לט ובבוקר הגיד יעקב ליצחק אביו את הנדר אשר נדר לה' ואת המראה אשר ראה, וכי בנה מזבח והכֵן הכל לזבח לעשות לפני ה' כאשר נדר, וכי בא לשאת אותו על חמור:
39 And in the morning Jacob told his father Isaac the vow which he had vowed to the Lord, and the vision which he had seen, and that he had built an altar, and that everything was ready for the sacrifice to be made before the Lord as he had vowed, and that he had come to set him on an ass.