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CHAP. XXVIII.

 

Iacob with his fathers blessing, and admonition not to take a wife of Chanaan, but of the daughters of his vncle Laban, goeth into Mesopotamia. 6. Esau in the meane time marieth a third wife, his vncle Ismaels daughter. 11. Iacob seeth in sleep a ladder reaching to heauen, Angels ascending and descending, and our Lord leaning theron renewed the promises made to Abraham and Isaac. 16. And he awayking maketh a vow.

 

ISAAC therfore called Iacob, and blessed him, and commanded him saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan; ²but goe and make a iourney into Mesopotamia of Syria; to the house of Bathuel thy mothers father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban thine vncle. ³And God Almightie blesse thee, and make thee encrease, and multiplie thee: that thou mayest be into multitudes of peoples. ⁴And ^[1] giue he thee the blessings of Abraham, and to thy seed after thee: that thou mayest possesse the land of thy perigrination, which he promised to thy grandfather. ⁵And when Isaac had dismist him, taking his iourney he came to Mesopotamia of Syria to Laban, the sonne of Bathuel the Syrian, brother to Rebecca his mother. ⁶And Esau seeing that his father had blessed Iacob, and had sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after the blessing he had commanded him, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Chanaan; ⁷and that Iacob obeying his parents was gone into Syria: ⁸hauing tryal also that his father did not willingly see the daughters of Canaan, ⁹he went to Ismael, and tooke to wife besides them which he had before, Maheleth the daughter of Ismael, Abrahams sonne, sister to Nabaioth. The Epistle in a votiue Masse for trauailers.¹⁰Therfore Iacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran. ¹¹And when he was come to a certaine place, and would rest in it after sunne set, he ″ tooke one of the stones that lay there, and putting in vnder his head, slept in the same place. Sap. 10.¹²And he saw in his sleepe ″ a ladder standing vpon the earth, & the top therof touching heauen: the Angels also of God ascending & descending by it, ¹³and our Lord leaning vpon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, & the God of Isaac: the Land wherin thou sleepest, I wil giue to thee and to thy seed. ¹⁴And thy seed shal be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt be dilated to the West, and to the East, and to

1. Isaac againe confirmeth the blessings of Abraham to Iacob and his seed, omitting Esau; yea and God repeateth the same v. 13.