Yitzchok called Yaakov and blessed him. He commanded him and said to him, Do not marry a woman of the daughters of Canaan.

Set out and go to Padan Aram, to the house of Besueil, your mother’s father, and marry one of the daughters of Lavan, your mother’s brother.

May the Almighty, Shaddai, bless you, make you fruitful and multiply you. May you become an assembly of peoples [tribes].

May He give you the blessing of Avraham, to you and to your descendants with you, that you may inherit the land of your dwelling which God gave to Avraham.

Yitzchok sent Yaakov on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Lavan, son of Besueil the Aramean, the brother of Rivkah, mother of Yaakov and Eisov.

Eisov saw that Yitzchok blessed Yaakov, and sent him to Paddan Aram, to find a wife there; and as he blessed him, he commanded him saying, Do not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

And Yaakov listened to [accepted] his father and mother, and went to Paddan Aram.

Eisov [thus] realized that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the eyes of Yitzchok, his father.

Eisov [then] went to Yishmael, and took Mochalas, the daughter of Yishmael, the son of Avraham and sister of Nevayos, in addition to his other wives, for a wife.

Yaakov left Beer Sheva and went toward Charan.

He reached the place and spent the night there because the sun had set. He took some of the stones of that place, and arranged them around his head, and lay down [to sleep] in that place.

He dreamed, and behold a ladder was set up on [planted in] the earth and the top of it reached toward heaven; and behold angels of Elohim were ascending and descending on it.

And behold [the Glory of] Adonoy stood over him, and said, I am Adonoy, God of Avraham, your father, and God of Yitzchok. The land upon which you are lying, I will give to you and to your descendants.

Your descendants shall be [many] as the dust of the earth. You shall spread [be strong] to the west, to the east, to the north and to the south. Through [Because of] you shall be blessed all the families of the earth, and through [because of] your descendants.

Behold, I am with you [My Word is your support], and I will guard you wherever [every place] you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not forsake you until I have done that which I have spoken for you.

Yaakov awoke from his sleep, and said, In truth, [the Glory of] Adonoy is [dwells] in this place, and I did not know it [would not have known it].

He was afraid and said, How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of Elohim [not a regular place but a place where it is the will of Elohim to receive prayers], and this is the gate of [opposite] heaven.

Yaakov rose early in the morning and took the stone that he had placed at his head; and he set it as a monument, and poured oil on its top.

He named that place Beis Eil, but Luz was the original name of the city.

Yaakov made a vow, saying, If [the Word of] Elohim will be with me [my support], and guards me on this path that I am going, and gives me bread to eat and clothing to wear;

And if I return in peace to my father’s house, and [the Word of] Adonoy will be my God;

[Then] this stone which I have set [as] a monument will become a House of God [place where I will worship upon it before God], and of all that You give, I will surely give a tenth to [before] You.