Isaac blesses Jacob again and forbids him from marrying a Canaanite woman, but to take a daughter of Laban, his mother's brother (cousin). Jacob will be fruitful and multiply and passes along God's blessing and lands of Abraham to Jacob.
Esau sees that Canaanite women don't please Isaac, so he goes to take a wife a daughter of Ishmael (half uncle's daughter, another cousin).
Jacob journeys to Haran and sleeps on the ground, using a stone for a pillow. He dreams of a ladder reaching to heaven with angels going up and down it. This leaves the question as to why angels need a ladder, especially since they're conventionally depicted as having wings. Somebody's got the wrong idea about the characteristics of angels.
God is at the top of the ladder and reaffirms his promise of Abraham and Isaac to Jacob.
Message: deceiving your enfeebled father to screw your brother out of his inheritance in rewarded by God. Take note, you schemers.
Jacob takes the stone used as a pillow, anoints it as a pillar to God, founding Beth-el.
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