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Jacob is entertained by Laban. GENESIS. He serves for Leah and Rachet. ban the son of Nahor? And tney said, We 25 And it came to pass, that in the know him. morning, behold, it was Leah : and he said 6 And he said unto them, Is he well? to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto And they said, He is well and behold, 'me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep. wherefore then hast thou beguiled me? 7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.

8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.

9 ¶ And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.

10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went Dear, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger efore the first-born.

27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also, for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

29 And Labangave to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah his handmaid, to be her maid.

30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb : but Rachel was barren.

32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son; and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon 12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was my affliction; now therefore my husband ber father's brother, and that he was Rebe-will love me.

kah's son; and she ran and told her father. 33 And she conceived again, and bare 13 And it came to pass when Laban a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, heard that I was hated, he hath therefore that he ran to meet him, and embraced given me this son also: and she called his him, and kissed him, and brought him to his name Simeon. house. And he told Laban all these things.

14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh: and he abode with him the space of a month.

15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?

16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

17 Leah was tender-eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well-favoured.

18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

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19 And Laban said, It is better that give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.

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34 And she conceived again, and bare son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have borne him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.

35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah, and left bearing.

CHAP. XXX.

AND when Rachel saw that she bare

Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel; and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear 20 And Jacob served seven years for Ra-upon my knees, that I may also have chilchel; and they seemed unto him but a few|dren by her. days, for the love he had to her.

21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife (for my days are fulfilled) that I may go in unto her.

22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought ber to him; and he went in unto her.

24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leab,Zilpah bis maid, for a bandmaid.

4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife and Jacob went in unto her. 5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.

6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

7 And Bilhah, Rachel's maid,conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.

8 And Rachel said, With great wrest

Rachel bears Joseph.

CHAP. XXX.

Tacob's covenant with Laban,

fings have I wrestled with my sister, and thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes I have prevailed: and she called his name tarry: for I have learned by experience Naphtali. that the LORD hath blessed me forthy sake. 28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.

9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah, her maid, and her Jacob to wife. gave

10 And Zilpah, Leah's maid,bare Ja

cob a son.

11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.

12 And Zilpah, Leah's maid,bare Jacob a second son.

13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.

29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy

cattle was with me.

30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now, when shall I provide for mine own house also?

31 And he said, What shall I give thee! And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me 14 T And Reuben went in the days of any thing. If thou wilt do this thing for me, wheat-harvest, and found mandrakes in I will again feed and keep thy flock: the field, and brought them unto his mo- 32 I will pass through all thy flock tother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give day, removing from thence all the speckme, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes. led and spotted cattle, and all the brown 15 And she said unto her, Is it a small cattle among the sheep, and the spotted matter that thou hast taken my husband? and speckled among the goats: and of and wouldest thou take away my son's such shall be my hire.

mandrakes also? And Rachel said, There- 33 So shall my righteousness answer for fore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy me in time to come, when it shall come son's mandrakes. for my hire before thy face: every one that

16 And Jacob came out of the field in is not speckled and spotted among the the evening, and Leah went out to meet goats, and brown among the sheep, that bim, and said, Thou must come in unto shall be counted stolen with me. me; for surely I have hired thee with my 34 And Laban said, Behold, I would son's mandrakes. And he lay with her it might be according to thy word. that night. 35 And he removed that day the he17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and goats that were ring-streaked and spotted, she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son. and all the she-goats that were speckled 18 And Leah said, God hath given me and spotted, and every one that had some my hire, because I have given my white in it, and all the brown among the maiden to my husband: and she called sheep, and gave them into the hands of his his name Issachar.

19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.

20 And Leah said, God hath endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons and she called his name Zebulun.

21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

sons.

36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

37 ¶ And Jacob took him rods of greca poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut-tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the 22 ¶ And God remembered Rachel, and watering-troughs when the flocks came to God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:

drink; that they should conceive when they came to drink.

39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted.

24 And she called his name Joseph; 40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and said, The LORD shall add to me and set the faces of the flocks toward the another son. ring-streaked, and all the brown in the 25 And it came to pass, when Rachel flock of Laban: and he put his own flocks had borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto by themselves, and put them not unto LaLaban, Send me away, that I may go unto ban's cattle. mine own place, and to my country.

41 And it came to pass whensoever the 26 Give me my wives and my children, stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob for whom I have served thee, and let me laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle go: for thou knowest my service which I in the gutters, that they might conceive have done thee. among the rods.

27 And Laban said unto him, I pray! 42 But when the cattle were feeble, he

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Jacob departs from Laban:

GENESIS.

put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maid-servants, and men-servants, and camels, and asses. CHAP. XXXI.

ND he heard the words of Laban's sons,

A saying, Jacob hath taken away all that

was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.

2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and behold, it was not toward him as before.

3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,

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and all his goods which he had gotten, tho cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram; for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.

20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

22 And it was told Laban on the third day,that Jacob was fled.

23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey: and they overtook him in the mount Gilead. 5 And said unto them, I see your fa- 24 And God came to Laban the Syrian ther's countenance, that it is not toward in a dream by night, and said unto him, me as before but the God of my father Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob hath been with me. either good or bad.

6 And ye know that with all my power

I have served your father.

25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren

7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times: but pitched in the mount of Gilead. God suffered him not to hurt me.

26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast 8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thou done, that thou hast stolen away unthy wages; then all the cattle bare speck-awares to me, and carried away my daughled: and if he said thus, The ring-streaked ters, as captives taken with the sword? shall be thy hire: then bare all the cattle ring-streaked.

9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled.

11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And said, Here am I.

27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp ?

28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons, and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.

