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Rise and flee to Mesopotamia, to the house of Bathouel your mother's father, and take for yourself from there a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
And may he give you the blessing of Abraham my father, to you and to your seed after you, that you may inherit the land of your sojourning, which God gave to Abraham."
And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him off to Mesopotamia of Syria to take a wife for himself from there, when he blessed him and commanded him, saying, "You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Chanaan";
And he came upon a place and slept there, for the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it at his head, and slept in that place.
And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder set firmly on the earth, whose top reached to heaven; and the angels of God were ascending and descending upon it.
And the Lord was firmly set upon it, and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. Do not be afraid. The land on which you are sleeping, upon it I will give it to you and to your seed.
And your seed shall be like the sand of the earth, and it shall spread abroad to the sea and to the south and to the north and to the east; and in you all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed, and in your seed.
And behold, I am with you, guarding you on every way wherever you go; and I will bring you back to this land, for I will not forsake you until I have done all that I have spoken to you."
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If the Lord God is with me and guards me on this way in which I am going, and gives me bread to eat and clothing to put on,