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And the Lord appeared to him, and said: Go not down into Egypt, but stay in the land that I shall tell thee.

But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the herdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the name of the well, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.

That thou do us no harm, as we on our part have touched nothing of thine, nor have done any thing to hurt thee; but with peace have sent thee away, increased with the blessing of the Lord.

Which when he had carried in, he said: My father? But he answered: I hear. Who art thou, my son?

He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said: The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands, are the hands of Esau.

But he said again: Rightly is his name called Jacob; for he hath supplanted me lo this second time: My birthright he took away before, and now this second time he hath stolen away my blessing. And again he said to his father: Hast thou not reserved me also a blessing?

But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bathuel, thy mother’s father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban, thy uncle.

But Jacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran.

And trembling, he said: How terrible is this place? this is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.

And he told her that he was her father’s brother, and the son of Rebecca: but she went in haste and told her father.

But Lia was blear eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a beautiful countenance.

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.

And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.

But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.

But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how great thy possession hath been in my hands.

Thou hadst but little before I came to thee, and now thou art become rich: and the Lord hath blessed thee at my coming. It is reasonable, therefore, that I should now provide also for my own house.

And Laban said: What shall I give thee? But he said: I require nothing; but if thou wilt do what I demand, I will feed and keep thy sheep again.

And Jacob took green rods of poplar, and of almond, and of plane trees, and pilled them in part: so when the bark was taken off, in the parts that were pilled, there appeared whiteness: but the parts that were whole, remained green: and by this means the colour was divers.

But when the later coming was, and the last conceiving, he did not put them. And those that were lateward, became Laban’s; and they of the first time, Jacob’s.

But after that he had heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s, and being enriched by his substance is become great.