| New Living Translation | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1So Isaac called for Jacob, blessed him, and said, “You must not marry any of these Canaanite women. | 1Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him: "Don't take a wife from the Canaanite women. |
| 2Instead, go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of your uncle Laban’s daughters. | 2Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father. Marry one of the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother. |
| 3May God Almighty bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants multiply and become many nations! | 3May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples. |
| 4May God pass on to you and your descendants the blessings he promised to Abraham. May you own this land where you are now living as a foreigner, for God gave this land to Abraham.” | 4May God give you and your offspring the blessing of Abraham so that you may possess the land where you live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham." |
| 5So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to stay with his uncle Laban, his mother’s brother, the son of Bethuel the Aramean. | 5So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. |
| 6Esau knew that his father, Isaac, had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to find a wife, and that he had warned Jacob, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.” | 6Esau noticed that Isaac blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to get a wife there. When he blessed him, Isaac commanded Jacob, "Do not marry a Canaanite woman." |
| 7He also knew that Jacob had obeyed his parents and gone to Paddan-aram. | 7And Jacob listened to his father and mother and went to Paddan-aram. |
| 8It was now very clear to Esau that his father did not like the local Canaanite women. | 8Esau realized that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women, |
| 9So Esau visited his uncle Ishmael’s family and married one of Ishmael’s daughters, in addition to the wives he already had. His new wife’s name was Mahalath. She was the sister of Nebaioth and the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son. Jacob’s Dream at Bethel | 9so Esau went to Ishmael and married, in addition to his other wives, Mahalath daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son. She was the sister of Nebaioth. |
| 10Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and traveled toward Haran. | 10Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran. |
| 11At sundown he arrived at a good place to set up camp and stopped there for the night. Jacob found a stone to rest his head against and lay down to sleep. | 11He reached a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set. He took one of the stones from the place, put it there at his head, and lay down in that place. |
| 12As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway. | 12And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground with its top reaching heaven, and God's angels were going up and down on it. |
| 13At the top of the stairway stood the LORD, and he said, “I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham, and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I am giving it to you and your descendants. | 13Yahweh was standing there beside him, saying, "I am Yahweh, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your offspring the land that you are now sleeping on. |
| 14Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east, to the north and the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants. | 14Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out toward the west, the east, the north, and the south. All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. |
| 15What’s more, I am with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you.” | 15Look, I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you." |
| 16Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I wasn’t even aware of it!” | 16When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it." |
| 17But he was also afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! It is none other than the house of God, the very gateway to heaven!” | 17He was afraid and said, "What an awesome place this is! This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven." |
| 18The next morning Jacob got up very early. He took the stone he had rested his head against, and he set it upright as a memorial pillar. Then he poured olive oil over it. | 18Early in the morning Jacob took the stone that was near his head and set it up as a marker. He poured oil on top of it |
| 19He named that place Bethel (which means “house of God”), although it was previously called Luz. | 19and named the place Bethel, though previously the city was named Luz. |
| 20Then Jacob made this vow: “If God will indeed be with me and protect me on this journey, and if he will provide me with food and clothing, | 20Then Jacob made a vow: "If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, if He provides me with food to eat and clothing to wear, |
| 21and if I return safely to my father’s home, then the LORD will certainly be my God. | 21and if I return safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God. |
| 22And this memorial pillar I have set up will become a place for worshiping God, and I will present to God a tenth of everything he gives me.” | 22This stone that I have set up as a marker will be God's house, and I will give to You a tenth of all that You give me." |
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