2. So leave this place and go to Paddan Aram. Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father. Laban, your mother’s brother, lives there. Marry one of his daughters.
3. I pray that God All-Powerful will bless you and give you many children. I pray that you will become the father of a great nation
4. and that God will bless you and your children the same way he blessed Abraham. And I pray that you will own the land where you live. This is the land God gave to Abraham.”
5. So Isaac sent Jacob to Rebekah’s brother in Paddan Aram. Jacob went to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean. Laban was the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
6. Esau learned that his father Isaac blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. He also learned that Isaac commanded Jacob not to marry a Canaanite woman.
7. Esau learned that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and went to Paddan Aram.
8. Esau saw from this that his father did not want his sons to marry Canaanite women.
9. Esau already had two wives, but he went to Abraham’s son Ishmael and married another woman, Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael. Mahalath was Nebaioth’s sister.
10. Jacob left Beersheba and went to Haran.
11. The sun had already set when he came to a good place to spend the night. He took a rock there and laid his head on it to sleep.
12. Jacob had a dream. He dreamed there was a ladder that was on the ground and reached up into heaven. He saw the angels of God going up and down the ladder.