The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar eBook - Book - Page 166
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CHAPTER 27:
Rebecca Induces Isaac
To Send Jacob To
Mesopotamia. Jacob’s
Dream And View At
Bethel (27:1-27; cf. Gen. 28)
1 And the words of Esau, her
elder son, were told to Rebecca
in a dream, and Rebecca sent
and called Jacob her younger
son, and said unto him:
2 “Behold Esau thy brother
will take vengeance on thee so
as to kill thee. 3 Now, therefore,
my son, obey my voice, and
arise and flee thou to Laban,
my brother, to Haran, and
tarry with him a few days until
thy brother’s anger turneth
away, and he remove his
anger from thee, and forget
all that thou hast done; then I
will send and fetch thee from
thence.” 4 And Jacob said: “I
am not afraid; if he wisheth to
kill me, I will kill him.” 5 But
she said unto him: “Let me not
be bereft of both my sons on
one day.” 6 And Jacob said to
Rebecca his mother: “Behold,
thou knowest that my father
hath become old, and doth
not see because his eyes are
dull, and if I leave him it will
be evil in his eyes, because I
leave him and go away from
you, and my father will be
L E A V E S
angry, and will curse me. I will
not go; 1 when he sendeth me,
then only will I go.”
7 And Rebecca said to Jacob:
“I will go in and speak to him,
and he will send thee away.”
8 And Rebecca went in and
said to Isaac: “I loathe my life
because of the two daughters
of Heth, whom Esau hath
taken him as wives; and if
Jacob take a wife from among
the daughters of the land such
as these, for what purpose do I
further live; for the daughters Cf. Gn. 27:46
of Canaan are evil.” 9 And
Isaac called Jacob and blessed
him, and admonished him
and said unto him: 10 “Do
not take thee a wife of any
of the daughters of Canaan;
arise and go to Mesopotamia,
to the house of Bethuel, thy
mother’s father, and take
thee a wife from thence of
the daughters of Laban, thy
mother’s brother. 11 And
Yahuah Almighty bless thee
and increase and multiply
thee that thou mayest become
a company of nations, and
give thee the blessings of my
father Abraham, to thee and
to thy seed after thee, that
thou mayest inherit the land
of thy sojournings and all
the land which Yahuah gave
to Abraham: go, my son, in
peace.” 12 And Isaac sent
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