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day, and separate from them all the sheepe with fathers, and to thy kinred, and I wilbe with thee.
litle spots and great spots, and al blacke lambes 4 Therefore Iaakob sent and called Rahel and Leah
among the sheepe, and the great spotted, and to the fielde vnto his flocke. 5 Then sayde hee
litle spotted among the goates: and it shalbe my vnto them, I see your fathers countenance, that
wages. 33 So shall my righteousnesse answere for it is not towardes me as it was wont, and the God
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me hereafter, when it shall come for my rewarde of my father hath bene with me. And yee knowe
before thy face, and euery one that hath not that I haue serued your father with all my might.
litle or great spots among the goates, and blacke 7 But your father hath deceiued me, and changed
among the sheepe, the same shalbe theft with my wagestennetimes: butGodsuffredhimnotto
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me. 34 Then Laban sayde, Goe to, woulde God it hurtme. Ifhethussayd, Thespottedshallbethy
might be according to thy saying. 35 Therefore wages, then all the sheepe bare spotted: and if he
he tooke out the same day the hee goates that sayd thus, the party coloured shalbe thy rewarde,
were partie coloured and with great spots, and then bare all the sheepe particoloured. 9 Thus
all the shee goates with litle and great spots, and hath God taken away your fathers substance, and
all that had white in them, and all the blacke giuen it me. 10 For in ramming time I lifted vp
among the sheepe, and put them in the keeping mine eyes and saw in a dreame, and beholde,
of his sonnes. 36 And hee set three dayes iourney ye hee goates leaped vpon the shee goates, that
betweene himselfe and Iaakob. And Iaakob kept were partie coloured with litle and great spots
the rest of Labans sheepe. 37 Then Iaakob tooke spotted. 11 And the Angel of God sayde to mee
rods of greene popular, and of hasell, and of the in a dreame, Iaakob. And I answered, Lo, I am
chesnut tree, and pilled white strakes in them, here. 12 And he sayde, Lift vp nowe thine eyes,
and made the white appeare in the rods. 38 Then and see all the hee goates leaping vpon ye shee
he put the rods, which he had pilled, in the goates that are partie coloured, spotted with litle
gutters and watering troughes, when the sheepe and great spots: for I haue seene all that Laban
came to drink, before the sheepe. (for they doeth vnto thee. 13 I am the God of Beth-el, where
thou anoyntedst the pillar, where thou vowedst
were in heate, when they came to drinke) 39 And a vowe vnto me. Nowe arise, get thee out of
the sheepe were in heate before the rods, and this countrey and returne vnto ye land where
afterward brought forth yong of partie colour, thou wast borne. 14 Then answered Rahel and
and with small and great spots. 40 And Iaakob Leah, and sayde vnto him, Haue wee any more
parted these lambes, and turned the faces of the porcion and inheritance in our fathers house?
flocke towardes these lambes partie coloured and 15 Doeth not he count vs as strangers? for he
all maner of blacke, among the sheepe of Laban: hath solde vs, and hath eaten vp and consumed
so hee put his owne flockes by themselues, and our money. 16 Therefore all the riches, which
put them not with Labans flocke. 41 And in euery God hath taken from our father, is ours and our
ramming time of the stronger sheepe, Iaakob childrens: nowe then whatsoeuer God hath saide
layde the rods before the eyes of the sheepe in vnto thee, doe it. 17 Then Iaakob rose vp, and set
the gutters, that they might conceiue before the his sonnes and his wiues vpon camels. 18 And he
rods. 42 But when the sheepe were feeble, hee caried away all his flockes, and al his substance
put them not in: and so the feebler were Labans, which he had gotten, to wit, his riches, which he
and the stronger Iaakobs. 43 So the man increased had gotten in Padan Aram, to goe to Izhak his
exceedingly, and had many flockes, and maide father vnto the land of Canaan. 19 Whe Laban
seruantes, and men seruants, and camels and was gone to shere his sheepe, Then Rahel stole
asses. her fathers idoles. 20 Thus Iaakob stole away
31 ye heart of Laban the Aramite: for he told him
not that he fled.
So fled he with all that he
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1 Now he heard the words of Labans sonnes, had, and he rose vp, and passed the riuer, and
saying, Iaakob hath taken away all that was our set his face towarde mount Gilead. 22 And the
fathers, and of our fathers goods hath he got- third day after was it told Laban, that Iaakob
ten all this honour. 2 Also Iaakob beheld the fled. 23 Then he tooke his brethren with him,
countenance of Laban, that it was not towards and followed after him seuen dayes iourney, and
him as in times past: 3 And the Lord had said ouertooke him at mount Gilead. 24 And God came
vnto Iaakob, Turne againe into the lande of thy to Laban the Aramite in a dreame by night, and