Thus
Isaac sent forth Iacob, to go to Mesopotamia unto Laban, son of
Bethuel the Sirien, and brother to Rebecca Iacob's and Esau's
mother. When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Iacob, and sent him
to Mesopotamia, to fetch him a wife thence, and that, as he
blessed him he gave him a charge saying: see thou take not a wife
of the daughters of Canaan: and that Iacob had obeyed his father
and mother, and was gone unto Mesopotamia: and seeing also that
the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father: Then went he
unto Ismael, and took unto the wives which he had, Mahala the
daughter of Ismael Abraham's son, the sister of Nabaioth to be his
wife. Iacob departed from Berseba and went toward Haran, and came
unto a place and tarried there all night, because the son was
down. And took a stone of the place, and put it under his head,
and laid him down in the same place to sleep. And he dreamed: and
behold there stood a ladder upon the earth, and the top of it
reached up to heaven. And see, the angels of God went up and down
upon it, yea and the LORD stood upon it and said: I am the LORD
God of Abraham thy father and the God of Isaac: The land which
thou sleepest upon will I give thee and thy seed.
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