BERESHITH (GENESIS) 28

Gen 28:1 And Yitsḥaq called Ya‛aqoḇ and blessed him, and commanded
him, and said to him, “Do not take a wife from the daughters of Kena‛an.
Gen 28:2 “Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethu’ĕl your mother’s
father. And take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laḇan
your mother’s brother.
Gen 28:3 “And Ĕl Shaddai bless you, and make you bear fruit and increase
you, and you shall become an assembly of peoples,
Gen 28:4 and give you the blessing of Aḇraham, to you and your seed with
you, so that you inherit the land of your sojournings, which Elohim gave to
Aḇraham.”
Gen 28:5 So Yitsḥaq sent Ya‛aqoḇ away, and he went to Paddan Aram, to
Laḇan son of Bethu’ĕl the Aramean, the brother of Riḇqah, the mother of
Ya‛aqoḇ and Ĕsaw.
Gen 28:6 And Ĕsaw saw that Yitsḥaq had blessed Ya‛aqoḇ and sent him
away to Paddan Aram to take himself a wife from there, and that as he
blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “Do not take a wife from the
daughters of Kena‛an,”
Gen 28:7 and that Ya‛aqoḇ had obeyed his father and his mother and had
gone to Paddan Aram.
Gen 28:8 So Ĕsaw saw that the daughters of Kena‛an did not please his
father Yitsḥaq,
Gen 28:9 and Ĕsaw went to Yishma‛ĕl and took Maḥalath the daughter of
Yishma‛ĕl, Aḇraham’s son, the sister of Neḇayoth, to be his wife, besides the
wives he had.
Gen 28:10 And Ya‛aqoḇ went out from Be’ĕrsheḇa and went toward Ḥaran.
Gen 28:11 And he came upon a place and stopped over for the night, for the
sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head,
and he lay down in that place to sleep.
Gen 28:12 And he dreamed and saw a ladder set up on the earth, and its top
reached to the heavens, and saw messengers of Elohim going up and coming
down on it.
Gen 28:13 And see, יהוה stood above it and said, “I am יהוה Elohim of
Aḇraham your father and the Elohim of Yitsḥaq. The land on which you are
lying, I give it to you and your seed.
Gen 28:14 “And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall
break forth to the west and to the east, to the north and the south. And all the
clans of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your seed.
Gen 28:15 “And see, I am with you and shall guard you wherever you go,
and shall bring you back to this land. For I am not going to leave you until I
have done what I have spoken to you.”
Gen 28:16 And Ya‛aqoḇ awoke from his sleep and said, “Truly, יהוה is in
this place, and I did not know it.”
Gen 28:17 And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This
is none other than the house of Elohim, and this is the gate of the heavens!”
Gen 28:18 And Ya‛aqoḇ rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he
had put at his head, set it up as a standing column, and poured oil on top of it.
Gen 28:19 And he called the name of that place Bĕyth Ĕl, however, the name
of that city had been Luz previously.
Gen 28:20 And Ya‛aqoḇ made a vow, saying, “Seeing Elohim is with me,
and has kept me in this way that I am going, and has given me bread to eat
and a garment to put on –
Gen 28:21 when I have returned to my father’s house in peace, and יהוה has
been my Elohim,
Gen 28:22 then this stone which I have set as a standing column shall be
Elohim’s house, and of all that You give me, I shall certainly give a tenth to
You.”