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and brynge me peaceably home agayne vnto my father: The shall the LORDE be my God,

and this stone that I haue set vp, shalbe an house of God: and all that thou geuest me, I wyl geue the the tenth therof.

Then sayde Rachel: God hath geuen sentence on my syde, and herde my voyce, and geue me a sonne, therfore called she him Dan.

Then sayde Rachel: God hath turned it with me, and my sister, and I haue gotte the vpperhande. And she called him Nephthali.

And God herde Lea, and she conceaued, and bare Iacob the fifth sonne,

& sayde: God hath rewarded me, because I gaue my mayden vnto my hußbande, and she called him Isachar.

and sayde: God hath endewed me with a good dowry. Now wyll my hußbande dwell with me agayne, for I haue borne him sixe sonnes, & she called him Zabulon.

Neuertheles God thought vpo Rachel, and herde her, and made her frutefull.

Then she conceaued, and bare a sonne, and sayde: God hath taken awaye my rebuke,

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

Laban sayde vnto him: Can I not fynde fauoure in thy sight? I perceaue, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.

and sayde vnto them: I se youre fathers countenaunce, that it is not towarde me like as yesterdaye and yeryesterdaye: but the God of my father hath bene with me.

And he hath disceaued me, and chaunged my wages now ten tymes. But God hath not suffred him, to do me harme.

Thus hath God with drawen youre fathers goodes from him, and geuen them vnto me.

And the angel of God sayde vnto me in a dreame: Iacob. And I answered: here am I.

I am ye God at Bethel, where thou dyddest anoynte the stone, & maydest a vowe there vnto me. Get the vp now, & departe out of this londe, & go agayne in to the londe of thy kynred.

Therfore hath God withdrawe or fathers riches from him vnto vs & oure children. What so euer now God hath sayde vnto the, that do.

But God came vnto Laban the Syrian in a dreame by night, & sayde vnto him: Be warre, that thou speake nothinge to Iacob but good.

that I coude haue done you euell: but youre fathers God saide yesterdaye vnto me: Bewarre, that thou speake nothinge vnto Iacob but good.

& yf the God of my father the God of Abraham, and the feare of Isaac had not bene on my syde, thou haddest latten me go awaye emptye. But God hath loked vpon myne aduersite and laboure, and rebuked the yesterdaye.