surely I have hired thee with my son's man-himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of drakes. And he lay with her that night. Laban's flocks.

17 ¶ And God hearkened unto Leah, and 37 And Jacob took him rods of green she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son. poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut-tree, 18 And Leah said, God hath given me my and pilled white streaks in them, and made hire, because I have given my maiden to my the white appear which was in the rods. husband: and she called his name Issachar. 38 And he set the rods which he had pilled 19 And Leah conceived again, and bare before the flocks in the gutters in the waterJacob the sixth son. ing-troughs, when the flocks came to drink, 20 And Leah said, God hath endowed me that they should conceive when they came to with a good dowry; now will my husband drink. dwell with me, because I have born him six 39 And the flocks conceived before the sons: and she called his name Zebulun. rods, and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, 21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, speckled and spotted. and called her name Dinah.

40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle. 41 And it came to pass, whensoever the

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

24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son. stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid 25 And it came to pass, when Rachel the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto La-gutters, that they might conceive among the ban, Send me away, that I may go unto rods. mine own place, and to my country.

26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go; for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

22 And Godremembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry:

42 But when the cattle were feeble, he 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.

for I have learned by experience that the AND he heard the words of Laban's sons,

hath blessed

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.

28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.

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

3¶ And the LORD said unto Jacob, Re

I came, and it is now increased unto a multi-turn unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

tude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now, when shall I provide for mine own house also?

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

31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing. If thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock.

5 And said unto them, I see 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 served your father.

32 I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among 7 And your father hath deceived me, and the sheep, and the spotted and speckled a-changed my wages ten times: but God sufmong the goats; and of such shall be my fered him not to hurt me.

hire. 8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy 33 So shall my righteousness answer for wages; then all the cattle bare speckled me in time to come, when it shall come for and if he said thus, The ring-streaked shall be my hire before thy face: every one that is thy hire; then bare all the cattle ring-streaked, not speckled and spotted among the goats, 9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle and brown among the sheep, that shall be of your father, and given them to me. counted stolen with me.

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

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.

35 And he removed that day the he-goats that were ring-streaked and spotted, and all

the she-goats that we e speckled and spotted, Il And the angel of God spake unto me in and every one that had some white in it, and a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here all the brown among the sheep, and gave am I. them into the hand of his sons.

12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes and 36 And he set three days' journey betwixt see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle

are ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled: for adventure thou wouldest take by force thy I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee. daughters from me.

13 I am the God of Beth-el, where thou 32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, anointedst the pillar, and where thou vow-let him not live: before our brethren, discern edst a vow unto me now arise, get thee out thou what is thine with me, and take it to from this land, and return unto the land of thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had thy kindred. stolen them.

14 And Rachel and Leah answered and 33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or in- into Leah's tent, and into the two maid-cerheritance for us in our father's house? vants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

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

16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels:

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.

35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. 18 And he carried away all his cattle, and And he searched, but found not the images. all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle 36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with of his getting, which he had gotten in Pa-Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Ladan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the ban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, land of Canaan. that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

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 day's journey; and ibey overtook him in the mount Gilead.

37 Whereas thou last searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy householdstuff? 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 And God came to Laban the Syrian consumed me, and the frost by night; and in a dream by night, and said unto him, my sleep departed from mine eyes. Take heed that thou speak 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.

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.

42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had 26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast been with me, surely thou hadst sent me thou done, that thou hast stolen away una-away now empty. God hath seen my afflicwares to me, and carried away my daugh- tion, and the labour of my hands, and rebuters, as captives taken with the sword? ked thee yesternight.

27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, 43 And Laban answered and said unto and steal away from me, and didst not tell Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, me, that I might have sent thee away with and these children are my children, and these mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is harp ? mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

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 burt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 30 And now, though theu wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods

And Jacob answered and said to Laba, Eccause I was afraid: for I said, Fer

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 Jacob said unto his brethren, Gath er stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.

47 And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

48 And Labun said, This heap is a wit

There-I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.

ness between me and thee this day. fore was the name of it called Galeed; 49 And Mizpah: for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are good, and make thy seed as the sand of the absent one from another. sea, which cannot be numbered for multi

12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee

50 If thou shalt afflicty daughters, or if tude. thou shalt take other wives besides my daugh- 131 And he lodged there that same night; ters, (no man is with us ;) see, God is witness and took of that which came to his hand a betwixt me and thee. present for Esau his brother;

51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;

52 This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness that I will not pass 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 sware by the Fear of his father Isaac.

14 Two hundred she-goats and twenty hegoats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

15 Thirty milch-camels with their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.

16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou?

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

these before thee?

18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and behold, also he is behind us.

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.

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.

AND Jacob went on his

ND Jacob went on his way, and the an

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

20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.

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

21 So went the present over before him; and himself lodged that night in the company. 22 And he rose up that night, and took his

4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy ser-two wives, and his two women-servants, and vant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jab Laban, and stayed there until now: bok.

