1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and commanded him, and said, Thou shalt not take thee a wife from the daughters of Canaan;

2 Arise, and go to Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

3 And God Almighty bless thee, that he may multiply thee, and that he may multiply thee, and that of thee there shall be a multitude of nations,

4 And may he give thee the blessing of Abraham, and thee and thy descendants with thee, that thou mayest inherit the land of thy pilgrimage which God gave unto Abraham.

5 And Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramean, to the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

6 And when Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and having blessed him, he had sent him to Mesopotamia to take a wife from there, and commanded him, saying, "Thou shalt not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan;

7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and went into Mesopotamia.

8 And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were not pleasing to Isaac his father;

9 And Esau went to Ishmael, and took for himself a wife, Mahalatha, the daughter of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, the sister of Nebaioth, above his other wives.

10 And Jacob went out of Beersheba, and went to Haran,

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

12 And he saw in a dream, Behold, a ladder stood on the earth, and the top of it touched the sky; and behold, the angels of God ascend and descend on it.

13 And behold, the Lord stood upon it, saying, 'I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac; [Do not be afraid]. The land on which you lie I will give you and your descendants;

14 And thy descendants shall be as the sand of the earth; and you will spread to the sea, and to the east, and to the north, and to the noonday; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed;