Jacob's covenant with Laban. Chap. xxxi. go: for thou knoweft my service which I have done thee. 27 ¶ And Laban faid unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy fake. 28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it. 29 And he faid unto him, Thou knoweft how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me. He departeth from Laban. 41 And it came to pass, whenfoever the ftronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. 42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: fo the feebler were Laban's, and the ftronger Jacob's. 43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidfervants, and menfervants, and camels, and affes. CHAP. XXXI. Jacob departeth from Laban. 22 Laban purfueth him. 44 Their covenant at Galeed. ND he heard the words of Laban's A fons, faying, Jacob had taken a way all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all his glory. 30 For it was little which thou hadft be-1 fore I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath bleffed thee fince my coming: and now when fhall I provide for mine own house alfo? 31 And he faid, What shall I give thee? And Jacob faid, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock: 32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the fpeck-ward him as before. led and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the fheep, and the fpotted and fpeckled among the goats and of fuch fhall be my hire. 33 So fhall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it fhall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the theep, that fhall be counted ftolen with me. 34 And Laban faid, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word. 35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and fpotted, and all the the goats that were fpeckled and spotted, and every one that had fome white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his fons. 36 And he fet three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the reft of Laban's flocks. 37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chefnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. 38 And he fet the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks! came to drink, that they fhould conceive when they came to drink. 2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not to. 3 And the LORD faid unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. 4 And Jacob fent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, 5 And faid unto them, I fee your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me. 6 And ye know that with all my power I have ferved your father. 7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. 8 If he faid thus, The fpeckled fhall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare fpeckled: and if he said thus, The ringftraked fhall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked. 9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. To And it came to pafs at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and faw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringftraked, fpeckled, and grifled. 11, And the angel of God fpake unto me in a dream, faying, Jacob: And I faid, Here am I. 12 And he faid, Lift up now thine eyes, and fee, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringftraked, fpeckled, 39 And the flocks conceived before the and grifled: for I have seen all that Larods, and brought forth cattle ringftrak-ban doeth unto thee. ed, fpeckled, and fpotted. 13 I am the God of Beth-el, where 40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, thou anointed ft the pillar, and where and fet the faces of the flocks toward the thou vowedft a vow unto me: now arife, ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock get thee out from this land, and return of Laban; and he put his own flocks unto the land of thy kindred. by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle. 14 And Rachel and Leah answered and faid Laban purfueth Jacob. GENESIS. Laban and Jacob contend. faid unto him, Is there yet any portion.or 32 With whomfoever thou findeft thy inheritance for us in our father's houfe? gods, let him not live: before our bre 15 Are we not counted of him ftran- thren difcern thou what is thine with gers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew devoured alfo our money. not that Rachel had ftolen them. 16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is our's, and our children's now then, whatfoever God hath faid unto thee, do. 17 Then Jacob rofe up, and fet his fons and his wives upon camels; 18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the 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 fhear his fheep: and Rachel had ftolen the images that qwere her father's. 20 And Jacob ftole 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 rofe up, and paffed over the river, and fet his face toward the mount Gilead. 22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. 33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidfervants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. 34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and fat upon them. And Laban fearched all the tent, but found them not. 35 And the faid to her father, Let it not difplease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the cuftom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images. 36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and faid to Laban, What is my trefpafs? what is my fin, that thou haft fo hotly purfued after me? 37 Whereas thou haft fearched all my ftuff, what haft thou found of all thy houfhold ftuff? fet it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may jour-judge betwixt us both. 23 And he took his brethren with him, and purfued after him feven days' ney; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead. 24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and faid unto him, Take heed that thou fpeak not to Jacob either good or bad. 25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead. 26 And Laban faid to Jacob, What haft thou done, that thou haft ftolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the fword? 