8 Esau then understood that his father Isaac did not approve of Canaanite women.
9 So he went to Ishmael son of Abraham and married his daughter Mahalath, who was the sister of Nebaioth.
10 Jacob left Beersheba and started towards Haran.
11 At sunset he came to a holy place and camped there. He lay down to sleep, resting his head on a stone.
12 He dreamt that he saw a stairway reaching from earth to heaven, with angels going up and coming down on it.
13 And there was the Lord standing beside him. “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham and Isaac,” he said. “I will give to you and to your descendants this land on which you are lying.
14 They will be as numerous as the specks of dust on the earth. They will extend their territory in all directions, and through you and your descendants I will bless all the nations.