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Isaac.

CHAP. XXVIII.

SAAC therfore called Iacob, and blessed him, and commanded him saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan; but 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. And God Almightie blesse thee, and make thee encrease, and multiplie thee: that thou mayest be into multitudes of peoples. And 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. And 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. And 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; and that Iacob obeying his parents was gone into Syria: hauing tryal also that his father did not willingly see the daughters of Canaan, he went to Ismael, and tooke to wife besides them which he had before, Maheleth the daughter of Ismael, Abrahams sonne, sister to Nabaioth. Therfore Iacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran. And 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. And 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, and 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. And thy seed shal be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt be dilated to the West, and to the East, and to Rh