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and that Jacob had hearkened unto his father and his mother and had gone to Padanaram;
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and Esau, seeing that the daughters of Canaan did not please Isaac his father,
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Esau went unto Ishmael and took unto the wives which he had, Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
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And Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.
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And he found a certain place and slept there all night because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place and put
them for his pillows and lay down in that place to sleep.
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And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
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And, behold, the LORD stood above it and said, I AM the God of Abraham, thy father, and the God of Isaac; the land upon which thou dost lie, to thee will I give it and to thy seed;
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and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt multiply to the west and to the east and to the Aquilon and to the Negev; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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And, behold, I
am with thee and will keep thee in all
places where thou goest and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee until I have done
that which I have spoken to thee of.
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And Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place, and I knew
it not.
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And he was afraid and said, How dreadful
is this place! this
is none other but the house of God, and this
is the gate of heaven.