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Genesis 28 Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)

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1 Entonces Isaac llamó a Jacob, lo bendijo y le ordenó: ―No te cases con ninguna mujer de aquí de Canaán.
1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
2 Debes ir inmediatamente a Padán Aram, a la casa de tu abuelo Betuel, el padre de tu madre, para que te cases con alguna de las hijas de tu tío Labán.
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 el Dios Todopoderoso te bendiga y te dé muchos hijos; que llegues a ser una nación compuesta de muchas tribus.
3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
4 Que Dios te dé a ti, y también a tu descendencia, las grandes bendiciones prometidas a Abraham. Que te dé la posesión de esta tierra en que ahora somos extranjeros, porque Dios se la prometió 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 De esta manera despidió Isaac a Jacob y lo envió a Padán Aram, donde vivía Labán, el hijo de Betuel, el arameo, y hermano de Rebeca, la 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 su padre había bendecido a Jacob y que lo había enviado a Padán Aram, para que se casara allá. También se enteró de que Isaac, al bendecir a Jacob, le prohibió que se casara con una mujer cananea.
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 Y que Jacob, efectivamente, obedeció a su padre y a su madre, y se fue para Padán Aram.
7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
8 Por eso, Esaú comprendió que las mujeres de Canaán no eran del agrado de Isaac, su padre.
8 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.
9 Entonces Esaú fue a la región donde vivía Ismael, el hijo de Abraham. Allí Esaú, aunque ya tenía otras esposas, se casó con Majalat, que era hija de Ismael y hermana de Nebayot.
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 Berseba y viajó hacia Jarán.
10 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
11 Llegó hasta cierto lugar y se quedó allí para pasar la noche, pues ya el sol se había ocultado. Tomó una piedra y la puso como almohada, 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 Mientras dormía soñó que había una escalera desde la tierra hasta el cielo, y vio ángeles de Dios que 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 En el sueño también vio que el Señor estaba parado junto a él y le decía: «Yo soy el Señor, el Dios de tu abuelo Abraham y de tu padre Isaac. A ti y a tus descendientes les voy a dar esta tierra en la que estás acostado.
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 Tus descendientes serán tantos como el polvo de la tierra. Llenarán la tierra de este a oeste y de norte a sur. Todas las naciones de la tierra serán bendecidas por medio de ti y de tu descendencia.
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 Además, estaré contigo y te protegeré dondequiera que vayas, y te traeré de nuevo sano y salvo a esta tierra. ¡Jamás te abandonaré sin haberte cumplido mis promesas!».
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 Cuando Jacob despertó de su sueño tuvo mucho miedo, y pensó: «¡Sin duda alguna el Señor está en este lugar, y yo no lo sabía! ¡Este lugar es asombroso! ¡Es nada menos que la casa de Dios y la puerta del cielo!».
16 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”
17 Not in this translation
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 Al día siguiente se levantó muy de mañana, tomó la piedra que había usado como almohada, la paró como si fuera una columna, para que sirviera de señal de lo ocurrido. Luego derramó aceite de oliva 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 En ese lugar había una ciudad que se llamaba Luz, pero Jacob le cambió el nombre y la llamó Betel (Casa de Dios).
19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
20 Jacob, entonces, hizo este voto: «Si Dios me ayuda y me protege en este viaje, me da ropa y comida, y me permite regresar sano y salvo a la casa de mi padre, el Señor será mi Dios. Y esta piedra que he levantado para señal, será lugar de adoración. Además, de todo lo que me dé, le entregaré el diezmo».
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 Not in this translation
21 so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,
22 Not in this translation
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 (18)

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. 18 Genesis 35:14; Genesis 31:13; Genesis 31:45; Leviticus 8:10–12; Genesis 35:20
  17. 19 Genesis 48:3; Hosea 12:4–5; Genesis 35:1; Hosea 4:15; Judges 1:22–26
  18. 20 1 Timothy 6:8; 2 Samuel 15:8; Genesis 31:13; John 1:16; Psalm 66:13

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)