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GEN 28:10–29:30 ©

Jacob’s Dream at Bethel

Jacob’s Dream at Bethel

10Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran. 11He 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 place 12and 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 it 13and 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. 14Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using your name and that of your descendants. 15I 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!”

16Then Jacob woke up and thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!” 17He 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!”

18Early 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. 19He called that place Bethel, although the former name of the town was Luz. 20Then 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, 21and I return safely to my father’s home, then the Lord will become my God. 22Then 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.”

29So Jacob moved on and came to the land of the eastern people. 2He saw in the field a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now a large stone covered the mouth of the well. 3When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well’s mouth.

4Jacob asked them, “My brothers, where are you from?” They replied, “We’re from Haran.” 5So he said to them, “Do you know Laban, the grandson of Nahor?” “We know him,” they said. 6“Is he well?” Jacob asked. They replied, “He is well. Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.” 7Then Jacob said, “Since it is still the middle of the day, it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more.” 8“We can’t,” they said, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water the sheep.”

9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them. 10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban. 11Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly. 12When Jacob explained to Rachel that he was a relative of her father and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father. 13When Laban heard this news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he rushed out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban how he was related to him. 14Then Laban said to him, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” So Jacob stayed with him for a month.

15Then Laban said to Jacob, “Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be.” 16(Now Laban had two daughters; the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel. 17Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.) 18Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said, “I’ll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.” 19Laban replied, “I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.” 20So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great.

21Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. I want to have marital relations with her.” 22So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a feast. 23In the evening he brought his daughter Leah to Jacob, and Jacob had marital relations with her. 24(Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)

25In the morning Jacob discovered it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, “What in the world have you done to me! Didn’t I work for you in exchange for Rachel? Why have you tricked me?” 26“It is not our custom here,” Laban replied, “to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn. 27Complete my older daughter’s bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work.”

28Jacob did as Laban said. When Jacob completed Leah’s bridal week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. 29(Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.) 30Jacob had marital relations with Rachel as well. He loved Rachel more than Leah, so he worked for Laban for seven more years.

GEN 28:10–29:30 ©

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