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So he fled, & all that was his, gat vp, and passed ouer the water, & wente straight towarde the mount Gilead.

and hast not suffred me to kysse my children and doughters? Thou hast done foolishly, and so moch might I haue made,

And for so moch then as thou woldest nedes departe, and longedest sore after yi fathers house, why hast thou stollen away my goddes?

Then sayde she vnto hir father: Be not angrie my lorde, that I can not ryse vp vnto the: for it goeth wt me after the maner of wemen. So he sought, and founde not the ymages.

And Iacob was wroth, and chode with Laban, answered & sayde vnto him: What haue I trespased or offended, yt thou art so whote vpon me?

Thus commaunded he the seconde also, and the thirde, and all them that folowed the flockes, and sayde: Like as I haue tolde you, so speake ye vnto Esau, whan ye mete him,

So the present wente before him, but he taried in the tente the same night,

toke them and caried them ouer the water, so that all that he had came ouer,

Take this present in good worth, that I haue brought ye, for God hath geuen it me, & I haue ynough of all thinges. So he compelled him to take it.

So Esau departed againe the same daye towarde Seir,

In the meane season came Iacobs sonnes from ye felde. And whan they herde it, it greued the men, and they were very wroth, that he had wrought foly in Israel, and lyen with Iacobs doughter: for so was not the vse to do.

and toke their shepe, oxen, Asses, and what so euer was in the cite and in the londe,

And Iacob sayde vnto Symeon and Leui: Ye haue brought it so to passe, yt I stynke before the inhabiters of this lande, ye Cananites and Pheresites, & I am but a small nombre: Yf they gather them selues now together against me, they shal slaye me, so shal I be destroyed with my house.

& departed. And there came a feare of God vpon the cities that laye roude aboute, so that they folowed not after ye sonnes of Iacob.

So came Iacob vnto Lus in ye lande of Canaan (which is called Bethel) and all the people that were with him,

& saide vnto him: Thou art called Iacob, neuertheles thou shalt nomore be called Iacob, but Israel shal be yi name. And so was he called Israel.

So God departed from him, from ye place where he talked wt him.

So Rachel died, & was buried in the waye towarde Ephrath, which now is called Bethlehe.

for their substaunce was so greate, that they coude not dwell together: and the londe wherin they were straungers, might not holde them because of their goodes.

So Esau dwelt vpon mount Seir. And Esau is Edom.