5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and 23 And he took them, and sent them over men-servants, and women-servants: and I the brook, and sent over that he had. have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.

24 ¶ And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

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

7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and dis-out of joint as he wrestled with him. tressed and he divided the people that was 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee camels, into two bands; go, except thou bless me."

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

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

28 And he said, Thy name shall be called

9 And Jacob said, O God of my father no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the hast thou power with God and with men, LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy and hast prevailed.

country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal 29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, well with thee; pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

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10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which theu hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now am become two bands.

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30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand

31 And as be passed over 1 enuel the

of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for rose upon him, and lie halted upon mist

32 Therefore the children of Israel eat hot of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the when he came from Padan-aram, and pitchhollow of the thigh, unto this day because ed his tent before the city. he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.

CHAP. XXXIII.

AND Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, ND Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.

20 And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.

CHAP. XXXIV.

2 And he put the handmaids and their chil-AND Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see dren foremost, and Leah and her children the daughters of the land. after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him and they wept.

2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

3 And his soul clave unto Dinah, the daughter of Jacob; and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.

4 And Shechem spake unto his father 5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wite. women, and the children, and said, Who are 5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled those with thee? And he said, The children Dinah his daughter (now his sons were which God hath graciously given thy servant. with his cattle in the field) and Jacob held 6 Then the handmaidens came near, they his peace until they were come. and their children, and they bowed themselves.

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

themselves.

6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

7 And the sons 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 Israel. in lying with 8 And he said, What meanest thou by all Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to this drove which I met? And he said, These be done. ure to find grace in the sight of my lord.

8 And Hamor communed with them, say

9 And Esau said, I have enough, my bro-ing, The soul of my son Shechem longeth ther; keep that thou hast unto thyself. for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.

10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God and thou wast pleased with me. 11 Take, pray thee, my blessing 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.

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 shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

11 And Shechem said unto her father, and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

13 And he said unto him. My lord know- 12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, eth that the children are tender, and the and I will give according as ye shall say un flocks and herds with young are with me; to me but give me the damsel to wife. and if men should overdrive them one day,] 13 ¶ And the sons of Jacob answered Sheall the flock will die. chem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, (because he had defiled Dinah their sister,)

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 endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.

14 And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised: for that were a reproach un

15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with to us: thee some of the folk that are with me. And

15 But in this will we consent unto you he said, What needeth it? let me find grace If ye will be as we be, that every male of in the sight of my lord. you be circumcised;

16 So Esau 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.

13 ¶ And Jacob came to Shalem, a city

16 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us; and we will dwell with you, and we will be come one people.

17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

18 And their words pleased Hamor, and gods which were in their hand, and all their Shechem Hamor's son. ear-rings which were in their ears; and Ja19 And the young man deferred not to do cob hid them under the oak which was by the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's Shechem. daughter and he was more honourable than 5 And they journeyed: and the terror of all the house of his father. God was upon the cities that were round 20 And Hamor and Shechem his son about them, and they did not pursue after came unto the gate of their city, and com- the sons of Jacob. muned with the men of their city, saying, 61 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in 21 These men are peaceable with us, the land of Canaan, (this. Beth-el.) he, therefore let them dwell in the land, and and all the people that were with him. trade therein; for the land, behold it is large 7 And he built there an altar, and called enough for them: let us take their daughters the place El-beth-el; because there God apto us for wives, and let us give them our peared unto him, when he fled from the face daughters. of his brother. 22 Only herein will the men consent unto 8¶ But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if and she was buried beneath Beth-el under every male among us be circumcised, as an oak and the name of it was called Allonthey are circumcised. bachuth.

23 Shall not their cattle, and their sub- 91 And God appeared unto Jacob again, stance, and every beast of theirs, be ours? when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessonly let us consent unto them, and they willed him. dwell with us.

10 And God said unto him, Thy name is 24 And unto Hamor, and unto Shechem Jacob: thy name shall not be called any his son, hearkened all that went out of the more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; gate of his city; and every male was circum-and he called his name Israel. cised, all that went out of the gate of bis city. 11 And God said unto him, I am God Al

25 ¶ And it came to pass on the third day, mighty; be fruitful and multiply: a nation, when they were sore, that two of the sons of and a company of nations, shall be of thee, Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, and kings shall come out of thy loins: took each man his sword, and came upon 12 And the land which gave Abraham the city boldly, and slew all the males. and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.

26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword; and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.

13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.

14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place

27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had dewhere he talked with him, even a pillar of stone; and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

filed their sister.

15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el.

16 And they journeyed from Beth-e! : and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, 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 stink. among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot ?

CHAP. XXXV. \

17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not, thou shalt have this son also.

18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died,) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.

19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem. 20 set a her grave:

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A to Bethel, and dwell there; and make that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this

there an altar unto God, that appeared unto day.

thee when thou fleddest from the face of 21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his Esau thy brother. tent beyond the tower of Edar.

2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

3 And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. 24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph and Bey 4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange jamin. ̧

23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.