29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes and see, all the rams which leap upon the 30 And now, though thou wouldest cattle are ring-streaked, speckled, and needs be gone, because thou sore longedst grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban after thy father's house; yet wherefore hast doeth unto thee. thou stolen my gods?

13 I am the God of Beth-el, where thou 31 And Jacob answered and said to anointedst the pillar, and where thou vow-Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, edst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee Peradventure thou wouldest take by force eut from this land, and return unto the land thy daughters from me.

of thy kindred. 32 With whomsoever thou findest thy 14 And Rachel and Leah answered, and gods, let him not live: before our brethren said unto him, Is there yet any portion or discern thou what is thine with me, and inheritance for us in our father's house? take it to thee: for Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.

15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two 16 For all the riches which God hath maid-servants' tents; but he found them taken from our father, that is ours, and our not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, children's: now then,whatsoever God hath and entered into Rachel's tent. said unto thee, do.

17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his spns and his wives upon camels;

18 And he carried away all his cattle,

34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.

Jacob's covenant with Laban:

CHAP. XXXII. His message and present to Esatt

35 And she said to her father, Let it 51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold not displease my lord that I cannot rise up this heap, and behold this pillar, which I before thee; for the custom of women is have cast betwixt me and thee; upon me. And he searched, but found 52 This heap be witness, and this pillar not the images. be witness, that I will not pass over this

36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass with Laban: and Jacob answered, and over this heap and this pillar unto me, for said to Laban, What is my trespass? what harm. is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy housebold-stuff? set it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.

38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

39 That which was torn of beasts, I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.

40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house: I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

53 The God of Abrahams, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the Fear of his father Isaac.

54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.

55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.

CHAP. XXXII.

AND Jacob went on his way, and the

angels of God met him.

2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there un

42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me til now: away now empty. God hath seen mine 5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, affliction, and the labour of my hands, and and men-servants, and women-servants: rebuked thee yesternight. and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may

43 And Laban answered, and said unto find grace in thy sight. Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, 6 And the messengers returned to and these children are my children, and Jacob, saying, We came to thy brothes these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou Esau, and also he cometh to meet theo seest is mine; and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have borne ?

44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

and four hundred men with him.

7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels into two bands;

8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, 9¶ And Jacob said, O God of my fa Gather stones; and they took stones, and ther Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, made a heap and they did eat there the LORD which saidst unto me, Return upon the heap. unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and 47 And Laban called it Jegar-sahadu-I will deal well with thee: tha: but Jacob called it Galeed:

10 I am not worthy of the least of all 48 And Laban said, This heap is a wit- the mercies, and of all the truth, which pess between me and thee this day. There- thou hast shewed unto thy servant: for fore was the name of it called Galeed: with my staff I passed over this Jordan, 49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD and now I am become two bands. watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: 50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or for I fear him, lest he will come and smite if thou shalt take other wives besides my me, and the mother with the children. daughters; no man is with us; see, God 12 And thou saidst, I will surely do is witness betwixt me and thee. thee good, and make thy seed as the sand

Jacob wrestles with an angel :

GENESIS. His kind meeting with Esan.

of the sea, which cannot be numbered for inultitude.

31 And as he passed over Penuel, the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his

13 And he lodged there that same thigh. night, and took of that which came to his 32 Therefore the children of Israel eat hand a present for Esau his brother; not of the sinew which shrank, which is 14 Two hundred she-goats and twenty upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank. CHAP. XXXIII.

rains,

15 Thirty milch camels with their colts,

forty king and ten bulls, twenty she-asses A, and behold, Esau came, and with ND Jacob lifted up his eyes, and look

and ten foals.

16 And he delivered them into the hand of him four hundred men. And he divided his servants, every drove by themselves; the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and said unto his servants, Pass over before and unto the two handmaids. me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. 2 And he put the handmaids and their 17 And he commanded the foremost, children foremost, and Leah and her chilsaying, When Esau my brother meeteth dren after, and Rachel and Joseph hinderthee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art most.

thou? and whither goest thou? and whose 3 And he passed over before them, and are these before thee? bowed himself to the ground seven times,

18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy until he came near to his brother. Cervant Jacob's: it is a present sent unto 4 And Esau ran to meet him, and emmy lord Esau: and behold also he is be-braced him, and fell on his neck, and kisshind us. ed him and they wept.

19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children, and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy ser

20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy vant. servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, 6 Then the handmaidens came near, I will appease him with the present that they and their children, and they bowed goeth before me, and afterward I will see themselves. his face; peradventure he will accept of me. 21 So went the present over before him; and himself lodged that night in the com

pany.

7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves; and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

22 And he rose up that night, and took 8 And he said, What meanest thou by all his two wives, and his two women-ser-this drove which I met? And he said, vants, and his eleven sons, and passed These are to find grace in the sight ofmy lord. ever the ford Jabbok. 9 And Esau said, I have enough, my

23 And he took them, and sent them over brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself. the brook, and sent over that he had. 10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, 24 And Jacob was left alone; and if now I have found grace in thy sight, then there wrestled a man with him, until the receive my present at my hand: for therebreaking of the day. fore I have seen thy face, as though I had

25 And when he saw that he prevailed seen the face of God, and thou wast pleasnot against him, he touched the hollow of ed with me.

his thigh and the hollow of Jacob's thigh 11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. is brought to thee; because God hath 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day dealt graciously with me, and because I breaketh And he said, I will not let thee have enough: and he urged him, and he go, except thou bless me. took it.

27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God, and with men, and hast prevailed.

29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name: And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

30 And Jacob called the name of the

12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.

13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me, and if men should over-drive them one day, all the flock will die.

14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to en

place Peniel: for I have seen God face to dure; until I come unto my lord unto Seir. face, and my life is preserved. 15 And Esau said, Let me now leave

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