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1Isaac called Jacob, blessed him and gave him instructions. He said, 'You must not marry one of these women of Canaan. 2Go at once to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, in Paddan-aram, and there find a wife, one of the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother. 3God Almighty bless you, make you fruitful and increase your descendants until they become a host of nations. 4May he bestow on you and your offspring the blessing of Abraham, and may you thus possess the country where you are now living, the land which God gave to Abraham!' 5So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, and brother to Rebecca the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Esau takes another wife.  Gn.28.6-9

6Esau discovered that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing and had sent him away to Paddan-aram to find a wife there; 7and that when he blessed him he had forbidden him to marry a woman of Canaan, and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram. 8Then Esau, seeing that his father disliked the women of Canaan, 9went to Ishmael, and, in addition to his other wives, he married Mahalath sister. of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael.

JACOB: Bethel - Jacob's dream.  Gn.28.10-22

10Jacob set out from Beersheba and went on his way towards Harran. 11He came to a certain place and stopped there for the night, because the sun had set; and, taking one of the stones there, he made it a pillow for his head and lay down to sleep. 12He dreamt that he saw a ladder, which rested on the ground with its top reaching to heaven, and angels of God were going up and down upon it. 13The LORD was standing beside him Or on it or by it and said, 'I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. This land on which you are lying I will give to you and your descendants. 14They shall be countless as the dust upon the earth, and you shall spread far and wide, to north and south, to east and west. All the families of the earth shall pray to be blessed as you and your descendants are blessed. 15I will be with you, and I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done all that I have promised.' 16Jacob woke from his sleep and said, 'Truly the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.' 17Then he was afraid and said, 'How fearsome is this place! This is no other than the house of God, this is the gate of heaven.' 18Jacob rose early in the morning, took the stone on which he had laid his head, set it up as a sacred pillar and poured oil on the top of it. 19He named that place Beth-El That is House of God; but the earlier name of the city was Luz.

20Thereupon Jacob made this vow: 'If God will be with me, if he will protect me on my journey and give me food to eat and clothes to wear, 21and I come back safely to my father's house, then the LORD shall be my God, 22and this stone which I have set up as a sacred pillar shall be a house of God. And of all that thou givest me, I will without fail allot a tenth part to thee.'

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