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Genesis Chapter 28

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In Genesis 28 Abraham travels to Hebron and meets his son Isaac, who is born. He makes a covenant with God, placing a stone as a witness, and promises to give Isaac the land of Canaan. The chapter highlights God’s promise of inheritance and the solemn nature of covenants.

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(1) And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
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Genesis 28:3Genesis 28:4Genesis 27:4Genesis 27:27Genesis 27:28Genesis 27:29Genesis 27:30Genesis 27:31Genesis 27:32Genesis 27:33Genesis 48:15Genesis 49:28

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Genesis 28:6Genesis 27:46Genesis 25:11Genesis 27:33Genesis 28:8Genesis 31:43

(2) Arise, 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.
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Hosea 12:12Genesis 28:5Genesis 22:20Genesis 22:21Genesis 22:22Genesis 22:23Genesis 24:10Genesis 24:15Genesis 24:16Genesis 24:17Genesis 24:18Genesis 24:19

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Genesis 29:10Genesis 31:43Leviticus 18:13Judges 9:1Genesis 28:6Genesis 27:46

(3) And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
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Genesis 17:1Genesis 17:2Genesis 17:3Genesis 17:4Genesis 17:5Genesis 17:6Genesis 22:17Genesis 22:18Genesis 35:11Genesis 43:14Genesis 48:3Exodus 6:3

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Deuteronomy 30:20Genesis 1:22Genesis 9:7Genesis 35:11Genesis 48:4Deuteronomy 7:13

(4) And 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.
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Genesis 12:1Genesis 12:2Genesis 12:3Genesis 12:7Genesis 15:5Genesis 15:6Genesis 15:7Genesis 17:6Genesis 17:7Genesis 17:8Genesis 22:17Genesis 22:18

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Deuteronomy 30:20Exodus 32:13Jeremiah 33:26Romans 9:7Galatians 3:16Genesis 18:33

(5) And 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.
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Genesis 25:20Genesis 24:67Luke 12:53Genesis 28:2Genesis 24:29Genesis 29:10

(6) When 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;
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Genesis 27:33

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Genesis 27:33Genesis 28:1Genesis 14:19Genesis 25:11Genesis 27:27Genesis 27:41

(7) And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
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Genesis 27:43Exodus 20:12Leviticus 19:3Proverbs 1:8Proverbs 30:17Ephesians 6:1Ephesians 6:3Colossians 3:20

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Luke 12:53

(8) And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
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Genesis 28:1Genesis 24:3Genesis 26:34Genesis 26:35I Samuel 8:6

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Genesis 27:46Genesis 28:6Genesis 28:1Genesis 31:43Genesis 36:2Genesis 36:6

(9) Then 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.
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Genesis 25:13Genesis 25:14Genesis 25:15Genesis 25:16Genesis 25:17Genesis 36:3Genesis 36:13Genesis 36:18

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Genesis 36:2Genesis 25:13Luke 12:53Jeremiah 41:9Jeremiah 41:10II Chronicles 11:21

(10) And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
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Genesis 11:31Genesis 32:10Hosea 12:12Acts 7:2Acts 25:13

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I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17Zechariah 14:4Deuteronomy 28:54

(11) And 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.
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Genesis 28:18Genesis 31:46Matthew 8:20II Corinthians 1:5

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(12) And 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.
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Genesis 15:1Genesis 15:12Genesis 20:3Genesis 20:6Genesis 20:7Genesis 37:5Genesis 37:6Genesis 37:7Genesis 37:8Genesis 37:9Genesis 37:10Genesis 37:11

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(13) And, 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;
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Genesis 35:1Genesis 35:6Genesis 35:7Genesis 48:3Genesis 15:1Genesis 17:6Genesis 17:7Genesis 26:24Genesis 31:42Genesis 32:9Genesis 46:3Exodus 3:6

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Jeremiah 33:26Exodus 32:13Romans 9:7Nehemiah 12:39John 3:31Genesis 21:12

(14) And 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.
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Genesis 13:16Genesis 32:12Genesis 35:11Genesis 35:12Numbers 23:10Acts 3:25Revelation 7:4Revelation 7:9Genesis 13:14Deuteronomy 12:20Matthew 8:11Genesis 12:3

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Genesis 26:4Genesis 13:16Jeremiah 33:26Isaiah 61:9Zechariah 14:4Genesis 1:11

(15) And, 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.
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Genesis 28:20Genesis 28:21Genesis 26:24Genesis 31:3Genesis 32:9Genesis 39:2Genesis 39:21Genesis 46:4Exodus 3:12Judges 6:16Psalms 46:7Psalms 46:11

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Ruth 1:16Jeremiah 45:5John 13:36

(16) And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
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Exodus 3:5Exodus 15:11Joshua 5:15I Samuel 3:4I Samuel 3:5I Samuel 3:6I Samuel 3:7Job 9:11Job 33:14Psalms 68:35Isaiah 8:13

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Jeremiah 44:25

(17) And 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.
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Exodus 3:6Judges 13:22Matthew 17:6Luke 2:9Luke 8:35Revelation 1:17Genesis 28:22Genesis 35:1Genesis 35:2Genesis 35:3Genesis 35:4Genesis 35:5

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6

(18) And 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.
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Genesis 22:3Psalms 119:60Ecclesiastes 9:10Genesis 31:13Genesis 31:45Genesis 35:14Genesis 35:20Joshua 24:26Joshua 24:27I Samuel 7:12II Samuel 18:18Isaiah 19:19

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Genesis 35:14Exodus 34:4Genesis 22:3Numbers 14:40I Samuel 29:10Genesis 20:8

(19) And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
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Genesis 12:8Genesis 35:1Genesis 48:3Judges 1:22Judges 1:23Judges 1:24Judges 1:25Judges 1:26I Kings 12:29Hosea 4:15Hosea 12:4Hosea 12:5

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Joshua 18:13

(20) And 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,
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Genesis 31:13Leviticus 27:1Leviticus 27:2Leviticus 27:3Leviticus 27:4Leviticus 27:5Leviticus 27:6Leviticus 27:7Leviticus 27:8Leviticus 27:9Leviticus 27:10Leviticus 27:11

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Numbers 6:21

(21) So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:
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Judges 11:31II Samuel 19:24II Samuel 19:30Exodus 15:2Deuteronomy 26:17II Samuel 15:8II Kings 5:17

(22) And 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.
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Genesis 28:17Genesis 12:8Genesis 21:33Genesis 33:20Genesis 35:1Genesis 35:15Genesis 14:20Leviticus 27:30Leviticus 27:31Leviticus 27:32Leviticus 27:33Deuteronomy 14:22

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Genesis 35:14Isaiah 28:16Jeremiah 44:25

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