A reading from the book of Genesis.

Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and directed him,

You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.

Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father,

and take as your wife from there, one of the daughters of Laban, your mother's

brother. God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful and multiply you that you may become

a company of peoples. May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you,

that you may take possession of the

land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham. Thus Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to

Padan Aram, to Laban, the son of Bethlehel, the Aramean, the brother of Rebecca, Jacob's, and Esau's mother.

Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Padan Aram to take a wife from there.

And that as he blessed him he directed him, you must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.

And that Jacob had obeyed his father

and his mother and gone to Padan Aram.

So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father, Esau went to

Ishmael, and took as his wife, besides the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaoth.

Jacob left Birshiba and went toward Haran.

And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night because the sun had set.

Taking one of the stones of the place,

he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep.

And he dreamed.

And behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth,

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