Vayeitzei

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Vayeitzei  is one long unbroken paragraph.

Genesis 28:12  And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!

בו (bo) = “on it” or “on him”

John 1:51  And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

Genesis 29:10  … Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth and he watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.

וישק (va’yishak) = “and he watered” or “and he kissed”

Genesis 29:11  Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

Genesis 30:23-24  She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away [אסף] my reproach.” And she called his name Joseph [יוסף], saying, “May Adonai add [יסף] to me another son!”

Genesis 31:20  And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he was fleeing.

ויגנב יעקב את לב (vayig’nov Ya’akov et lev) = “and he stole the heart of” (+ v.26)

REFERENCES:

Genesis 49:1  Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather [אסף, asaph] yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come.”

Exodus 34:22  You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering [אסיף, asiph] at the year’s end.

Genesis 31:26  Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done by stealing my heart [ותגנב את לבבי, vatig’nov et l’vavi] and carrying away my daughters like captives of the sword?”