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Eau threateneth Jacob's life.

thou but one bleing, my father? bles me, even me alo, O my father. And Eau lifted up his voice, and wept.

And Iaac his father anwered and aid unto him, Behold, thy dwelling hall be ‖ the fatnes of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

And by thy word halt thou live, and halt erve thy brother; and it hall come to pas when thou halt have the dominion, that thou halt break his yoke from off thy neck.

¶ And Eau hated Jacob becaue of the bleing wherewith his father bleed him: and Eau aid in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I lay my brother Jacob.

¶ And thee words of Eau her elder on were told to Rebekah: and he ent and called Jacob her younger on, and aid unto him, Behold, thy brother Eau, as touching thee, doth comfort himelf, purpoing to kill thee.

Now therefore, my on, obey my voice; and arie, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;

And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;

Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hat done to him: then I will end, and fetch thee from thence: why hould I be deprived alo of you both in one day?

And Rebekah aid to Iaac, I am weary of my life becaue of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, uch as thee which are of the daughters of the land, what good hall my life do me?

1 Jacob receiveth from Iaac a charge and bleing, and goeth to Padan-aram. 6 Eau marrieth a daughter of Ihmael. 10 The viion of Jacob's ladder; he receiveth a promie from God in a dream. 16 He awaketh, and etteth up the tone at Beth-el. 20 His vow.

Iaac called Jacob, and bleed him, and charged him, and aid unto him, Thou halt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

Arie, go to Padan-aram, to the houe of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

And God Almighty bles thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayet be † a multitude of people;

And give thee the bleing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy eed with thee; that thou mayet inherit the land † wherein thou art a tranger, which God gave unto Abraham.

And Iaac ent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, on of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Eau's mother.

¶ When Eau aw that Iaac had bleed Jacob, and ent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he bleed him he gave him a charge, aying, Thou halt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;

And Eau eeing that the daughters of Canaan † pleaed not Iaac his father;

Then went Eau unto Ihmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ihmael Abraham's on, the iter of Nebajoth, to be his wife.

¶ And Jacob went out from Beer-heba, and went toward Haran.

And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, becaue the un was et; and he took of the tones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to leep.

And he dreamed, and behold a ladder et up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God acending and decending on it.

And, behold, the tood above it, and aid, I am the  God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Iaac: the land whereon thou liet, to thee will I give it, and to thy eed;

And thy eed hall be as the dut of the earth, and thou halt † pread abroad to the wet, and to the eat, and to the north, and to the outh: and in thee and in thy eed hall all the families of the earth be bleed.

And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goet, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have poken to thee of.

¶ And Jacob awaked out of his leep, and he aid, Surely the is in this place; and I knew it not.

And he was afraid, and aid, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the houe of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

And Jacob roe up early in the morning, and took the tone that he had put for his pillows, and et it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

And he called the name of that place ‖ Beth-el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the firt.