[42] And it was reported in the twelfth chapter of the Torah, the statement: “And the Lord appeared to Abram—meaning Abraham—and said: ‘To your offspring I will give this land.’”

And it came in the seventeenth chapter thereof, this very text: “When Abraham was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him: ‘I am God Almighty; walk before Me and be blameless.’”

[43] And in the thirty-fifth chapter: “And God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram and blessed him. And God said to him: ‘Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.’ So He called his name Israel. And He said to him: ‘I am God Almighty,’” up to the statement: “Then God went up from him in the place where He spoke with him. And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He spoke with him.”

[44] And in the twenty-fourth chapter of Exodus [24:9-10]: “Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, and they saw the God of Israel and under His feet was something like a pavement of transparent blue sapphire, as clear as the sky itself. But He did not lay His hand upon the nobles of the children of Israel; so they saw God, and they ate and drank.”