Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and traveled toward Haran. At sundown he  arrived at a good place to set up camp and stopped there for the night.  Jacob found a stone to rest his head against and lay down to sleep. As  he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to  heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway. At  the top of the stairway stood the Lord, and he said, “I am the Lord, the  God of your grandfather Abraham, and the God of your father, Isaac. The  ground you are lying on belongs to you. I am giving it to you and your  descendants. Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the  earth! They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east,  to the north and the south. And all the families of the earth will be  blessed through you and your descendants. What’s more, I am with you,  and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to  this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you  everything I have promised you.” Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and  said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I wasn’t even aware of it!”