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Book of Genesis 35

and he said in his heart: The days will come of to Laban, the son of Bathuel, the Syrian, brother
the mourning for my father, and I will kill my to Rebecca, his mother.
brother Jacob. 6 And Esau seeing that his father had blessed
42 These things were told to Rebecca: and Jacob, and had sent him into Mesopotamia of
she sent and called Jacob, her son, and said to Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after the
him: Behold Esau, thy brother, threateneth to blessing he had charged him, saying: Thou shalt
kill thee. not take a wife of the daughters of Chanaan:
43 Now therefore, my son, hear my voice, arise 7 And that Jacob obeying his parents, was
and flee to Laban, my brother, to Haran: gone into Syria:
44 And thou shalt dwell with him a few days, 8 Experiencing also, that his father was not
till the wrath of thy brother be assuaged, well pleased with the daughters of Chanaan:
45 And his indignation cease, and he forget 9 He went to Ismael, and took to wife, besides
the things thou hast done to him: afterwards them he had before, Maheleth, the daughter of
I will send, and bring thee from thence hither. Ismael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nabajoth.
Why shall I be deprived of both my sons in one 10 But Jacob being departed from Bersabee,
day? went on to Haran.
46 And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary 11 And when he was come to a certain place,
of my life, because of the daughters of Heth: if and would rest in it after sunset, he took of
Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I the stones that lay there, and putting under his
choose not to live. head, slept in the same place.
12 And he saw in his sleep a ladder stand-
ing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching
Chapter 28 heaven: the angels also of God ascending and
descending by it.
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and 13 And the Lord leaning upon the ladder say-
charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock ing to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy
of Chanaan: father, and the God of Isaac: The land, wherein
2 But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed.
of Syria, to the house of Bathuel, thy mother’s 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the
father, and take thee a wife thence of the daugh- earth: thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and
ters of Laban, thy uncle. to the east, and to the north, and to the south:
3 And God almighty bless thee, and make thee and IN THEE and thy seed, all the tribes of the
to increase and multiply thee: that thou mayst earth SHALL BE BLESSED.
be a multitude of people. 15 And I will be thy keeper whithersoever
4 And give the blessings of Araham to thee, thou goest, and will bring thee back into this
and to thy seed after thee: that thou mayst land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have
possess the land of thy sojournment, which he accomplished all that I have said.
promised to thy grandfather. 16 And when Jacob awaked out of sleep, he
5 And when Isaac had sent him away, he took said: Indeed the Lord is in this place, and I knew
his journey and went to Mesopotamia of Syria, it not.