Isaac called out to Jacob, blessed him, charged him in and said to him: “You shall not take a wife from one of Canaan’s daughters. Go to Padan Aram now, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and take yourself one wife of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother. “May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may be an assembly of peoples; and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and your descendants with you, that you may inherit the land in which you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.” So Isaac brought Jacob to Padan Aram to see Laban. Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Padan Aram to take himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,” and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Padan Aram. Also Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan did not please his father Isaac. So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, Ishmael’s daughter, there, to be his wife in addition to the other wives that he previously had. Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran. So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set down on him.
And he took one of the stones of that place, put it at his head, and he lay down to sleep. Then he dreamed, and there came a ladder which the Lord had set up throughout the whole earth; God’s angels were going up and down the ladder. And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: “I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants. Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread out abroad to the west, east, north and south; and in you with your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed with a great blessing upon them. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have finished talking about what I have spoken to you.” Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I didn’t know that.” And he was afraid and said, “God made a heavenly place in my heart! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!”
Then Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it. And he called the name of that place Bethel; but the name of the city had been formerly named Luz. Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I am going, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on so that I come back to my father’s house in peace. And this stone which I have set as a pillar shall be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely have a tenth handed down to You.”