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Ladder of Jacob 5

Vision of Bethel

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The first that stumbleth upon the steps . . . angels ascending and descending and faces in the midst of the steps: the Most High will raise up an heir of the descendants of thy brother Esau, and all the lords of the nations of the earth will accept it, who have done evil against thy seed, and will be given into his hand, and he will be hardly borne by them.

2But he beginneth to rule them with violence and to reign over them, and they cannot resist him, until the day when his decree goeth forth against them to serve the idols and to all them that appear in such a cause, and so many of thy race, so many to Thalkonagargael.

About Ladder of Jacob

An apocryphal or pseudepigraphal text — outside the canon of the Western churches, yet widely circulated among ancient Jews and Christians. English text: The Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament, The Ladder of Jacob (London: SPCK), M. R. James, 1920 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.

Source: The Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament, The Ladder of Jacob (London: SPCK), M. R. James (1920) · public domain