The Lord God Appears to Jacob on a Ladder in a Dream |
Genesis 28:1-22 The First Book of Moses Called Genesis |
Isaac called Jacob & blessed him and [commanded] him & said, You shall not take a wife [from] the daughters of Canaan, [but] arise & go to Padan Aram to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, to [find] you a wife [from] the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. |
*[May] God Almighty bless you & make you fruitful & multiply you that you may be a multitude of people & give you the blessing of Abraham & to your [descendants] with you, that you may inherit the land where you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham. |
[Genesis 22:17 That in blessing, I will bless you & in multiplying, I will multiply your [descendants like] the stars of the heaven & the sand which is upon the seashore. And your [descendants] shall possess the gate of his enemies.] Isaac sent Jacob away to Padan Aram to Laban, [who] was the son of Bethuel, the Syrian & [was] the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's & Esau's mother. |
When Esau saw that as Isaac had blessed Jacob & sent him away to Padan Aram, to [find] a wife from [there] & [commanded] Jacob, saying, You shall not take a wife [from] the daughters of Canaan; And that Jacob obeyed his father & mother & [left for] Padan Aram. |
Then, Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan, [didn't] please Isaac, his father, he went to Ishmael [Abraham’s son by Hagar] & married his daughter, Mahalath, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife. [Genesis 26:34 And Esau was 40 years old when he took [as] wife, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hittite & Bashemath, the daughter of Elon, the Hittite.] |
Jacob went out from BeerSheba toward Haran & came to a certain place & [stayed] there all night, because the sun had set. And he took & put stones [from] that place [at his head] as pillows & lay down to sleep. And when he dreamed: a ladder was set up on the earth & [its] top reached to heaven & the angels of God were ascending & descending on it. |
And [Jacob saw,] the Lord stood above it & said, I am the Lord God of Abraham, your father & the God of Isaac. *The land where you lie, I will give to you & your [descendants.] Your [descendants] shall be [like] the dust of the earth & spread to the west, east, north & to the south & in you & in your [descendants] shall the families of the earth be blessed. |
[Isaiah 9:6 For unto to us, a Child is born, unto to us, a Son is given & the government shall be upon His shoulder. And His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God & the Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.] |
*[See,] I am with you & will keep you in all places, wherever you go & will bring you [back] again to this land; for I will not leave you, until I have done what I have spoken [about] to you. |
[Joshua 24:12-13 And I sent the hornets [in front of] you, which [drove] them out from before you. Even the 2 kings of the Amorites, but not with your sword [or] bow. And I have given you a land for which you didn't [work] & cities [that you didn't] build & you [live] in them. You eat of the vineyards you [didn't] plant.] |
Jacob [awoke from] his sleep & said, Surely the Lord is in this place & I [didn’t] know it. He was afraid & said, How [inspiring] is this place! This is none other than the house of God & the gate of heaven. |
Jacob arose early in the morning & took the stone that he had put for his pillows & set it up as a pillar & poured oil on top of it. [Jacob] called the name of the place BethEl, but the name of that city was called Luz, [previously.] |
Jacob [made] a vow saying, If God will be with me & keep me [on] this [road] that I go & will give me bread to eat & [clothing] to put on, so that I come back to my father’s house in peace; then the Lord shall be my God. And this stone which I have set [for] a pillar, shall be God’s house & all that You shall give me, I will surely give a 1/10th to You, [Lord God.] |