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So that I come agayne vnto my fathers house in saftie: then shal the Lord be my God.

And they sayde: we may not vntyll all the flockes be brought together, and tyl they roule the stone from the welles mouth, and so we water our sheepe.

And Iacob dyd euen so, and passed out the weeke: and then he gaue hym Rachel his daughter to wyfe also.

So lay he by Rachel also, and loued Rachel more then Lea, and serued hym yet seuen yeres more.

So that she conceaued & bare a sonne: and sayde, God hath taken awaye my rebuke.

So shall my ryghteousnes aunswere for me in time to come: for it shal come for my rewarde before thy face. And euery one that is not specked and partie amongst the goates, & blacke amongst the sheepe, let it be compted theft in me.

And set three dayes iourney betwixte himselfe and Iacob: and so Iacob kept the rest of Labans sheepe.

And Iacob did seperate these lambes, and turned the faces of the sheepe whiche were in the flocke of Laban, towarde these ryngstraked, and al maner of blacke: and so put his owne flockes by them selues, and put them not with Labans cattell.

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

So fled he, and all that he had, and made hym selfe redy, and passed ouer the ryuer, and set his face strayght towarde the mounte Gilead.

And hast not suffred me to kysse my chyldren and my daughters? thou wast a foole nowe in so doyng.

Then sayde she to her father: my Lord, be not angry that I can not ryse vp before thee, for the custome of women is come vpon me. So searched he, but founde not those images.

And so commaunded he the seconde, and the thirde, and all that folowed the droues, saying: on this maner see that you speake vnto Esau when ye meete hym.

So went the present before hym: and he taryed al that night in the company.

And Iacob answered: Nay I pray thee, but if I haue founde grace in thy sight, receaue I pray thee my present of my hande: for I haue seene thy face, as though I had seene the face of God, and so thou hast receaued me to grace.

Oh take my blessyng that is brought thee: for God hath had mercy on me, and I haue inough. And so he compelled him, and he toke it,

So Esau went his way agayne that same day vnto Seir.

Aske freely of me both dowry and gyftes, and I wyll geue accordyng as ye say vnto me, so that ye geue me the damsell to wyfe.

But Iacob sayde to Simeon & Leui: ye haue troubled me, and made me to be abhorred of the inhabitours of the land of the Chanaanite and the Pherezite: and I beyng fewe in number, they shall gather the selues together against me, and slay me, and so shall I and my house be destroyed.

So came Iacob to Luz, whiche is in the lande of Chanaan (the same is Bethel) he and all the people that was with him.