Jacob’s Departure
So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded. Gen 24:3Gen 28:3-4Gen 27:462Co 6:14-16Gen 24:37Gen 26:34-35Gen 6:2Deu 33:1 “Go at once to Paddan-aram, 1 to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. Gen 25:20Hos 12:12Gen 22:20-23Gen 24:15-24Gen 24:29Gen 24:50Gen 28:5Gen 32:10 May God Almighty 2bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples. Gen 48:3Gen 35:11Gen 1:28Gen 17:1-6Gen 22:17-18Gen 13:16Gen 41:52Gen 43:14 And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.” Gal 3:14Gen 12:7Eph 1:3Gen 17:6-8Gal 3:8Gen 12:1-3Gen 13:14-17Gen 15:18-21
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Esau Marries Mahalath
Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,” Gen 27:33Gen 28:1 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram. Col 3:20Eph 6:1Eph 6:3Exo 20:12Gen 27:43Lev 19:3Pro 1:8Pro 30:17
And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women, Gen 24:3Gen 26:34-351Sa 8:6Gen 28:1 Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had. Gen 36:3Gen 25:13-17Gen 26:34Gen 36:13Gen 36:18
Jacob’s Ladder
Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran. Act 7:2Gen 11:31Gen 32:10Hos 12:12Act 25:13 On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. Gen 28:18Mat 8:202Co 1:5Gen 31:46
And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder. Jhn 1:51Gen 32:1-2Num 12:6Job 33:15-16Gen 15:12Ti 4:16-17Gen 37:5-11Gen 15:12 And there at the top 3the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie. Gen 13:15Gen 35:12Gen 48:3Gen 26:24Gen 35:1Gen 12:7Exo 3:6Gen 46:3 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. Gen 12:3Gen 18:18Gen 22:18Act 3:25Gen 13:16Gen 26:4Gal 3:8Gen 13:14 Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” Jos 1:5Isa 41:10Jer 1:19Deu 31:6Gen 26:24Gen 31:3Heb 13:5-6Psa 121:5-8
When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.” Jos 5:15Exo 15:11Exo 3:5Job 9:111Sa 3:4-7Job 33:14Isa 8:13Psa 68:35 And 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!” 1Ti 3:15Gen 35:1-13Ecc 5:1Exo 3:62Ch 5:14Gen 28:22Jdg 13:22Luk 2:9
The Stone of Bethel
Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it, Gen 35:14Gen 31:13Gen 31:45Lev 8:10-12Gen 22:3Gen 35:20Num 7:11Sa 7:12 and he called that place Bethel, 4 though previously the city had been named Luz. Gen 35:1Gen 48:3Hos 12:4-51Ki 12:29Gen 12:8Hos 4:15Jdg 1:22-26
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear, 1Ti 6:82Sa 15:8Gen 31:13Jhn 1:16Psa 66:13Act 23:12-15Jdg 11:30-31Psa 116:14 so that I may return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God. Deu 26:17Jdg 11:31Exo 15:22Sa 15:82Sa 19:242Sa 19:302Ki 5:17 And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.” Gen 35:7Gen 14:20Deu 14:22-23Lev 27:30-33Gen 35:1Gen 12:8Gen 28:17Gen 33:20