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sayde vnto him, Take heede that thou speake not in the day consumed with heate, and with frost
to Iaakob ought saue good. 25 Then Laban ouer- in the night, and my sleepe departed from mine
tooke Iaakob, and Iaakob had pitched his tent eyes. 41 Thus haue I bene twentie yeere in thine
in the mount: and Laban also with his brethren house, and serued thee fourteene yeeres for thy
pitched vpon mount Gilead. 26 Then Laban sayde two daughters, and sixe yeeres for thy sheepe,
to Iaakob, What hast thou done? thou hast and thou hast changed my wages tenne times.
euen stolen away mine heart and caried away 42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abra-
my daughters as though they had bene taken ham, and the feare of Izhak had bene with me,
captiues with the sworde. 27 Wherfore diddest surely thou haddest sent me away nowe emptie:
thou flie so secretly and steale away from me, and but God behelde my tribulation, and the labour
diddest not tel me, that I might haue sent thee of mine hads, and rebuked thee yester night.
foorth with mirth and with songs, with timbrel 43 Then Laban answered, and saide vnto Iaakob,
and with harpe? 28 But thou hast not suffered These daughters are my daughters, and these
me to kisse my sonnes and my daughters: nowe sonnes are my sonnes, and these sheepe are my
thou hast done foolishly in doing so. 29 I am sheepe, and all that thou seest, is mine, and what
able to do you euill: but the God of your father can I doe this day vnto these my daughters, or
spake vnto me yesternight, saying, Take heed to their sonnes which they haue borne? 44 Nowe
that thou speake not to Iaakob ought saue good. therefore come and let vs make a couenant, I
30 Nowe though thou wentest thy way, because and thou, which may be a witnes betweene me
thou greatly longedst after thy fathers house, yet and thee. 45 Then tooke Iaakob a stone, and set
wherefore hast thou stollen my gods? 31 Then it vp as a pillar: 46 And Iaakob sayde vnto his
Iaakob answered, and said to Laban, Because I brethren, Gather stones: who brought stones,
was afraid, and thought that thou wouldest haue and made an heape, and they did eate there
taken thy daughters from me. 32 But with whome vpon the heape. 47 And Laban called it Iegar-
thou findest thy gods, let him not liue. Search sahadutha, and Iaakob called it Galeed. 48 For
thou before our brethre what I haue of thine, Laban sayd, This heape is witnesse betweene me
and take it to thee, (but Iaakob wist not that and thee this day: therefore he called the name
Rahel had stolen them) 33 Then came Laban into of it Galeed. 49 Also he called it Mizpah, because
Iaakobs tent, and into Leahs tent, and into the he said, The Lord looke betweene me and thee,
two maides tentes, but founde them not. So hee when we shalbe departed one from another, 50 If
went out of Leahs tent, and entred into Rahels thou shalt vexe my daughters, or shalt take wiues
tent. 34 (Nowe Rahel had taken the idoles, and put beside my daughters: there is no man with vs,
them in the camels litter and sate downe vpon beholde, God is witnesse betweene me and thee.
them) and Laban searched al the tent, but found 51 Moreouer Laban sayd to Iaakob, Beholde this
them not. 35 Then said she to her father, My heape, and behold the pillar, which I haue set
Lord, be not angrie that I cannot rise vp before betweene me and thee, 52 This heape shall be
thee: for the custome of women is vpon me: so witnesse, and the pillar shall be witnesse, that I
he searched, but found not the idoles. 36 The will not come ouer this heape to thee, and that
Iaakob was wroth, and chode with Laban: Iaakob thou shalt not passe ouer this heape and this
also answered and sayd to Laban, What haue I pillar vnto me for euill. 53 The God of Abraham,
trespassed? what haue I offended, that thou hast and the God of Nabor, and the God of their father
pursued after me? 37 Seeing thou hast searched be iudge betweene vs: But Iaakob sware by the
all my stuffe, what hast thou foud of all thine feare of his father Izhak. 54 Then Iaakob did
houshold stuffe? put it here before my brethren offer a sacrifice vpon the mount, and called his
and thy brethren, that they may iudge betweene brethren to eate bread. and they did eate bread,
vs both. 38 This twenty yere I haue bin with and taried all night in the mount. 55 And earely in
thee: thine ewes and thy goates haue not cast the morning Laban rose vp and kissed his sonnes
their yong, and the rammes of thy flocke haue and his daughters, and blessed them, and Laban
I not eaten. 39 Whatsoeuer was torne of beasts, departing, went vnto his place againe.
I brought it not vnto thee, but made it good my
selfe: of mine hand diddest thou require it, were 32
it stollen by day or stollen by night. 40 I was
1 Nowe Iaakob went forth on his iourney and