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Then Isaac sent for Jacob, and blessing him, said, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;
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But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
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And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.
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And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.
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So Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
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So when Esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing, and sent him away to Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself there, blessing him and saying to him, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;
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And that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and had gone to Paddan-aram;
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It was clear to Esau that his father had no love for the women of Canaan,
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So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.
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So Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran.
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And coming to a certain place, he made it his resting-place for the night, for the sun had gone down; and he took one of the stones which were there, and putting it under his head he went to sleep in that place.
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And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and down on them.