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Whyle he yet talked with them, Rachel came with hir fathers shepe, for she kepte ye shepe.

Holde out this weke, & I will geue the this also, for the seruyce yt thou shalt do me yet seuen yeares more.

So he laye with Rachel also, & loued Rachel more the Lea, and serued him yet seuen yeares more.

She coceaued yet agayne, and bare a sonne, and sayde: Now wyll my hußbande kepe me company agayne, for I haue borne him thre sonnes, therfore called she his name Leui.

Lea conceaued yet agayne, and bare Iacob the sixte sonne,

and she called him Ioseph, and sayde: God geue me yet another sonne.

But he sayde vnto him: My lorde, thou knowest that I haue tender children by me, and small and greate catell also, which are yet but yonge: yf they shulde be dryue ouer in one daye, the whole flocke wolde dye.

Esau sayde: Yet wil I leaue some of my people with the. He answered: What nede is it? Let me but onely fynde grace in the sight of my lorde.

And he departed from Bethel: and whan he was yet a felde brode from Ephrath, Rachel traueyled, & the byrth came harde vpon hir.

Then sayde his brethre vnto him: Shalt thou be or kinge, and haue domynio ouer vs? And they hated him yet ye more, because of his dreame, & his wordes.

And he had yet another dreame, which he tolde his brethre, & saide: Beholde, I had yet another dreame: Me thought ye Sonne & ye Moone & eleuen starres made obeisauce to me.

She proceaded yet further, & bare a sonne, who she called Sela. And wha she had borne him, she left of bearinge.

They answered: We haue dreamed, and haue no man to declare it vnto vs. Ioseph sayde: Interpretinge belongeth vnto God, but tell it me yet.

Neuertheles though he knewe them, yet knewe they not him.

but are twolue brethren the sonnes of oure father: one is awaye, and the yongest is yet this daye wt oure father in the lande of Canaan,

Israel sayde: Wherfore haue ye done this euell vnto me, to tell ye man, that ye had yet a brother?

They answered: The man enquered so strately of vs and of oure kynrede, & sayde: Is youre father yet a lyue? Haue ye yet a brother? Then tolde we him, as he axed vs. How coulde we knowe, that he wolde saye: brynge youre brother downe wt you?

But he welcomed them curteously, and sayde: Is youre father, (that olde man which ye tolde me of) in good health? Is he yet alyue?

They answered: Thy seruaunt oure father is in good health, and is yet alyue. And they bowed them selues, and fell downe before him.

And Iuda wente with his brethren vnto Iosephs house (for he was there yet) and they fell before him on the groude.