been Luz.

vayyiddar ya'aqov neder lemor im-yihyeh elohim immadi ushemarani badderekh hazzeh asher anokhi holekh venatan-li lekhem le'ekhol uveged lilbosh

Jacob then made a vow, saying, “If God remains with me, protecting me on this journey that I am making, and giving me bread to eat and clothing to wear,

veshavti veshalom el-bet avi vehayah Adonai li lelohim

and I return safe to my father’s house—the ETERNAL shall be my God.

veha'even hazzot asher-samti matsevah yihyeh bet elohim vekhol asher titten-li asser a'asserennu lakh

And this stone, which I have set up as a pillar, shall be God’s abode; and of all that You give me, I will set aside a tithe for You.”