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Genesis 28 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)

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1 Isaac llamó a Jacob, lo bendijo y le ordenó: «No tomes mujer de entre las cananeas.
1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
2 Ve a Padán-aram, a la casa de Betuel, padre de tu madre. Allí toma como mujer a una de las hijas de Labán, hermano de tu madre.
2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
3 Que Dios, el que gobierna sobre todo, te bendiga, te haga fecundo y multiplique tu descendencia, hasta que llegues a ser un grupo de pueblos.
3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
4 Que te dé a ti y a tu descendencia la bendición de Abraham, para que recibas como herencia la tierra donde vives como extranjero, la tierra que Dios dio a Abraham».
4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”
5 Así Isaac envió a Jacob, y él fue a Padán-aram, a casa de Labán, hijo de Betuel el arameo y hermano de Rebeca, madre de Jacob y Esaú.
5 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
6 Esaú supo que Isaac había bendecido a Jacob y lo había enviado a Padán-aram para tomar allí una mujer, y que al bendecirlo le había ordenado que no tomara mujer de entre las cananeas.
6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;”
7 También supo que Jacob había obedecido a su padre y a su madre y había ido a Padán-aram.
7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
8 Entonces Esaú comprendió que las mujeres cananeas no agradaban a su padre Isaac.
8 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.
9 Por eso fue a Ismael y tomó como mujer, además de las que ya tenía, a Mahalat, hija de Ismael y hermana de Nebaiot.
9 So Esau went to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
10 Jacob salió de Beerseba y fue hacia Harán.
10 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
11 Llegó a cierto lugar y pasó allí la noche porque el sol ya se había puesto. Tomó una piedra del lugar, la puso bajo su cabeza y se acostó a dormir.
11 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.
12 Soñó con una escalera apoyada en la tierra cuyo extremo llegaba hasta el cielo. Los ángeles de Dios subían y bajaban por ella.
12 He dreamed and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
13 El Señor estaba sobre ella y dijo: «Yo soy el Señor, el Dios de Abraham tu padre y el Dios de Isaac. La tierra donde estás acostado te la daré a ti y a tu descendencia.
13 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will give the land you lie on to you and to your offspring.
14 Tu descendencia será como el polvo de la tierra. Se extenderá al occidente, al oriente, al norte y al sur. Por medio de ti y de tu descendencia recibirán bendición todas las familias de la tierra.
14 Your offspring 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 offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.
15 Yo estoy contigo. Te cuidaré dondequiera que vayas y te traeré de regreso a esta tierra. No te dejaré hasta haber cumplido lo que te he prometido».
15 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.”
16 Jacob despertó y dijo: «En verdad el Señor está en este lugar, y yo no lo sabía».
16 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”
17 Tuvo miedo y dijo: «¡Qué impresionante es este lugar! No es otra cosa que la casa de Dios y la puerta del cielo».
17 He was afraid, and said, “How awesome this place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”
18 Jacob se levantó temprano por la mañana, tomó la piedra que había puesto bajo su cabeza, la levantó como un pilar y derramó aceite sobre ella.
18 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 its top.
19 Llamó Betel a aquel lugar, aunque antes la ciudad se llamaba Luz.
19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
20 Entonces Jacob hizo un voto: «Si Dios está conmigo, me cuida en este viaje, me da alimento para comer y ropa para vestir,
20 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,
21 y me hace volver en paz a la casa de mi padre, entonces el Señor será mi Dios.
21 so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,
22 Esta piedra que he levantado como pilar será casa de Dios, y de todo lo que me des te daré la décima parte».
22 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 a tenth to you.”

People & places in this chapter

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People

  • Jacob

    Father of the tribes

    He wrestled with God through the night and rose as Israel, father of twelve tribes.

    Cited in the guide: Genesis 25–35; 46–49

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  • Mahalath

    Ishmael's daughter; Esau's wife

    Ishmael's daughter and the sister of Nebaioth, whom Esau married in addition to his other wives; Genesis 36:3 gives her name as Basemath and says she bore Reuel.

    Cited in the guide: Genesis 28:8–9; Genesis 36:3; Genesis 36:10

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Places

  • Bethel

    Today: West Bank (central hills)

    Bethel ('house of God') is usually identified with Beitin, north of Jerusalem (location approximate). Jacob's ladder vision and Jeroboam's calf shrine are set here.

