A   Then called Isaac his sonne Iacob and ^note blessed him, and charged him, ∧ sayde vnto him: Take not a wife of the doughters of Canaan, but get the vp, and go in to Mesopotamia vnto the house of Bethuel thy mothers father, and take þe; there a wife of þe; doughters of Laban þi; mothers brother. And the Allmightie God blesse the, and make the frutefull, and multiplye the, (that thou mayest be a multitude of people) and geue the the blessynge of Abraham vnto þe; ∧ thy sede with the, that thou mayest possesse the lande, wherin thou art a straunger, ^note which God gaue vnto Abraham. So Isaac let Iacob departe, that he might go in to Mesopotamia vnto Laban the sonne of Bethuel of Siria, þe; brother of Rebecca, his and Esaus mother.

B   Now when Esau sawe that Isaac had blessed Iacob, and let him departe in to Mesopotamia, that he might take a wife there: and þt;, as he blessed him, he charged him, ∧ sayde: Thou shalt not take a wife of the doughters of Canaan, and that Iacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone vnto Mesopotamia: seynge also that Isaac his father loked not gladly vpon the doughters of Canaan, he wente his waye vnto Ismael, and besyde the wyues that he had afore, ^note he toke Mahaloth the doughter of Ismael (Abrah&abar;s sonne) the sister of Nebaioth, to wife.

C   As for Iacob, he departed from Bersaba, and wente vnto Haran and came to a place, where he taried all night: for the Sonne was downe. And he toke a stone of þe; place, ∧ put it vnder his heade, and layed him downe in þe; same place to slepe. And he dreamed, and beholde, there stode vpon þe; earth, a ladder, whose toppe reached vnto the heauen. ^noteAnd beholde, the angels of God wente vp and downe vpon it, and the LORDE stode vpon it, and sayde:

^noteI am the LORDE God of thy father Abraham, and the God of Isaac: The londe þt; thou lyest vpon, wyl I geue vnto the, and to thy sede: ^note and thy sede shal be as þe; dust of þe; earth. And thou shalt sprede forth towarde the west, east, north, and south: ^note and thorow the and thy sede shall all the kynreds vpon earth be blessed. And beholde, I am with þe;, and wyll kepe the where so euer thou goest, ∧ wyl brynge the hither agayne in to this lande: for I wil not leaue the, tyll I haue made good, all that I haue promysed the.

D   Now whan Iacob awaked from his slepe, he saide: Surely the LORDE is in this place, and I knew not. And he was afraied, and sayde: How fearfull is this place? here is nothinge els but an house of God, ∧ a gate vnto heau&ebar;. And Iacob arose early in the mornynge, and toke the stone that he had layed vnder his heade, and set it vp, and poured oyle vpon it. ^noteAnd he called the place Bethel, but afore the cite was called Lus. And Iacob made a vowe, and sayde: ^note Yf God wyll be with me, and kepe me in this iourney þt; I go ∧ geue me bred to eate, and clothinge to put on, and brynge me peaceably home agayne vnto my father: Th&ebar; shall the LORDE be my God, and this stone that I haue set vp, shalbe an house of God: and all that thou geuest me, I wyl geue the the tenth therof.

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