Jubilees 27:1-27

¹The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebecca in a dream, and Rebecca sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him: 'Look, Esau your brother is going to take vengeance on you so as to kill you.

²Now therefore, my son, obey my voice, and arise and flee to Laban, my brother, to Haran, and stay with him a few days until your brother's anger turns away, and he removes his anger from you, and forgets all that you have done; then I will send and bring you back from there.'

³And Jacob said: 'I am not afraid; if he wishes to kill me, I will kill him.' But she said to him: 'Let me not be bereft of both my sons on one day.'

⁴And Jacob said to Rebecca his mother: 'Look, you know that my father has become old, and does not see because his eyes are dull, and if I leave him it will be evil in his sight, because I leave him and go away from you, and my father will be angry, and will curse me. I will not go; only when he sends me will I go.'

⁵And Rebecca said to Jacob: 'I will go in and speak to him, and he will send you away.'

⁶And Rebecca went in and said to Isaac: 'I loathe my life because of the two daughters of Heth, whom Esau has taken as wives; and if Jacob takes a wife from among the daughters of the land such as these, why should I go on living, for the daughters of Canaan are evil.'

⁷And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and admonished him and said to him: 'Do not take a wife from any of the daughters of Canaan; arise and go to Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take a wife from there from among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

⁸And may God Almighty bless you and increase and multiply you so that you may become a company of nations, and may He give you the blessings of my father Abraham, to you and to your seed after you, that you may inherit the land of your sojournings and all the land which God gave to Abraham: go, my son, in peace.'

⁹And Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Mesopotamia, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebecca, Jacob's mother.

¹⁰And it came to pass, after Jacob had arisen to go to Mesopotamia, that the spirit of Rebecca was grieved after her son, and she wept.

¹¹And Isaac said to Rebecca: 'My sister, do not weep on account of Jacob, my son; for he goes in peace, and in peace he will return.

¹²The Most High God will preserve him from all evil, and will be with him; for He will not forsake him all his days.

¹³For I know that his ways will be prospered in all things wherever he goes, until he returns in peace to us, and we see him in peace.

¹⁴Do not fear on his account, my sister, for he is on the upright path and he is a perfect man: and he is faithful and will not perish. Do not weep.'

¹⁵And Isaac comforted Rebecca on account of her son Jacob, and blessed him.

¹⁶And Jacob went from the Well of the Oath to go to Haran in the first year of the second week in the forty-fourth jubilee, and he came to Luz on the mountains, that is, Bethel, on the new moon of the first month of this week, [2115 A.M.] and he came to the place at evening and turned from the way to the west of the road that night: and he slept there, for the sun had set.

¹⁷And he took one of the stones of that place and laid it at his head under the tree, and he was journeying alone, and he slept.

¹⁸And he dreamed that night, and behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven, and behold, the angels of the Lord ascended and descended on it: and behold, the Lord stood upon it.

¹⁹And He spoke to Jacob and said: 'I am the Lord God of Abraham, your father, and the God of Isaac; the land on which you are sleeping, to you I will give it, and to your seed after you.

²⁰And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall increase to the west and to the east, to the north and the south, and in you and in your seed shall all the families of the nations be blessed.

²¹And behold, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, and I will bring you again into this land in peace; for I will not leave you until I do everything that I have told you of.'

²²And Jacob awoke from his sleep, and said, 'Truly this place is the house of the Lord, and I did not know it.' And he was afraid and said: 'Dreadful is this place, which is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.'

²³And Jacob arose early in the morning, and took the stone which he had put under his head and set it up as a pillar for a sign, and he poured oil upon the top of it.

²⁴And he called the name of that place Bethel; but the name of the place was Luz at first.

²⁵And Jacob vowed a vow to the Lord, saying: 'If the Lord will be with me, and will keep me on this way that I go, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then shall the Lord be my God,

²⁶and this stone which I have set up as a pillar for a sign in this place shall be the Lord's house, and of all that You give me, I will give the tenth to You, my God.'

²⁷And Jacob vowed a vow to the Lord, saying: 'If the Lord will be with me, and will keep me on this way that I go, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then shall the Lord be my God, and this stone which I have set up as a pillar for a sign in this place shall be the Lord's house, and of all that You give me, I will give the tenth to You, my God.'