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Zeben entertaineth
and will keep me in this way
that I go, and will give me
bread to eat, and raiment to
put on,

21 So that I come again to
my fathers boufe in peace: then
fhall the LORD be my God.

12 And this ftone, which I have fet for a pillar, fhall be Gods houfe: and of all that thou fhalt give me, I will furely give the tenth unto thee.

CHAP. XXX. "Hen Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the raft.

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2 And he looked, and behold, a weliia the field, and lo, there were three flocks of theep lying by it for out of that well they watered the flocke: and a great ftone was upon the wells

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his mothers brother; that cob went near, and rolled t ftone from the wells mou and watered the flock of Let his mothers brother. 11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, lifted up his voice, and wept

12 And Jacob told Rach that he was her fathers brothes and that be was Rebekahs fo and the ran and told her fathe

13 And it came to pafs, wh Laban beard the tidings of cob his fifters fon, that he r to meet him, and embraced hi and kiffed him, and brought hi to his boufe. And he told L ban all these things.

14 And Labin faid to bia Surely thou art my bone and m defh: and he abode with hit, the space of a month.

Is And Laban (ald unto 3 And thither were all the cob, Becaufe thou art my bro flocks gathered: and they rolled ther, fhouldst thou therefor the ftone from the wells mouth, ferve me for nought? tell me, and watered the sheep, and put what fall thy wages be? the ftone again upon the wells mouth in his place."

4 And Jacob (aid unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they faid, Of Haran are we. 5 And be feid unto them, Know ye Laban the fon of Nahor? And they said, We know $1200.

6 And be faid unto them, 7s he well? And they faid, He is well: and behold, Rachel bis daughter cometh with the sheep.

7 And be fald, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattel fhould be gathered together: water ye the theep and go, and feed them.

8 And they faid, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the ftone from the wells mouth; then we water the sheep.

9 And while he yet fpake with them, Rachel came with Her fathers Cheep: for the kept them

16 And Lsban had two daugh kers: the name of the elder was cah, and the name of the younger was Richel.

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

18 And Jacob loved Rachelsa and fald, I will ferve thee fe wen years for Rachel thy youn ger daughter.

19 And Laban fald, It is bet ter that I give her to thee, than that I fhould give her to another man: abide with me.

20 And Jacob ferved feven years for Rachel and they feemed unto him but a few days for the love he had to her.

21 And Jacob fald unto L1 ban, Give me my wife (for my days are fulfilled) that I may to in unto her.

22 And Labin gathered toge her all the men of the place, and made a fest.

23 And it came to pafs in the To And it came to pala, when evening, that he took Lesh his Jacob w Rachel the daugh- daughter, and brought her to ter of Laban his mothers bream: and he went in unto her. rane, and the sheep of Laban 34 And Leben gave unto hie

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16 And Jacob came out of the field In the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and faid, Thou must come in unto me, for futely I bave hired thee with my fans mandrakes. And he lay with her that night. 17 And God hearked Lesh, and the conceived, bare Jacob the fifth fon.

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18 And Leah faid, God bath given me mine bire, because I bave given my maiden to my husband and the called bis name Ifachar.

19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the fixth fon.

30 And Leah fald, God hath ended me with a good dowry; now will my husband, dweli with me, becaufe I have born bim fix fons: add the called his Game Zebulun.

21 And afterwards the bare a daughter, and called her name Disab

11 And God remembred Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

23 And the conceived and bare a fon, and faid, God hath taken away my reproch.

24 And the called his name Jofeph, and fald, The LORD thall add to me another fon.

25 And it ceme to pafs, when Rachel had born Jofeph, that Jacob said unto Labin, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my

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36 For it was little whi thou hadft before I came, and is now increafed unto a mu tude, and the LORD bath b fed thee fince my coming now when thall I provide mine own boufe slfo?

31 And be fald, What the give thee? And Jacob fald, T Thalt not give me any thin if thou wilt do this thing me, I will again feed and k thy flock:

33 I will pafe through all ct to day, removing, fr thence all the fpeckled and fp ted cattel, and all the brow cattel among the theep, a the fpotted and fpeckled amo the goats: and of such fhall my hire.

33 So fhall my righteoufat, anfwer for me in time to com when it fhall come for bire before thy face: ever one that is not fpeckled an (potted amongst the goats, an brown amongst the theep, th hall be accounted foien wit me.

34 And Laban faid, Behold, would it might be according to thy word.

5. And he removed that day the be-goats, that were ring. raked, and fpotted, and all the the-goats that were fpeck led and fpotted, and every one that had fome white in it, and all the brown among the theep and gave them into the hand of his fone.

36 And he fet three days jour ney betwixt bimfelf and Jacob a sad Jacob fed the reft of L bans flocks.

37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the ha kel and chefourrees and pilled white ftrakes in them, and. made the white appear which was in the rode

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

21 So he fled with all that be bad, and he rose up, and paffed over the river, and fet his face toward the mount Gilesd.

as And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was filed. 23 And he took bis brethren with him, and purfued after him feven days journey, and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

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33 And Laban went into, cobs tent, and into Lesha and into the two maid-ferv tents, but he found them Then went be out of Leabs and entred into Rachels ten 34 Now Rachel bad t the images, and put then 24 And God came to Laban the camels furniture, and the Syrian in a dream by night, upon them: and Laban fea and faid unto him, Take heed ed all the tent, but found that thou fpeak not to Jacobot.

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35 And the faid to her fath 25 Then Laban overtook Let it not difplesfe my lord t Jacob, Now Jacob had pitched I cannot rife up before thes his tent in the mount: and Ls. the custom of women i ban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.

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36 And Jacob was wro and chode with Laban: and cob anfwered, and faid to Lab What is my trefpafs? What my fin that thou haft fo hot purfued after me?

17 Wherefore didit thou ze 37 Whereas thou haft feare) away fecretly, and flesi awayed all my fluff, what baft the from me and didft not tell me, found of all thy houthold-ftuf that I might have fent thee fet it here before my brethr away with mith, and with and thy brethren, that they m fongs, with tabret, and with judge betwixt us both. barp?

28 And haft not fuffered me to kifs my fons and my daughters? tbou haft now done foothly in fo doing.

38 Thefe twenty years have been with thee, thy ews a thy the goats have not caft et young, and the rame of th Block have Inot eaten.

29 It is in the power of my 39 That wisich was torn band to do you burt: but the beafts, I brought not unto ther God of your father (pake unto bare the lofs of it, of my bare me yeflernight, faying, Take thou did thou require it, whethe heed that thou fpeak not to ja-tolen by day, or ftolen by cob either good or bad. night.

30 And now though thou woul- 4 Thus I was, in the day the deft needs be gone, becsufe thou drought confumed me, and the fore longedft after thy fathers froft by night, and my fleep de houfe, yet wherefore haft thou parted from mine eyes. ftolen my gods?

31 And Jacob safwered and fald to Laban, Becaufe I was afrald: for I faid, Reradventure

41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy houfe, I ferved thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and fx years for thy cattol

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