¹ And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan:

² But 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.

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

⁴ And 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.

⁵ And 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.

⁶ And 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:

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

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

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

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

¹¹ And 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.

¹² And 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;

¹³ And 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.

¹⁴ And 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.

¹⁵ And 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.

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

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

¹⁸ And 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.

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

²⁰ And 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,

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

²² And 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.

¹ And Sara lived a hundred and twenty-seven years.

² And she died in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of Chanaan: and Abraham came to mourn and weep for her.

³ And after he rose up from the funeral obsequies, he spoke to the children of Heth, saying:

⁴ I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead.

⁵ The children of Heth answered, saying:

⁶ My Lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: bury thy dead in our principle sepulchers: and no man shall have power to hinder thee from burying thy dead in his sepulcher.

⁷ Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to wit the children of Heth:

⁸ And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my dead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor.

⁹ That he may give me the double cave, which he hath in the end of his field: for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before you, for a possession of a buryingplace.

¹⁰ Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of the city, saying:

¹¹ Let it not be so, my lord, but do thou rather hearken to what I say: The field I deliver to thee, and the cave that is therein, in the presence of the children of my people, bury thy dead.

¹² Abraham bowed down before the people of the land,

¹³ And he spoke to Ephron, in the presence of the people: I beseech thee to hear me: I will give money for the field: take it, and so I will bury my dead in it.

¹⁴ And Ephron answered:

¹⁵ My lord, hear me. The ground which thou desirest, is worth four hundred sicles of silver: this is the price between me and thee: but what is this? bury thy dead.

¹⁶ And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred sicles of silver of common current money.

¹⁷ And the field that before was Ephron's, wherein was the double cave, looking towards Mambre, both it and the cave, and all the trees thereof in all its limits round about,

¹⁸ Was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city.

¹⁹ And so Abraham buried Sara his wife, in a double cave of the field, that looked towards Mambre, this is Hebron in the land of Chanaan.

²⁰ And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the cave that was in it, for a possession to bury in, by the children of Heth.