As soone as Rahel had borne Ioseph/ Iacob sayde to Laban: Sẽde me awaye y^t I maye goo vnto myne awne place and cũtre/ geue me my wives and my childern for whome I haue serued the/ and let me goo: for thou knowest what seruyce I haue done the. Than sayde Laban vnto hĩ: If I haue fownde fauoure in thy syghte (for I suppose y^t the LORde hath blessed me for thy sake) appoynte what thy rewarde shalbe/ and I will geue it y^e. But he sayde vnto hym/ thou knowest what seruyce I haue done y^e/ & in what takynge thy catell haue bene vnder me: for it was but litle that thou haddest before I came/ and now it is encreased in to a multitude/ and the LORDE hath blessed the for my sake. But now when shall I make provysion for myne awne house also? And he sayde: what shall I geue the? And Iacob answerd: thou shalt geue me nothinge at all/ yf thou wilt do this one thinge for me: And then will I turne agayne & fede thy shepe and kepe them. I will go aboute all thy shepe this daye/ and separate frõ thẽ all the shepe that are spotted and of dyverse coloures/ and all blacke shepe amonge the lambes and the partie and spotted amonge the kyddes: And then such shalbe my rewarde. So shall my rightwesnes answere for me: when the tyme commeth that I shall receaue my rewarde of the: So that what soeuer is not speckeld and partie amonge the gootes and blacke amonge the lambes/ let that be theft with me. Than sayde Laban: loo/ I am contẽte/ that it be acordinge as thou hast sayde. And he toke out that same daye the he gootes that were partie & of dyuerse coloures/ & all the she gootes that were spotted and partie coloured/ & all that had whyte in thẽ/ & all the blacke amonge the lambes: ãd put thẽ in the kepinge of his sonnes/ & sett thre dayes iourney betwixte hĩselfe & Iacob. And so Iacob kepte y^e rest of Labãs shepe. Iacob toke roddes of grene popular/ hasell/ & of chestnottrees/ & pilled whyte strakes in thẽ & made the white apere in the staues: And he put the staues which he had pilled/ euẽ before y^e shepe/ in the gutters & watrynge troughes/ whẽ the shepe came to drynke: y^t they shulde cõceaue whẽ they came to drynke. And the shepe cõceaued before the staues & brought forth straked/ spotted & partie. Thẽ Iacob parted the lãbes/ & turned the faces of the shepe toward spotted thinges/ & toward allmaner of blacke thinges thorow out the flockes of Labã. And he made him flockes of his owne by thẽ selfe/ which he put not vnto the flockes of Labã. And allwaye in the first buckinge tyme of the shepe/ Iacob put the staues before the shepe in the gutters/ y^t they myghte conceaue before the staues/ But in the latter buckynge tyme/ he put them not there: so the last brode was Labãs and the first Iacobs. And the man became excedynge ryche & had many shepe/ maydeseruauntes/ menseruauntes/ camels & asses. ¶ The .xxxi. Chapter.