Beholde thy dwellynge place shall haue of the fatnesse of the erth/ &
of the dewe of heauen frõ aboue. And wyth thy swerde shalt thou lyue
and shalt be thy brothers seruaunte But the tyme will come/ when thou
shalt gett the mastrye/ and lowse his yocke from of thy necke.
And Esau hated Iacob because of the blessynge y^t his father blessed
him with all/ & sayde in his harte: The dayes of my fathers sorowe are
at hãde/ for I will sley my brother Iacob. And these wordes of Esau
hir eldest sonne/ were told to Rebecca. And she sente ãd called Iacob
hir yongest sonne/ and sayde vnto hĩ: beholde thy brother Esau
threatneth to kyll the: Now therfore my sõne heare my voyce/ make the
redie & flee to Labã my brother at Haran And tarie with him a while/
vntill thy brothers fearsnes be swaged/ and vntill thy brothers wrath
turne away from the/ and he forgett that which thou hast done to him.
Thã will I sende and fett the awaye from thence. Why shulde I lose you
both in one daye.
And Rebecca spake to Isaac: I am wery of my life/ for feare of the
doughters of Heth. Yf Iacob take a wife of the doughters of Heth/ soch
one as these are/ or of the doughters of the lande/ what lust shulde I
haue to lyue.
¶ The .xxviij. Chapter.
Than Isaac called Iacob his sonne and blessed him/ ãd charged him and
sayde vnto him: se thou take not a wife of the doughters of Canaan/
but aryse ãd gett the to Mesopotamia of the house of Bethuel thy
mothers father: and there take the a wife of the doughters of Laban
thi mothers brother. And God allmightie blesse the/ increase the and
multiplie the that thou mayst be a nombre of people/ and geue the the
blessynge of Abraham: both to the and to thy seed with the that thou
mayst possesse the lãde (wherein thou art a strangere) which God gaue
vnto Abraham. Thus Isaac sent forth Iacob/ to goo to Mesopotamia vnto
Laban/ sonne of Bethuel the Sirien/ and brother to Rebecca Iacobs &
Esaus mother.
When Esau sawe that Isaac had blessed Iacob/ and sent him to
Mesopotamia/ to fett him a wife thence/ and that/ as he blessed him
he gaue him a charge saynge: se thou take not a wife of the doughters
of Canaan: and that Iacob had obeyed his father and mother/ & was gone
vnto Mesopotamia: and seynge also that the doughters of Canaan pleased
not Isaac his father: Then went he vnto Ismael/ and toke vnto the
wiues which he had/ Mahala the doughter of Ismael Abrahams sonne/ the
sister of Nabaioth to be his wife.
Iacob departed from Berseba and went toward Haran/ and came vnto a
place and taried there all nyghte/ because the sonne was downe. And
toke a stone of the place/ and put it vnder his heade/ and layde him
downe in the same place to slepe. And he dreamed: and beholde there
stode a ladder apon the erth/ and the topp of it reached vpp to heauẽ.
And se/ the angells of God went vp and downe apon it/ yee ãd the LORde
stode apon it and sayde.
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