27 Wherefore didft thou flee away fecretly, and fteal away from me; and didft not tell me, that I might have fent thee away with mirth, and with fongs, with tabret, and with harp? 28 And haft not fuffered me to kifs my fons and my daughters? thou haft 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 ipake unto me yesternight, faying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 30 And now, though thou wouldeft needs be gone, becaufe thou fore longedft after thy father's houfe, yet wherefore haft thou ftolen my gods? 31 And Jacob answered and faid to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldeft take by force thy daughters from me. 38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not caft their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. 39 That which was torn of beafs I brought not unto thee; I bare the lofs of it; of my hand didft thou require it, whether ftolen by day, or ftolen by night. 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought confumed me, and the froft by night; and my fleep departed from mine eyes. 41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and fix years for thy cattle and thou haft changed my wages ten times. 42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Ifaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath feen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yefternight. 43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, Thefe daughters are my daughters, and thefe children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou feeft is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born? 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. 46 And Chap. xxxii. Facob's vifions His prefent to Efau. 46 And Jacob faid unto his brethren, diftreffed: and he divided the people Gather ftones; and they took ftones, and that was with him, and the flocks, and made an heap: and they did eat there herds, and the camels, into two bands; upon the heap. 8 And faid, If Efau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left fhall efcape. 47 And Laban called it Jegar-fahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. 48 And Laban faid, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; 49 And Mizpah; for he faid, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are abfent one from another. 50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives befide my daughters, no man is with us; fee, God is witnefs betwixt me and thee. 51 And Laban faid to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have caft betwixt me and thee; 52 This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pafs over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob fware by the fear of his father Ifaac. 54 Then Jacob offered facrifice 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 rofe up, and kiffed his fons and his daughters, and bleffed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place. CHAP. XXXII. I Jacob's vision. 3 His meffage, 13 and prefent to Efau. 24 Wrestling with an angel be is called Ifrael. AND Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2 And when Jacob faw them, he said, This is God's hoft: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. 31 And Jacob fent meffengers before him to Efau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom. 4 And he commanded them, faying, Thus fhall ye fpeak unto my lord Efau ; Thy fervant Jacob faith thus, I have fojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now: 5 And I have oxen, and affes, flocks, and menfervants, and womenfervants: and I have fent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy fight. 6 And the meffengers returned to Jacob, faying, We came to thy brother Efau, and alfo he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and 9 And Jacob faid, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Ifaac, the Lord which faidft unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou haft fhewed unto thy fervant; for with my staff I paffed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands. 11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Efau; for I fear him, left he will come and fmite me, and the mother with the children. 12 And thou faidft, I will furely do thee good, and make thy feed as the fand of the fea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. 13 ¶ And he lodged there that fame night; and took of that which came to his hand a prefent for Esau his brother; 14 Two hundred fhe goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she affes, and ten foles. 16 And he delivered them into the hand of his fervants, every drove by themfelves; and he said unto his fervants, Pafs over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. 17 And he commanded the foremost, faying, When Efau my brother meeteth thee, and afketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whofe are thefe before thee? 18 Then thou shalt fay, They be thy fervant Jacob's; it is a prefent fent unto my lord Efau: and,behold, also he is behind us. 19 And fo commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, faying, On this manner fhall ye fpeak unto Efau, when ye find him. 20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy fervant Jacob is behind us. For he faid, I will appease him with the prefent that goeth before me, and afterward I will fee his face; peradventure he will accept of me. 21 So went the prefent over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company. 22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenfervants, and his eleven fons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. Jacob's and Efau's kind meeting. GENESIS. Jacob buildeth an altar. 23 And he took them, and sent them 8 And he faid, What meanest thou over the brook, and fent over that he had. by all this drove which I met? and he 24 ¶ And Jacob was left alone; and faid, Thefe are to find grace in the fight there wrestled a man with him until the of my lord. breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 26 And he faid, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he faid, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 And he faid unto him, What is thy name? and he faid, Jacob. 28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Ifrael: for as a prince haft thou power with God and with men, and haft prevailed. 29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name: And he faid, Wherefore is it that thou doft afk after my name? and he bleffed him there. 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have feen God face to face, and my life is preferved. 