Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife. 028:010 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. 028:011 He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. 028:012 He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 028:013 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed. 028:014 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed. 028:015 Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you." 028:016 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn't know it." 028:017 He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven." 028:018 Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it. 028:019 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first. 028:020 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 clothing to put on, 028:021 so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God, 028:022 then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you." 029:001 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east. 029:002 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was large. 029:003 There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place. 029:004 Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" They said, "We are from Haran." 029:005 He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him." 029:006 He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well.