And he made him flocks of his own by them self, which
he put not unto the flocks of Laban. And alway in the first bucking
time of the sheep, Iacob put the staves before the sheep in the
gutters, that they might conceive before the staves: But in the latter
bucking time, he put them not there: so the last brood was Laban's and
the first Iacob's. And the man became exceeding rich and had many
sheep, maidservants, menservants, camels and asses.
Chapter .xxxj.
And Iacob heard the words of Laban's sons how they said: Iacob hath
taken away all that was our father's, and of our father's goods, hath
he gotten all this honour. And Iacob beheld the countenance of Laban,
that it was not toward him as it was in times past. And the LORD said
unto Iacob: turn again into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred,
and I will be with thee. Then Iacob sent and called Rahel and Lea to
the field unto his sheep, and said unto them: I see your father's
countenance, that it is not toward me as in times past. Moreover the
God of my father hath been with me. And ye know how that I have served
your father with all my might. And your father hath deceived
{disceaved} me and changed my wages ten times: But God suffered him not
to hurt me. When he said the spotted shall be thy wages, then all the
sheep bare spotted. If he said, the streaked shall be thy reward, then
bare all the sheep streaked: thus hath God taken away your father's
cattle and given them me. For in bucking time, I lifted up mine eyes
and saw in a dream: and behold, the rams that bucked the sheep were
streaked, spotted and party. And the angel of God spake unto me in a
dream saying: Iacob?. And I answered: here am I. And he said: lift up
thine eyes and see how all the rams that leap upon the sheep are
streaked, spotted and party: for I have seen all that Laban doth unto
thee. I am the God of Bethel where thou anointedest the stone and where
thou vowdest a vow unto me. Now arise and get thee out of this country,
and return unto the land where thou wast born. Then answered Rahel and
Lea and said unto him: we have no part nor inheritance in our father's
house: he counteth us even as strangers, for he hath sold us, and hath
even eaten up the price of us. Moreover all the riches which God hath
taken from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now therefore
whatsoever God hath said unto thee, that do. Then Iacob rose up and set
his sons and wives up upon camels, and carried away all his cattle and
all his substance which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, for to go to
Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan Laban was gone to shear his
sheep, and Rahel had stolen her father's images. And Iacob went away
unknowing to {Iacob stale away the heart of} Laban the Sirian, and told
him not that he fled. So fled he and all that he had, and made himself
ready, and passed over the rivers, and set his face straight toward the
mount Gilead. Upon the third day after, was it told Laban that Iacob
was fled.
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