[The Pentateuch]

¶ The .xxviij. Chapter.

Than Isaac called Jacob his son and blessed him / and charged him and said unto him: see thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan / but arise and get the to Mesopotamia to the house of Bethuel thy mothers father: and there take the a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mothers brother. And God almighty bless the / increase thee and multiply the that thou mayst be a number of people / and giveth the blessing of Abraham: both to thee and to thy seed with the that thou mayst possess the land (wherein thou art a stranger) which God gave unto Abraham. Thus Isaac sent forth Jacob / to goo to Mesopotamia unto Laban / son of Bethuel the Syrian / and brother to Rebecca Jacobs & Esau's mother.

THan Isaac called Jacob his sonne and blessed him / ād charged him and sayde vnto him: se thou take not a wife of the doughters of Canaan / but aryse ād gett the to Mesopotamia to the house of Bethuel thy mothers father: and there take the a wife of the doughters of Laban thi mothers brother. And God allmightte blesse the / increase the and multiplie the that thou mayst be a nombre of people / and geuethe the blessynge of Abraham: both to the and to thy seed with the that thou mayst possesse the lāde (wherein thou art a strangere) which God gaue vnto Abraham. Thus Isaac sent forth Jacob / to goo to Mesopotamia vnto Laban / sonne of Bethuel the Sirien / and brother to Rebecca Jacobs & Esaus mother.

When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob / and sent him to Mesopotamia / to fetch him a wife thence / and that / as he blessed him ⟨p. xli⟩he gave him a charge saying: see thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan: and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother / & was gone unto Mesopotamia: and seeing also that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father: Then went he unto Ismael / and toke unto the wives which he had / Mahala the daughter of Ismael Abraham's son / the sister of Nabaioth to be his wife.