Genesis 28 (NET)

Genesis 28:1¹So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 24:3Gen 28:3-4Gen 27:462 Cor 6:14-16Gen 24:37Gen 26:34-35Gen 6:2Deut 33:1Exod 34:15-16Gen 27:27-33

Genesis 28:2²Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 25:20Hos 12:12Gen 22:20-23Gen 24:15-24Gen 24:29Gen 24:50Gen 28:5Gen 32:10Gen 35:9Gen 46:15

Genesis 28:3³May the Sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 48:3Gen 35:11Gen 1:28Gen 17:1-6Gen 22:17-18Gen 13:16Gen 41:52Gen 43:14Gen 9:1Gen 24:60

Genesis 28:4⁴May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:14Gen 12:7Eph 1:3Gen 17:6-8Gal 3:8Gen 12:1-3Gen 13:14-17Gen 15:18-21Gen 15:5-7Gen 22:17-18

Genesis 28:5⁵So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 28:6⁶Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 27:33Gen 28:1

Genesis 28:7⁷Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 3:20Eph 6:1Eph 6:3Exod 20:12Gen 27:43Lev 19:3Prov 1:8Prov 30:17

Genesis 28:8⁸Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 24:3Gen 26:34-351 Sam 8:6Gen 28:1

Genesis 28:9⁹So Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, along with the wives he already had.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 36:3Gen 25:13-17Gen 26:34Gen 36:13Gen 36:18

Genesis 28:10¹⁰Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 7:2Gen 11:31Gen 32:10Hos 12:12

Genesis 28:11¹¹He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that placeCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 28:18Matt 8:202 Cor 1:5Gen 31:46

Genesis 28:12¹²and had a dream. He saw a stairway erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down itCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 1:51Gen 32:1-2Num 12:6Job 33:15-16Gen 15:12 Tim 4:16-17Gen 37:5-11Gen 15:12Heb 1:14Dan 7:1

Genesis 28:13¹³and the Lord stood at its top. He said, “I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 13:15Gen 35:12Gen 48:3Gen 26:24Gen 35:1Gen 12:7Exod 3:6Gen 46:3Heb 11:16Matt 22:32

Genesis 28:14¹⁴Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. And so all the families of the earth may receive blessings through you and through your descendants.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 12:3Gen 18:18Gen 22:18Acts 3:25Gen 13:16Gen 26:4Gal 3:8Gen 13:14Deut 12:20Gal 3:16

Genesis 28:15¹⁵I am with you! I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 1:5Isa 41:10Jer 1:19Deut 31:6Gen 26:24Gen 31:3Heb 13:5-6Ps 121:5-8Gen 26:3Isa 43:2

Genesis 28:16¹⁶Then Jacob woke up and thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 5:15Exod 15:11Exod 3:51 Sam 3:4-7Job 33:14Job 9:11Isa 8:13Ps 68:35

Genesis 28:17¹⁷He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 3:15Gen 35:1-13Eccl 5:1Exod 3:62 Chr 5:14Gen 28:22Judg 13:22Luke 2:91 Pet 4:17Rev 1:17

Genesis 28:18¹⁸Early in the morning Jacob took the stone he had placed near his head and set it up as a sacred stone. Then he poured oil on top of it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 35:14Gen 31:13Gen 31:45Lev 8:10-12Gen 22:3Gen 35:20Num 7:11 Sam 7:122 Sam 18:18Eccl 9:10

Genesis 28:19¹⁹He called that place Bethel, although the former name of the town was Luz.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 35:1Gen 48:3Hos 12:4-51 Kgs 12:29Gen 12:8Hos 4:15Judg 1:22-26

Genesis 28:20²⁰Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God is with me and protects me on this journey I am taking and gives me food to eat and clothing to wear,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 6:82 Sam 15:8Gen 31:13John 1:16Ps 66:13Acts 23:12-15Judg 11:30-31Ps 116:14Ps 116:18Ps 119:106

Genesis 28:21²¹and I return safely to my father’s home, then the Lord will become my God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 26:17Judg 11:31Exod 15:22 Sam 15:82 Sam 19:242 Sam 19:302 Kgs 5:17

Genesis 28:22²²Then this stone that I have set up as a sacred stone will be the house of God, and I will surely give you back a tenth of everything you give me.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 35:7Gen 14:20Deut 14:22-23Lev 27:30-33Gen 35:1Gen 12:8Gen 28:17Gen 33:20Gen 35:14-15Gen 21:33