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Genèse 27:43
Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Harran. (niv)
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Genèse 28:1-22
So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him:“ Do not marry a Canaanite woman.Go at once to Paddan Aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him,“ Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran.When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.There above it stood the Lord, and he said:“ I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought,“ Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”He was afraid and said,“ How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it.He called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz.Then Jacob made a vow, saying,“ If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wearso that I return safely to my father’s household, then the Lord will be my Godand this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.” (niv)
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Genèse 29:18-28
Jacob was in love with Rachel and said,“ I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”Laban said,“ It’s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.”So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.Then Jacob said to Laban,“ Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.”So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast.But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob made love to her.And Laban gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter as her attendant.When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban,“ What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn’t I? Why have you deceived me?”Laban replied,“ It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one.Finish this daughter’s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.”And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. (niv)
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Genèse 31:41
It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times. (niv)
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Deutéronome 26:5
Then you shall declare before the Lord your God:“ My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous. (niv)
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Genèse 32:27-28
The man asked him,“ What is your name?”“ Jacob,” he answered.Then the man said,“ Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.” (niv)
