| King James Bible | International Standard Version |
| 1And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. | 1Later, Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, instructing him, "Don't marry a wife from the local Canaanite women. |
| 2Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. | 2Instead, get up, travel to Paddan-aram, and visit the household of Bethuel, your mother's father. Marry one of Laban's daughters, since he's your mother's brother. |
| 3And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; | 3May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful so that your descendants become a whole group of people. |
| 4And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham. | 4May he give you and your descendants the blessings that he gave Abraham. May you possess the land where you have lived that God gave to Abraham." |
| 5And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. | 5So Isaac sent Jacob off toward Paddan-aram to visit Bethuel's son Laban, the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. |
| 6When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan; | 6Esau noticed that after Isaac had blessed Jacob as he was sending him off to Paddan-aram to marry a wife from there, he had instructed Jacob, "Don't marry a Canaanite woman." |
| 7And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram; | 7After Jacob had obeyed his father and mother's instructions to set out for Paddan-aram, |
| 8And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; | 8Esau realized that Canaan women didn't please his father Isaac, |
| 9Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife. | 9so he went to Abraham's son Ishmael and married Ishmael's daughter Mahalath, who was the sister of Nebaioth. |
| 10And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. | 10Meanwhile, Jacob had left Beer-sheba and was on his way to Haran. |
| 11And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. | 11He reached a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun was setting. He found a stone there, used it for a pillow, and slept there for the night, |
| 12And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. | 12when he had a dream! He saw a raised highway that had been built with its ending point on earth and its beginning point in heaven. God's angels were ascending and descending on it. |
| 13And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; | 13And there was the LORD, standing above it and telling Jacob, "I am the LORD God of your grandfather Abraham. I'm Isaac's God, too. I'm giving you and your descendants the ground on which you're sleeping. |
| 14And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. | 14Your descendants are going to become like the dust of the earth and spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants. |
| 15And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. | 15Now pay attention! I'm here with you, and I'm going to be watching over you wherever you go. I'm going to bring you back to this land, because I won't ever leave you until I've accomplished what I've promised about you." |
| 16And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. | 16Then Jacob woke up during the night and told himself, "Surely, the LORD is in this place and I never knew it!" |
| 17And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. | 17In mounting terror, he cried out, "How scary this place is! This is nothing less than God's house and the gateway to heaven!" |
| 18And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. | 18When Jacob got up early the next morning, he took the stone that he had used for his pillow, set it up as a pillar, drenched it with oil, |
| 19And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first. | 19and named the place Beth-el, although previously the city had been named Luz. |
| 20And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, | 20Then he made this solemn vow: "If God remains with me, watches over me throughout this journey that I'm taking, gives me food to eat and clothes to wear, |
| 21So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: | 21and returns me safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God, |
| 22And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee. | 22this stone that I've erected in the form of a pillar will be God's house, and I'll give you a tenth of everything that you give to me." |
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