1. ISᴀᴀᴄ therfore called Iacob, and blessed him, and commanded him saying: Take not a
wife of the stocke of Chanaan:
2. 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 thin vncle.
3. And God almightie blesse thee, and make thee encrease, and multiplie thee: that thou
maiest be into multitudes of peoples.
4. And geue 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.
5. 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.
6. And Esau seing 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:
7. and that Iacob obeying his parents was gone into Syria:
8. hauing tryal also that his father did not willingly see the daughters of Canaan:
9. he went to Ismael, and tooke to wife besides them, which he had before, Maheleth the
daughter of Ismael Abrahams sonne, sister to Nabaioth.
10. Therfore Iacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran.
11. 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 it vnder his head, slept in the same
place.
12. And he saw in his sleepe a ladder standing vpon the earth, and the top therof
tooching heauen: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it,
13. and our Lord leyning vpon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy
father, and the God of Isaac: the Land, wherin thou sleepest, I wil geue to thee and to thy seed.
14. And thy seed shal be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt be dilated to the West,
and to the East, & to the North, and to the South: and ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇᴇ and thy seed al the tribes of
the earth ꜱʜᴀʟ ʙᴇ ʙʟᴇssᴇᴅ.
15. And I wil be thy keeper whither so euer thou goest, and wil bring thee backe into
this land: neither wil I leaue thee, til I shal haue accomplished al things which I haue said.
16. And when Iacob was awaked out of sleepe, he said: In dede our Lord is in this place,
and I wist not.
17. And trembling he said: How terrible is this place! this is none other but the house
of God, and the gate of heauen.
18. And Iacob arising in the morning, tooke the stone, which he had laid vnder his head,
and erected it for a title, powring oyle vpon the toppe.
19. And he called the name of the citie Bethel, which before was called Luza.
20. And he vowed a vowe, saying: If God shal be with me, and shal keepe me in the way,
by the which I walke, and shal geue me bread to eate, and rayment to put on,
21. and I shal be returned prosperously to my fathers house, the Lord shal be my God,
22. and this stone, which I haue erected for a title, shal be called the House of God:
and of al things that thou shalt geue to me, I wil offer tithes to thee.