Genesis 28:4-10 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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.

Genesis 28