Genesis - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 27
The Five Books of Moses
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Then he asked, °‘ Have you not a blessing left for me? ' But Isaac replied and said to Esau ;‘ Since I have made him your Master, and have given all his brothers to him for servants, and with increase and possession I have endowed him ; where now my son is there anything Is
there then only One Blessing with you my father? Bless me also, my and Esau lifted up his voice and wept. Then Isaac his father answered and said to him; ‘ Yes ! in the most fertile land shall be your dwelling. And with the dew from the skies above. And you shall live by your sword, but shall serve your brother; ·
Yet when you extend, you shall break his yoke From off your neck} But Esau hated jacob for the bless-
ing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said in his heart, ‘ The day approaches for the mourn— ing of my father, when I will kill my brother? But the words of her elder son Esau were reported to Rebekka, so she sent and called her younger son jacob, and said to him; 'Now Esau, your brother, intends to kill you; consequently my son listen to my voice, and arise and go away to Laban my brother, at Kharan, and stay with him for some time, until the anger of your brother has passed away. ,When the rage of your brother against you has passed, and he forgets what you have done tdhim, I will send and fetch you from there. Why should I be de- prived of both in one day ?v’ I
hate my life in the presence of these Hitite girls! If jacob should take a wife- from among these Hitite girls such girls as they are, in this country, why should I live ?’ jam}: mnt in hahah $rsm. Consequently Isaac called for jacob
and blessed him, and commanded him not to take a wife from the girls »Arise, go to Padan Arain, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and take yourself a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. And may Armourv Goo bless you, and make you fruitful, and increase, and may you become an assembly of nations, and may He give the bless· ings of Abraham to you and your race with you, to inherit the land of your strangerhood, which Gob gave Thus Isaac sent off jacob, and he travelled to Padan Aram, to Laban, the son of Bethuel, the Arami, the brother of Rebekka, the mother of jacob and- Esau. But when Esau knew that Isaac
had blessed jacob and sent him to Padan Aram to take himself a wife from there to comfort him,—-·and had Take not a and that jacob had listened to the voice of his father and ..mother, and had gone to Padan Aram,-—·—then Esau 8 perceived that the girls of Canan were displeasing in the eyes of Isaac hisfather, so Esau went to Ishmael .9 and took Malath the daughter of Ishmael the son of Abraham, the sister of Nebaioth, besides his other wives, as a wife to himself. jnwlfz Qistnrg in Qnbnn §rnm. I0 jacob, however, set out from the
Well of the Oath; and travelled to Kharan. And he arrived at a place, and rested there, for it was sunset; so he took one of the stones of the place and put it for his pillow, and laid down in the spot- Then he dreamed and saw a ladder with its foot standing on the ground and its head reaching to the heavens, and there were, Msssnivonns of Gon ascending and descending it. And he saw the EvER—L1VING stationed I am the EVER- LIVING Gon of your father Abraham, and the GOD of Isaac,—·—thel land which you now lie upon I will give to you and your race; and your race shall be like the dust of the earth, and shall spread West and East, and North and South, and all the Nations of the world shall be benefited by you andyour Heir. Be assured also that I amwith you, and will guard you wherever you go, and I will give you a quiet return to this country, for I will not forsake you until I have accomplished what I have promised Then jacob awoke from his sleep, II I2 16
