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So he fled, & all that was his, gat vp, and passed ouer the water, & wente straight towarde the mount Gilead.

And he toke his brethre vnto him, and folowed after him seuen dayes iourney, and ouertoke him vpon the mount Gilead.

And Laba drew nye vnto Iacob. As for Iacob, he had pytched his tente vpon the mount. And Laban with his brethre pytched his tent also vpon the same mount Gilead.

and sayde vnto his brethren: Gather stones. And they toke the stones, and made an heape, & ate vpon the same heape.

And Laba called it Iegar Sahadutha, but Iacob called it Gilead: (either of them after the properte of his language.)

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, and the God of their fathers, be iudge betwene vs. And Iacob sware vnto him by the feare of his father Isaac.

And Iacob offred an offerynge vpon the mount, and called his brethre to eate bred. And whan they had eaten, they taried vpon the mount all night.

But vpon the morow Laban rose vp early, kyssed his childre & doughters, & blessed the, & departed, and came agayne vnto his place.

As for Iacob, he wente on his iourney, & the angels of God met him.

Iacob sent messaungers before him to his brother Esau in to the lande of Seir, of the felde of Edom,

And there he taried that night, and toke of soch as came to hande, a present vnto his brother Esau,

and put them in the handes of his seruauntes, euery flock by them selues, & sayde vnto them: Go ye forth before me, & put a space betwixte one flocke after the other,

Thou shalt saye: They be thy seruaunt Iacobs, which sendeth a present vnto his lorde Esau, and commeth behynde vs him self.

and rose vp in ye night, and toke his two wyues and the two maydens and his eleuen sonnes, and wente vnto the foorde of Iacob,

And whan he sawe yt he might not ouercome him, he touched the senowe of his thye, and ye senowe of his thye shrancke in wrestlinge with him.

And as he came ouer fro Peniel, ye Sonne rose vpo him, & he halted vpon his thye.

Iacob lift vp his eyes, & sawe his brother Esau comynge with foure hundreth men: and he deuyded his children vnto Lea vnto Rachel, and to both the maydes,

And he wente before them, and bowed him self to the grounde seuen tymes, tyll he came to his brother.

But Esau ranne to mete him, and enbraced him, and fell aboute his neck, & kyssed him, and wepte,

and lift vp his eyes, and sawe the wyues with the children, and sayde: What are these with the? He answered: They are the children, which God hath geuen vnto thy seruaunt.