    Cited in the guide: Genesis 28:19; Genesis 12:8; 1 Kings 12:29

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  • Haran

    Today: Southern Turkey (Upper Mesopotamia)

    A caravan city in Upper Mesopotamia and the family's waypoint between Ur and Canaan. Abraham departed from here for Canaan; Jacob later sojourned with Laban nearby.

    Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:31; Genesis 12:4; Genesis 28:10

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Cross references (21)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Genesis 24:3; Genesis 28:3–4; Genesis 27:46; Genesis 6:2; 2 Corinthians 6:14–16
  2. 2 Genesis 25:20; Hosea 12:12; Genesis 24:50; Genesis 22:20–23; Genesis 24:15–24
  3. 3 Genesis 48:3; Genesis 35:11; Genesis 17:1–6; Genesis 1:28; Genesis 22:17–18
  4. 4 Galatians 3:14; Genesis 12:7; Ephesians 1:3; Genesis 17:6–8; Genesis 12:1–3
  5. 6 Genesis 28:1; Genesis 27:33
  6. 7 Ephesians 6:3; Exodus 20:12; Proverbs 30:17; Leviticus 19:3; Genesis 27:43
  7. 8 Genesis 24:3; Genesis 26:34–35; Genesis 28:1; 1 Samuel 8:6
  8. 9 Genesis 36:3; Genesis 25:13–17; Genesis 26:34; Genesis 36:13; Genesis 36:18
  9. 10 Acts 7:2; Genesis 32:10; Genesis 11:31; Hosea 12:12
  10. 11 Genesis 28:18; Matthew 8:20; 2 Corinthians 1:5; Genesis 31:46
  11. 12 John 1:51; Genesis 32:1–2; Numbers 12:6; Job 33:15–16; Genesis 15:1
  12. 13 Genesis 13:15; Genesis 35:12; Genesis 48:3; Genesis 26:24; Genesis 35:1
  13. 14 Genesis 12:3; Genesis 18:18; Genesis 22:18; Genesis 26:4; Genesis 13:16
  14. 15 Joshua 1:5; Isaiah 41:10; Jeremiah 1:19; Deuteronomy 31:6; Genesis 26:24
  15. 16 Joshua 5:15; Job 9:11; Exodus 3:5; Exodus 15:11; Job 33:14
  16. 17 1 Timothy 3:15; Genesis 35:1–13; Ecclesiastes 5:1; Exodus 3:6; Genesis 28:22
  17. 18 Genesis 35:14; Genesis 31:13; Genesis 31:45; Leviticus 8:10–12; Genesis 35:20
  18. 19 Genesis 48:3; Hosea 12:4–5; Genesis 35:1; Hosea 4:15; Judges 1:22–26
  19. 20 1 Timothy 6:8; 2 Samuel 15:8; Genesis 31:13; John 1:16; Psalm 66:13
  20. 21 Deuteronomy 26:17; Judges 11:31; Exodus 15:2; 2 Samuel 15:8; 2 Samuel 19:24
  21. 22 Genesis 35:7; Genesis 14:20; Deuteronomy 14:22–23; Leviticus 27:30–33; Genesis 35:1

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

Articles and answers on this site that cite Genesis 28.

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 28:1–4 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVI, Chapters 37–38)

    … thee, and increase thee, and multiply thee; and thou shalt be an assembly of peoples; and give to thee the blessing of Abraham thy father, and to thy seed after thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou dwellest, which God gave unto Abraham." Now we understand here that the seed of Jacob is separated from Isaac's other seed …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  2. Quotes verse 28:20 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XXI)

    Dost thou not hear him praying and saying, "If the Lord give me bread to eat and raiment to put on?" which was not the part of one taking thought, but of one seeking all of God.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  3. Quotes verse 28:16 Basil of Caesarea, On the Holy Spirit (Chapters XXV–XXVI)

    From the Lord himself in the words "The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth." This place Jacob saw and said "The Lord is in this place." It follows that the Spirit is verily the place of the saints and the saint is the proper place for the Spirit, offering himself as he does for the …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)

  4. Quotes verse 28:11 Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (Sermon LXXII)

    I mean in Genesis. When Jacob slept at a certain place, he put a stone at his head; and in his sleep he saw a ladder reaching from earth even unto heaven; and the Lord was resting upon it; and Angels were ascending and descending by it.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)

  5. Quotes verse 28:12–18 Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John (Chapter I — 32, 33)

    Jacob saw a ladder in a dream; and on a ladder he saw angels ascending and descending: and he anointed the stone which he had placed at his head. You have heard that the Messias is Christ; you have heard that Christ is the Anointed.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)