1. Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. Then Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.
2. Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, in Northwest Mesopotamia. Laban, your mother’s brother, lives there. Marry one of his daughters.
3. May God All-Powerful bless you and give you many children. May you become the father of many peoples.
4. May the Lord give you and your descendants the blessing of Abraham. Then you may own the land where you are now living as a stranger. This is the land God gave to Abraham.”
5. So Isaac sent Jacob to Northwest Mesopotamia. Jacob went to Laban, the brother of Rebekah. Bethuel, the Aramean, was the father of Laban and Rebekah. And Rebekah was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
6. Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Northwest Mesopotamia. Jacob went to find a wife there. Esau also learned that Isaac had commanded Jacob not to marry a Canaanite woman.
7. And Esau learned that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother. He had gone to Northwest Mesopotamia.
8. So Esau saw that his father Isaac did not want his sons to marry Canaanite women.
9. Now Esau already had wives. But he went to Ishmael son of Abraham. And he married Mahalath, Ishmael’s daughter. Mahalath was the sister of Nebaioth.
10. Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.
11. He came to a place and spent the night there because the sun had set. He found a stone there and laid his head on it to go to sleep.