Jubilees

And the words of Esau, his elder son, were told to Rebekah in a dream, and Rebekah sent and called her younger son Jacob and said to him:

"Behold, your brother will take vengeance on you with intent to kill you."

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise and flee to Laban, my brother, to Haran, and stay with him a few days until your brother's wrath passes and he removes his anger from you, and forgets everything you have done, then I will rescue you from there."

And Jacob said: "I am not afraid. If he wants to kill me, I will kill him."

But she said to him: "Do not let me be deprived of both my sons in one day."

And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother: "Behold, you know that my father has become old, and does not see because his eyes are dim, and if I leave him it will be evil in his eyes, because I leave him and depart from you, and my father will be angry, and will curse me. I will not go. Only when he sends me will I go."

And Rebekah said to Jacob: "I will go speak with him, and he will send you."

And Rebekah went and said to Isaac: "I hate my life because of the two daughters of Heth whom Esau has taken as wives. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of this land such as these, why should I continue to live? Because the daughters of Canaan are evil."

And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and admonished him, saying to him:

"Do not take any wife from the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take for yourself a wife from there, from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

And may God Almighty bless you, increase and multiply, so that you may become a group of nations, and give you the blessings of my father Abraham, to you and to your descendants after you, and may you inherit the land of your sojourning and all the land that God gave to Abraham. Go, my son, in peace."

And Isaac sent Jacob, and he went to Mesopotamia, to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob.

And it came to pass after Jacob arrived in Mesopotamia, that the spirit of Rebekah was grieved for her son, and she wept.

And Isaac said to Rebekah: "My sister, do not weep because of Jacob, my son, because he went in peace and in peace he will return.

The Most High God will preserve him from all evil, and will be with him, because He will not abandon him in all his days.

For I know that his days will be prosperous in all things wherever he walks, until he returns in peace to us, and we shall see him in peace.

Do not fear for him, my sister, because he is on the path of uprightness and he is a perfect man, and he is faithful and will not perish. Do not weep."

And Isaac comforted Rebekah concerning her son Jacob, and blessed him.

And Jacob went to the Well of the Oath to go to Haran in the first year of the second week of the forty-fourth jubilee, and he went to Luz in the mountains, which is Bethel, on the new moon of the first month of this week, and he arrived at the place in the evening and changed direction to the west of the road that night. And he slept there, because the sun had set.

And he took one of the stones of that place and laid it under a tree, and he was traveling alone, and slept.

And he dreamed that night, and behold, a ladder was set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven, and behold, the angels of the Lord were ascending and descending on it. And behold, the Lord was above it.

And He spoke with Jacob and said: "I am the Lord God of Abraham, your father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which you are sleeping, I will give it to you and to your descendants after you.

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

And behold, I am with you, and I will keep you wherever you go, and I will bring you again to this land in peace, because I will not leave you until I have done to you all that I have spoken to you."

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

And Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up as a pillar, and he poured oil on top of it. And he called that place Bethel, but the name of the place was Luz previously.

And Jacob made a vow with God, saying: "If the Lord will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothes to wear, so that I return to my father's house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God, and this stone which I have set up as a pillar and as a sign in this place shall be the house of the Lord, and of all that You give me I will give a tenth to You, my God."