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28. So Issac called for Jacob and blessed him and commanded him: 'Do not marry a Canaanite woman. Go at once to Padan Haram, to the house of your mother's father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughter of Laban, your mother's brother. May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and inclease your numbers until you become a community of peoples. May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham,  so that you may take possession of the land where you now live as an alien, the land God gave to Abraham.'' Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Padan Haram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

  Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Padan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, "Do not marry a Canaanites woman," and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Padan Aram. Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac; so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.  

   Jacob's dreamed at Bethel   

   Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran. When he reached certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his hesd and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with it's top reaching to heaven, and angel's of God were ascending and descending on it. There above it stood the Lord, and he said: "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 are living. your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out the west and the east, to the north and the south. All people on the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. I am with you and will watch over you where ever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.  

  When Jacob awake from his sleep, he thought, 'Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it." 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." Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on the top of it. He called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz. Then Jacob made a bow, saying, "If  God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear so that I return safely to my father' house, then the Lord will be my God and this stone that I have set up as pilar will be God's house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.