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GenèseChapitre 28

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Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and charged him: "Do not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.
Get up and go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take a wife from there, from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
May God Almighty bless you, make you fruitful, and multiply you, so that you become a company of peoples.
May he give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, so that you may take possession of the land where you now live as a stranger, the land God gave to Abraham."
So Isaac sent Jacob off, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he charged him, "Do not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,"
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
Esau then realized how displeasing the daughters of Canaan were to his father Isaac,
so he went to Ishmael and, in addition to the wives he had, married Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth.
Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.
He came to a certain place and stayed the night there, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
And he dreamed: there was a stairway set on the earth, its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and coming down on it.
And there was the LORD, standing above it,* saying: "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you are lying I will give to you and to your offspring. [*Footnote: Or "standing beside him."]
Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and the east, to the north and the south. In you and in your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.
And look, I am with you. I will keep you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
He was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is nothing less than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven."
Early in the morning Jacob took the stone he had put under his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it.
He named that place Bethel,* though the city had earlier been called Luz. [*Footnote: Bethel means "house of God."]
Then Jacob made a vow: "If God will be with me and keep me on this journey I am making, and give me bread to eat and clothes to wear,
and I return safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God,
and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's house; and of all that you give me I will surely give you a tenth."
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