46 And Israel taking his journey, with all that he had, came to the well of the oath, and killing victims there to the God of his father Isaac,

² He heard him by a vision in the night calling him, and saying to him: Jacob, Jacob. And he answered him: Lo, here I am.

³ God said to him: I am the most mighty God of thy father: fear not, go down into Egypt, for I will make a great nation of thee there.

⁴ I will go down with thee thither, and will bring thee back again from thence: Joseph also shall put his hands upon thy eyes.

⁵ And Jacob rose up from the well of the oath: and his sons took him up, with their children and wives in the wagons, which Pharao had sent to carry the old man,

⁶ And all that he had in the land of Chanaan, and he came into Egypt with all his seed:

⁷ His sons, and grandsons, daughters, and all his offspring together.

¹⁵ My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:

¹⁶ And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.

¹⁷ Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long:

¹⁸ Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away.

¹⁹ Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.

²⁰ Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:

²¹ Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together shall be consumed; and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.

²² Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.

²³ Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

²⁴ The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him.

²⁵ Let thy father, and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.

²⁶ My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.

²⁷ For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

²⁸ She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.

²⁹ Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

³⁰ Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink of their cups.

³¹ Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,

³² But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.

³³ Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.

³⁴ And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep, when the stern is lost.

³⁵ And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake, and find wine again?

24 Seek not to be like evil men, neither desire to be with them:

² Because their mind studieth robberies, and their lips speak deceits.

³ By wisdom the house shall be built, and by prudence it shall be strengthened.

⁴ By instruction the storerooms shall be filled with all precious and most beautiful wealth.

⁵ A wise man is strong: and a knowing man, stout and valiant.