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Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. See also: Genesis 24:3Genesis 28:3-4Genesis 27:46Arise, 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. See also: Genesis 25:20Hosea 12:12Genesis 24:15-24May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples, See also: Genesis 48:3Genesis 35:11Genesis 22:17-18and 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.” See also: Galatians 3:14Genesis 12:7Genesis 17:6-8Isaac 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. 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;” See also: Genesis 28:1Genesis 27:33and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram. See also: Leviticus 19:3Proverbs 30:17Ephesians 6:1Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father. See also: Genesis 24:3Genesis 26:34-351 Samuel 8:6So 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. See also: Genesis 36:3Genesis 36:13Genesis 25:13-17Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. See also: Acts 7:2Genesis 11:31Genesis 32:10He 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. See also: Genesis 28:18Matthew 8:20Genesis 31:46He 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. See also: John 1:51Genesis 32:1-2Numbers 12:6Behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, “I am the LORD, 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. See also: Genesis 13:15Genesis 35:12Genesis 48:3Your 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. See also: Genesis 12:3Genesis 22:18Genesis 18:18Behold, 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.” See also: Joshua 1:5Isaiah 41:10Jeremiah 1:19Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I didn’t know it.” See also: Joshua 5:15Exodus 15:11Job 9:11He was afraid, and said, “How awesome this place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.” See also: 1 Timothy 3:15Genesis 35:1-13Ecclesiastes 5:1Jacob 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. See also: Genesis 35:14Genesis 31:45Genesis 31:13He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first. See also: Hosea 12:4-5Genesis 48:3Genesis 35:1Jacob 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, See also: 1 Timothy 6:82 Samuel 15:8Genesis 31:13so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and the LORD will be my God, See also: Judges 11:31Deuteronomy 26:17Exodus 15:2then 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.” See also: Genesis 35:7Genesis 14:20Deuteronomy 14:22-23
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)10 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Genesis 28:2
Ver. 2. Take. Sept. "flee;" as if Isaac began at last to be apprized of Esau's designs. Wisdom (x. 10.) conducted the just when he fled from his brother's wrath, &c. --- Thy uncle. He points out the house, but leaves the woman to his choice.
↑ 2Genesis 28:4
Ver. 4. Grandfather. Isaac, out of modesty, does not mention that the same promises had been made to himself. He determines the right over Chanaan to belong solely to Jacob, and to his posterity. H.
↑ 4Genesis 28:9
Ver. 9. To Ismael's family; for he had been dead fourteen years. Esau asks no advice. It is doubtful whether he meant to appease or irritate his parents, (M.) by this marriage with the daughter of Ismael. She lived with her brother, the head of the Nabutheans, and is called Basemath. C. xxxvi. 3. C.
↑ 9Genesis 28:11
Ver. 11. Head for a pillow. Behold the austerity of the heir of all that country! H. --- He departs from home in haste, with his staff only, that Esau might not know. W.
↑ 11Genesis 28:12
Ver. 12. A ladder and angels, &c. This mysterious vision tended to comfort the patriarch, with the assurance that God would now take him under his more particular protection, when he was destitute of human aid. H. --- The angels ascending, foretold that his journey would be prosperous; and descending, shewed that he would return with safety. M. --- Or rather, the ladder represented the incarnation of Jesus Christ, born of so many patriarchs from Adam, who was created by God, to the blessed Virgin. He is the way by which we must ascend, by observing the truth, till we obtain life eternal. H. --- Mercy and truth are like the two sides; the virtues of Christ are signified by the steps. Angels descend to announces this joyful mystery to men; they ascend to convey the prayers and ardent desires of the ancient saints, to hasten their redemption. M. --- Our Saviour seems to allude to this passage. Jo. i. 51. xiv. 6. The Providence of God, watching over all things, appears here very conspicuous.
↑ 12Genesis 28:13
Ver. 13. Thy father, or grandfather. God joins the dead with the living, to shew that all live to him, and that the soul is immortal.
H.
↑ 13Genesis 28:16
Ver. 16. Knew it not. Jacob was not ignorant that God fil s all places. But he thought that he would not manifest himself thus in a land given to idolatry. He begins to suspect that the place had been formerly consecrated to the worship of the true God, (C.) as it probably had by Abraham, who dwelt near Bethel, (C.
xii. 8, ) and built an altar on Mount Moria, xxii. 14. Interpreters are not agreed on which of these places Jacob spent the night.
S. Aug. q. 83, supposes it was on the latter, "where God appointed the tabernacle to remain." The Chaldee paraphrases it very well in this sense, v. 17, "How terrible is this place! It is not an ordinary place, but a place beloved by God, and over against this place is the door of heaven." H.
↑ 16Genesis 28:18
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 18. A title. That is a pillar or monument. Ch. --- Or an altar, consecrated by that rite to the service of the true God. This he did without any superstition; as the Catholic Church still pours oil or chrism upon her altars, in imitation of Jacob. Raban.
Instit. i. 45. If pagans did the like, this is no reason why we should condemn the practice. They were blamable for designing thus to worship false gods. Clem. strom. vii. Apul.
Florid. i. &c. If Protestants pul down altars, under the plea of their being superstitious, we cannot but pity their ignorance or malice. W.
↑ 18Genesis 28:19
Ver. 19. Bethel. This name signifies the house of God. Ch. ---
Bethel was the name which Jacob gave to the place; and the town, which was built after his return, was called by the same name. Hence those famous animated stones or idols, received their title (Bethules, Eus. præp. i. 10.) being consecrated to Saturn, the Sun, &c. Til the days of Mahomet, the Arabs adored a rough stone, taken from the temple of Mecca, which they pretended was built by Abraham. Chardin. --- Luza, so called from the number of nut or almond trees. Here the golden calf was afterwards set up, on the confines of the tribes of Benjamin and of Ephraim, (C.) the southern limits of the kingdom of Jeroboam. H.
↑ 19Genesis 28:20
Ver. 20. A vow; not simply that he would acknowledge one God, but that he would testify his peculiar veneration for him, by erecting an altar, at his return, and by giving voluntarily the tithes of all he had. W. C. xxxv. 7. How he gave these tithes, we do not read. Perhaps he might herby engage his posterity to give them under the law of Moses. C.
↑ 20License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses