1 Then Isaac sent for Jacob, and blessing him, said, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;2 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.3 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.4 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.5 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.6 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;7 And that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and had gone to Paddan-aram;8 It was clear to Esau that his father had no love for the women of Canaan,9 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.10 So Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran.11 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.12 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.13 And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.14 Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.15 And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.16 And Jacob, awaking from his sleep, said, Truly, the Lord is in this place and I was not conscious of it.17 And fear came on him, and he said, This is a holy place; this is nothing less than the house of God and the doorway of heaven.18 And early in the morning Jacob took the stone which had been under his head, and put it up as a pillar and put oil on it.19 And he gave that place the name of Beth-el, but before that time the town was named Luz.20 Then Jacob took an oath, and said, If God will be with me, and keep me safe on my journey, and give me food and clothing to put on,21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace, then I will take the Lord to be my God,22 And this stone which I have put up for a pillar will be God's house: and of all you give me, I will give a tenth part to you.

1 Vocavit itaque Isaac Jacob, et benedixit eum, prcepitque ei dicens : Noli accipere conjugem de genere Chanaan : 2 sed vade, et proficiscere in Mesopotamiam Syri, ad domum Bathuel patris matris tu, et accipe tibi inde uxorem de filiabus Laban avunculi tui. 3 Deus autem omnipotens benedicat tibi, et crescere te faciat, atque multiplicet, ut sis in turbas populorum. 4 Et det tibi benedictiones Abrah, et semini tuo post te : ut possideas terram peregrinationis tu, quam pollicitus est avo tuo. 5 Cumque dimisisset eum Isaac, profectus venit in Mesopotamiam Syri ad Laban filium Bathuel Syri, fratrem Rebecc matris su. 6 Videns autem Esau quod benedixisset pater suus Jacob, et misisset eum in Mesopotamiam Syri, ut inde uxorem duceret ; et quod post benedictionem prcepisset ei, dicens : Non accipies uxorem de filiabus Chanaan : 7 quodque obediens Jacob parentibus suis isset in Syriam : 8 probans quoque quod non libenter aspiceret filias Chanaan pater suus : 9 ivit ad Ismalem, et duxit uxorem absque iis, quas prius habebat, Maheleth filiam Ismal filii Abraham, sororem Nabaioth.10 Igitur egressus Jacob de Bersabee, pergebat Haran. 11 Cumque venisset ad quemdam locum, et vellet in eo requiescere post solis occubitum, tulit de lapidibus qui jacebant, et supponens capiti suo, dormivit in eodem loco. 12 Viditque in somnis scalam stantem super terram, et cacumen illius tangens clum : angelos quoque Dei ascendentes et descendentes per eam, 13 et Dominum innixum scal dicentem sibi : Ego sum Dominus Deus Abraham patris tui, et Deus Isaac : terram, in qua dormis, tibi dabo et semini tuo. 14 Eritque semen tuum quasi pulvis terr : dilataberis ad occidentem, et orientem, et septentrionem, et meridiem : et benedicentur in te et in semine tuo cunct tribus terr. 15 Et ero custos tuus quocumque perrexeris, et reducam te in terram hanc : nec dimittam nisi complevero universa qu dixi. 16 Cumque evigilasset Jacob de somno, ait : Vere Dominus est in loco isto, et ego nesciebam. 17 Pavensque, Quam terribilis est, inquit, locus iste ! non est hic aliud nisi domus Dei, et porta cli. 18 Surgens ergo Jacob mane, tulit lapidem quem supposuerat capiti suo, et erexit in titulum, fundens oleum desuper. 19 Appellavitque nomen urbis Bethel, qu prius Luza vocabatur. 20 Vovit etiam votum, dicens : Si fuerit Deus mecum, et custodierit me in via, per quam ego ambulo, et dederit mihi panem ad vescendum, et vestimentum ad induendum, 21 reversusque fuero prospere ad domum patris mei : erit mihi Dominus in Deum, 22 et lapis iste, quem erexi in titulum, vocabitur Domus Dei : cunctorumque qu dederis mihi, decimas offeram tibi.