Genesis 28
1 and to call: call to Isaac to(wards) Jacob and to bless [obj] him and to command him and to say to/for him not to take: marry woman: wife from daughter Canaan
Then Isaac summoned Jacob, and gave him a blessing. He told him, “Do not marry a woman of the Canaan people-group.
2 to arise: rise to go: went Paddan [to] (Paddan)-aram house: household [to] Bethuel father mother your and to take: take to/for you from there woman: wife from daughter Laban brother: male-sibling mother your
Instead, go right away to Paddan-Aram [in northwest Mesopotamia], to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Ask one of the daughters of your mother’s brother Laban to marry you.
3 and God Almighty to bless [obj] you and be fruitful you and to multiply you and to be to/for assembly people
I will pray that God Almighty will bless you, and enable you to [get married and] have many descendants, in order that they will become many people-groups.
4 and to give: give to/for you [obj] blessing Abraham to/for you and to/for seed: children your with you to/for to possess: take you [obj] land: country/planet sojourning your which to give: give God to/for Abraham
I also will pray that he will bless you and your descendants by enabling you to possess/seize the land in which you are now living as a foreigner, the land that God promised to give to [my father] Abraham and his descendants.”
5 and to send: depart Isaac [obj] Jacob and to go: went Paddan [to] (Paddan)-aram to(wards) Laban son: child Bethuel [the] Aramean brother: male-sibling Rebekah mother Jacob and Esau
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-Aram, to live with Rebekah’s brother Laban, the son of Bethuel, who belonged to the Aram people-group.
6 and to see: see Esau for to bless Isaac [obj] Jacob and to send: depart [obj] him Paddan [to] (Paddan)-aram to/for to take: marry to/for him from there woman: wife in/on/with to bless he [obj] him and to command upon him to/for to say not to take: marry woman: wife from daughter Canaan
Esau found out that his father Isaac had blessed Jacob and then sent him to Paddan-Aram. He also found out that when he blessed Isaac, he told him, “Do not marry a woman of the Canaan people-group,”
7 and to hear: obey Jacob to(wards) father his and to(wards) mother his and to go: went Paddan [to] (Paddan)-aram
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother, and had gone to Paddan-Aram.
8 and to see: see Esau for bad: evil daughter Canaan in/on/with eye: appearance Isaac father his
Esau also realized that his father Isaac did not approve of women from the Canaan people-group.
9 and to go: went Esau to(wards) Ishmael and to take: marry [obj] Mahalath daughter Ishmael son: child Abraham sister Nebaioth upon woman: wife his to/for him to/for woman: wife
Because of that, Esau went to see his uncle Ishmael, and married Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael. Mahalath was the sister of Nabaioth and the granddaughter of Abraham.
10 and to come out: extends Jacob from Beersheba Beersheba and to go: went Haran [to]
Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and started walking along the road to Haran.
11 and to fall on in/on/with place and to lodge there for to come (in): (sun)set [the] sun and to take: take from stone [the] place and to set: put head his and to lie down: sleep in/on/with place [the] he/she/it
When he arrived at a certain place, he stopped there, because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones there and put it under his head to use as a pillow. Then he lay down and slept there.
12 and to dream and behold ladder to stand land: country/planet [to] and head: top his to touch [the] heaven [to] and behold messenger: angel God to ascend: rise and to go down in/on/with him
While he was sleeping, he had a dream, in which he [was surprised to] see a stairway. The bottom of the stairway was on the earth and the top was in the sky. Jacob also saw that God’s angels were going up and down the stairway.
13 and behold LORD to stand upon him and to say I LORD God Abraham father your and God Isaac [the] land: country/planet which you(m. s.) to lie down: lay down upon her to/for you to give: give her and to/for seed: children your
And he [was surprised to] see Yahweh standing at the top of the stairway, saying “I am Yahweh God, whom your grandfather Abraham worshiped, and whom Isaac worships. I will give to you and to your descendants the land on which you are lying.
14 and to be seed: children your like/as dust [the] land: soil and to break through sea: west [to] and east [to] and north [to] and south [to] and to bless in/on/with you all family [the] land: soil and in/on/with seed: children your
Your descendants will be as numerous as the particles of dirt that are on the earth, and their territory will be very large. It will extend in all directions, to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south. And people of all people-groups on earth will receive blessings because of [what happens to] you and to your descendants.
15 and behold I with you and to keep: guard you in/on/with all which to go: went and to return: return you to(wards) [the] land: soil [the] this for not to leave: forsake you till which if: until to make: do [obj] which to speak: promise to/for you
I will help you and protect you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you; I will continue to do for you all that I have promised to do.”
16 and to awake Jacob from sleep his and to say surely there LORD in/on/with place [the] this and I not to know
[During the night], when Jacob woke up from sleeping, he thought, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and until now I was not aware of it!”
17 and to fear: revere and to say what? to fear: revere [the] place [the] this nothing this that if: except if: except house: home God and this gate [the] heaven
He was afraid, and he said, “This place is very awesome! This is surely the place where God lives, and this is the entrance to heaven!”
18 and to rise Jacob in/on/with morning and to take: take [obj] [the] stone which to set: put head his and to set: make [obj] her pillar and to pour: pour oil upon head: top her
In the morning Jacob got up and took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up on its end to show that the place was a holy place. He poured some olive oil on top of the stone [to dedicate it to God].
19 and to call: call by [obj] name [the] place [the] he/she/it Bethel Bethel and but Luz name [the] city to/for first
He named that place Bethel, [which means ‘house of God’.] Previously its name was Luz.
20 and to vow Jacob vow to/for to say if to be God with me me and to keep: guard me in/on/with way: journey [the] this which I to go: went and to give: give to/for me food: bread to/for to eat and garment to/for to clothe
Jacob solemnly promised God, saying, “God, if you will help me and protect me while I am taking this journey, and if you give me enough food to eat and clothes to wear,
21 and to return: return in/on/with peace to(wards) house: home father my and to be LORD to/for me to/for God
in order that I can later return safely to my father’s house, then you, Yahweh, will be the God that I will worship.
22 and [the] stone [the] this which to set: make pillar to be house: home God and all which to give: give to/for me to tithe to tithe him to/for you
This stone that I have set up will mark the place where people can worship you. And I will give back to you a tenth of everything that you give to me.”