31 And as he paffed over Penuel the fun rofe upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. 32 Therefore the children of Ifrael eat not of the finew which fhrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the finew that shrank. CHAP. XXXIII. The kindness of Jacob and Efau at their meeting. 18 Jacob buyeth a field at Shalem, and buildeth an altar. AND Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Efau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. 2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremoft, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermoft. 9 And Efau faid, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou haft unto thyfelf. 10 And Jacob faid, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy fight, then receive my prefent at my hand: for therefore I have feen thy face, as though I had feen the face of God, and thou waft pleased with me. 11 Take, I pray thee, my bleffing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it. 12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee. 13 And he faid unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men fhould overdrive them one day, all the flock will die. 14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his fervant: and I will lead on foftly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir. 15 And Efau faid, Let me now leave with thee fome of the folk that are with me: And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the fight of my lord. 16 So Efau returned that day on his way unto Seir. 17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. 18 And Jacob came to Shalem a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city. 19 And he bought a parcel of a field, 3 And he paffed over before them, where he had spread his tent, at the hand and bowed himself to the ground seven of the children of Hamor, Shechem's fatimes, until he came near to his brother.ther, før an hundred pieces of money. 4 And Efau ran to meet him, and em- 20 And he erected there an altar, and braced him, and fell on his neck, and called it El-elohe-Ifrael. kiffed him and they wept. 5 And he lifted up his eyes, and faw the women and the children; and he faid, Who are thofe with thee? And he CHAP. XXXIV. 1 Dinah ravished. 20 The Shechemites are circumcifed, 25 flain by the fons of Jacob, 27 and their city spoiled. faid, The children which God hath gra- AND Dinah the daughter of Leah, ciously given thy servant. 6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themfelves. 7 And Leah alfo with her children came near, and bowed themfelves: and after came Jofeph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. which he bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2 And when Shechem the fon of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, faw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. 3 And his foul clave unto Dinah the daughter Dinah ravished. Chap. xxxv. The Shechemites flain, &c. daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damfel, and spake kindly unto the damfel. 4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, faying, Get me this damfel to wife. 5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his fons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come. 6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him. 7 And the fons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Ifrael in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. 8 And Hamor communed with them, faying, The foul of my fon Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife. 9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you. 10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land fhall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get ye poffeffions therein. II And Shechem faid unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give. 12 Afk me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye fhall fay unto me: but give me the damfel to wife. 13 And the fons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and faid, Because he had defiled Dinah their fifter: 14 And they faid unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our fifter to one that is uncircumcifed; for that were a reproach unto us: 15 But in this will we confent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised; 16 Then will we give our danghters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. 17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcifed; then we will take our daughter, and we will be gone. 18 And their words pleafed Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's fon. 19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father. 20.¶ And Hamor and Shechem his fon came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, faying, 21 Thefe men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. 22 Only herein will the men confent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcifed, as they are circumcised. 23 Shall not their cattle and their fubftance and every beast of their's be our's? only let us confent unto them, and they will dwell with us. 24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his fon hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcifed, all that went out of the gate of his city. 25 T And it came to pass on the third day, when they were fore, that two of the fons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his fword, and came unto the city boldly, and flew all the males. 26 And they flew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the fword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out. 27 ¶ The fons of Jacob came upon the flain, and fpoiled the city, because they had defiled their fifter. 28 They took their fheep, and their oxen, and their affes, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, 29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house. 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to ftink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they fhall gather themfelves together against me, and flay me; and I fhall be destroyed, I and my house. 31 And they faid, Should he deal with 1 God fendeth Jacob to Beth-el. AND God faid unto Jacob, Arife, go 2 ¶ Then Jacob faid unto his houfhold, and to all that were with him, Put away the ftrange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: C 2 3 And |