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Genesis 27

    ²And his father said to him: Thou seest that I am old, and know not the day of my death.

    ³Take thy arms, thy quiver, and bow, and go abroad: and when thou hast taken some thing by hunting,

    ⁴Make me savoury meat thereof, as thou knowest I like, and bring it, that I may eat: and my soul may bless thee before I die.

    ⁵And when Rebecca had heard this, and he was gone into the field to fulfill his father's commandment,

    ⁶She said to her son Jacob: I heard thy father talking with Esau thy brother, and saying to him:

    ⁷Bring me of thy hunting, and make me meats that I may eat, and bless thee in the sight of the Lord, before I die.

    ⁸Now, therefore, my son, follow my counsel:

    ⁹And go thy way to the flock, bring me two kids of the best, that I may make of them meat for thy father, such as he gladly eateth:

    ¹⁰Which when thou hast brought in, and he hath eaten, he may bless thee before he die.

    ¹¹And he answered her: Thou knowest that Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am smooth.

    ¹²If my father shall feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he will think I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse instead of a blessing.

    ¹³And his mother said to him: Upon me be this curse, my son: only hear thou my voice, and go, fetch me the things which I have said.

    ¹⁴He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed meats, such as she knew his father liked.

    ¹⁵And she put on him very good garments of Esau, which she had at home with her:

    ¹⁶And the little skins of the kids she put about his hands, and covered the bare of his neck.

    ¹⁷And she gave him the savoury meat, and delivered him bread that she had baked.

    ¹⁸Which when he had carried in, he said: My father? But he answered: I hear. Who art thou, my son?

    ¹⁹And Jacob said: I am Esau thy firstborn: I have done as thou didst command me: arise, sit, and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

    ²⁰And Isaac said to his son: How couldst thou find it so quickly, my son?

    ²¹And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and may prove whether thou be my son Esau, or not.

    ²²He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said: The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands are the hands of Esau.

    ²³He said: Art thou my son Esau? He answered: I am.

    ²⁵Then he said: Bring me the meats of thy hunting, my son, that my soul may bless thee. And when they were brought, and he had eaten, he offered him wine also, which after he had drunk,

    ²⁶He said to him: Come near me, and give me a kiss, my son.

    ²⁷He came near, and kissed him. And immediately as he smelled the fragrant smell of his garments, blessing him, he said: Behold the smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field, which Lord hath blessed.

    ²⁸God give thee the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance of corn and wine.

    ²⁹And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee: be thou lord of thy brethren, and let they mother's children bow down before thee. Cursed be he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be filled with blessings.

    ³⁰Isaac had scarce ended his words, when Jacob being now gone out abroad, Esau came,

    ³¹And brought in to his father meats made of what he had taken in hunting, saying: Arise, my father, and eat of thy son's venison; that thy soul may bless me.

    ³²And Isaac said to him: Why! who art thou? He answered: I am thy firstborn son Esau.

    ³³Isaac was struck with fear, and astonished exceedingly: and wondering beyond what can be believed, said Who is he then the even now brought me venison that he had taken, and I ate of all before thou camest? and I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed.

    ³⁴Esau having heard his father's words, roared out with a great cry: and being in a great consternation, said: Bless me also, my father.

    ³⁵And he said: Thy brother came deceitfully and got thy blessing.

    ³⁶But he said again: Rightly is his name called Jacob; for he hath supplanted me lo this second time: my first birthright he took away before, and now this second time he hath stolen away my blessing. And again he said to his father: Hast thou not reserved me also a blessing?

    ³⁷Isaac answered: I have appointed him thy lord, and have made all his brethren his servants: I have established him with corn and wine, and after this, what shall I do more for thee, my son?

    ³⁸And Esac said to him: Hast thou only one blessing, father? I beseech thee bless me also. And when he wept with a loud cry,

    ³⁹Isaac being moved, said to him: In the fat of the earth, and in the dew of heaven from above,

    ⁴⁰Shall thy blessing be. Thou shalt live by the sword and shalt serve thy brother: and the time shall come, when thou shalt shake off and loose his yoke from thy neck.

