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2. When Jacob found out his brother Esau was planning to kill him in revenge for
deceiving him out of his father’s blessing, his mother suggested he fled to stay
with her brother Laban. Isaac blessed Jacob before he left and told him not to
marry a Canaanite woman but find a wife from the daughters of Laban.

3. So Jacob set off on the long journey north to Harran in Paddan Aram where Laban
and his family lived.

4. On his travels he stopped for the night, because the sun had set. Taking one of
the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.

5. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top
reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were climbing up and down it. There
above it stood the Lord.

6. The Lord said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham and Isaac. I will give you and your
descendants the land on which you are lying. Your descendants will be like the dust of the
earth, and you will spread out in every direction. Everyone on earth will be blessed through
you and your offspring. I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will
bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised.”

7. When Jacob woke he thought, “The Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of
it.” He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than
the house of God. This is the gate of heaven.”

8. Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his
head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it.

9. He called that place Bethel which means ‘House of God.’

10. Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, protect me and provide food to
eat and clothes to wear so that I return safely to my father’s household, then
the Lord will be my God.”

11. Jacob declared, “This stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s
house, and of all that You give me I will give You a tenth.”

12. Jacob then set off again on his journey to Harran in Paddan Aram to stay with his
mother’s brother, Laban.

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