Rung 1 of 8
The story
What happens, plainly.
Yaakov leaves Be'er Sheva for Charan. Night falls on the road, he sleeps on the stones, and he dreams of a ladder with angels going up and down it while G‑d promises him the land. In Charan he works seven years to marry Rachel, wakes to find Lavan has given him Leah, and works seven more. Leah and the two maids bear ten sons and a daughter, and at last Rachel has Yosef. After twenty years, and Lavan changing his wages again and again, Yaakov flees with his family; Lavan chases him, and the two men pile up a heap of stones as a boundary between them. Yaakov goes on his way, angels meet him, and he names the place Machanayim.