    ⁴¹Esau therefore always hated Jacob for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him: and he said in his heart: The days will come of the mourning of my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob.

    ⁴²These things were told to Rebecca: and she sent and called Jacob her son, and said to him: Behold Esau thy brother threateneth to kill thee.

    ⁴³Now therefore, my son, hear my voice: arise and flee to Laban my brother to Haran:

    ⁴⁴And thou shalt dwell with him a few days, till wrath of thy brother be assuaged,

    ⁴⁵And his indignation cease, and he forget the things thou hast done to him: afterwards I will send, and bring thee from thence hither. Why shall I be deprived of both my sons in one day?

    ⁴⁶And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I choose not to live.

Genesis 28

    ²But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bathuel thy mother's father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban thy uncle.

    ³And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase, and multiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people.

    ⁴And give the blessings of Abrabam to thee, and to thy seed after thee: that thou mayst possess the land of thy sojournment, which he promised to thy grandfather.

    ⁵And when Isaac had sent him away, he took his journey and went to Mesopotamia of Syria to Laban the son of Bathuel the Syrian, brother to Rebecca his mother.

    ⁶And Esau seeing that his father had blessed Jacob, and had sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after the blessing he had charged him, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Chanaan:

    ⁷And that Jacob obeying his parents was gone into Syria:

    ⁸Experiencing also that his father was not well pleased with the daughters of Chanaan:

    ⁹He went to Ismael, and took to wife, besides them he had before, Maheleth the daughter of Ismael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nabajoth.

    ¹⁰But Jacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran.

    ¹¹And when he was come to a certain place, and would rest in it after sunset, he took of the stones that lay there, and putting under his head, slept in the same place.

    ¹²And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it;

    ¹³And the Lord leaning upon the ladder, saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac; the land, wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed.

    ¹⁴And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and IN THEE and thy seed all the tribes of the earth SHALL BE BLESSED.

    ¹⁵And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all that I have said.

    ¹⁶And when Jacob awaked out of sleep, he said: Indeed the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.

    ¹⁷And trembling he said: How terrible is this place! this is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.

    ¹⁸And Jacob, arising in the morning, took the stone, which he had laid under his head, and set it up for a title, pouring oil upon the top of it.

    ¹⁹And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza.

    ²⁰And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

    ²¹And I shall return prosperously to my father's house: the Lord shall be my God:

    ²²And this stone, which I have set up for a title, shall called the house of God: and of all things that thou shalt give to me, I will offer tithes to thee.

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¹⁸And Jesus seeing great multitudes about him, gave orders to pass over the water.

    ¹⁹And a certain scribe came and said to him: Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou shalt go.

    ²⁰And Jesus saith to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests: but the son of man hath not where to lay his head.

    ²¹And another of his disciples said to him: Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

    ²²But Jesus said to him: Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead.

    ²³And when he entered into the boat, his disciples followed him:

    ²⁴And behold a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was covered with waves, but he was asleep.

    ²⁵And they came to him, and awaked him, saying: Lord, save us, we perish.

    ²⁶And Jesus saith to them: Why are you fearful, O ye of little faith? Then rising up he commanded the winds, and the sea, and there came a great calm.

    ²⁷But the men wondered, saying: What manner of man is this, for the winds and the sea obey him?

    ²⁸And when he was come on the other side of the water, into the country of the Gerasens, there met him two that were possessed with devils, coming out of the sepulchres, exceeding fierce, so that none could pass by that way.

    ²⁹And behold they cried out, saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?

    ³⁰And there was, not far from them, an herd of many swine feeding.

    ³¹And the devils besought him, saying: If thou cast us out hence, send us into the herd of swine.

    ³²And he said to them: Go. But they going out went into the swine, and behold the whole herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea: and they perished in the waters.

    ³³And they that kept them fled: and coming into the city, told every thing, and concerning them that had been possessed by the devils.

    ³⁴And behold the whole city went out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart from their coasts.