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And Lot said vnto them, Oh not so, my Lord.

So Abraham prayed vnto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-seruants, and they bare children.

And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that heare, will laugh with me.

And Abraham said, My sonne, God will prouide himselfe a lambe for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

So Abraham returned vnto his yong men, and they rose vp, and went together to Beer-sheba, and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.

And she made haste, & let downe her pitcher from her shoulder, and saide, Drinke, and I will giue thy camels drinke also: so I dranke, and she made the camels drinke also.

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? and shee went to enquire of the LORD.

And it came to passe that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dimme, so that he could not see, hee called Esau his eldest son, and said vnto him, My sonne. And hee said vnto him, Behold, here am I.

And Isaac said vnto his sonne, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my sonne? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me.

And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairie, as his brother Esaus hands: So he blessed him.

So that I come againe to my fathers house in peace: then shall the LORD be my God.

And Laban said, It must not be so done in our countrey, to giue the yonger, before the first borne.

And Iacob did so, and fulfilled her weeke: and he gaue him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

So shall my righteousnesse answere for mee in time to come, when it shall come for my hire, before thy face: euery one that is not speckled and spotted amongst the goates, and browne amongst the sheepe, that shalbe counted stollen with me.

But when the cattel were feeble, hee put them not in: so the feebler were Labans, and the stronger Iacobs.

So hee fled with all that hee had, and he rose vp and passed ouer the Riuer, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

And hast not suffered me to kisse my sonnes and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.

And Iacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Iacob answered and said to Laban, what is my trespasse? what is my sinne, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droues, saying, On this maner shal you speake vnto Esau, when you find him.

So went the present ouer before him: and himselfe lodged that night in the company.