brethren to his servitude.  I have stablished him in wheat, wine and oil.  And after this what shall I do to thee, my son?  To whom Esau said:  Hast thou not, father, yet one blessing?  I beseech thee to bless me.  Then with a great sighing and weeping Isaac moved said to him:  In the fatness of the earth and in the dew of heaven shall be thy blessing, thou shalt live in thy sword, and shalt serve thy brother.  Then was Esau woebegone, and hated Jacob for supplanting him of his blessing that his father had blessed him with, and said in his heart:  The days of sorrow shall come to my father, for I shall slay my brother Jacob.  This was told to Rebekah, which anon sent for Jacob her son, and said to him:  Lo!  Esau thy brother threateneth to slay thee, therefore now my son hear my voice and do as I shall counsel.  Make thee ready and go to my brother in Aran, and dwell there with him unto the time that his anger and fury be overpast, and his indignation ceased, and that he forget such things that thou hast done to him, and then after that I shall send for thee, and bring thee hither again.  And Rebekah went to Isaac her husband and said:  I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth, if Jacob take to him a wife of that kindred, I will no longer live.  Isaac then called Jacob and blessed him and commanded to him saying:  I charge thee in no wise to take a wife of the kindred of Canaan, but go and walk into Mesopotamia of Syria, unto the house of Bethuel, father of thy mother, and take to thee there a wife of the daughters of Laban thine uncle.  God Almighty bless thee, and make thee grow and multiply, that thou mayst be increased into tourbes of people, and give to thee the blessings of Abraham, and to thy seed after thee, that thou mayst possess and own the land of thy pilgrimage which he granted to thy grandsire.  When Isaac had thus said, and given him leave to go, he departed anon, and went into Mesopotamia of Syria to Laban, son of Bethuel, brother of Rebekah his mother.  Esau seeing that his father had blessed Jacob and sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria to wed a wife there, and that after his blessing commanded to him saying:  Take thou no wife of the daughters of Canaan; and he obeying his father went into Syria, proving thereby that his father saw not gladly the daughters of Canaan, he went to Ishmael, and took him a wife beside them that he had taken tofore, that was Melech, daughter of Ishmael, son of Abraham.

Then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went forth on his journey toward Aran.  When he came to a certain place after going down of the sun and would rest there all night, he took of the stones that were there and laid under his head and slept in the same place.  And there he saw in his sleep a ladder standing on the earth, and the upper end thereof touched heaven, and angels of God ascending and descending upon it, and our Lord in the midst of the ladder saying to him:  I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and of Isaac; the land on which thou sleepest I shall