Jacob is entertained by Laban. GENESIS. He serves for Leah and Rachet. ban the son of Nahor? And they said, We 25 And it came to pass, that in the know him. morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said 6 And he said unto them, Is he well? to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto And they said, He is well: and behold, me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep. wherefore then hast thou beguiled me? 7 And he he said said, Lo, it is yet high day, 26 And Laban said, It must not be so neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them. done in our country, to give the younger 8 And they said, We cannot, until all thee this also, for the service which thou the flocks be gathered together, and till shalt serve with me yet seven other years. they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep. 9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them. 28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also. 29 And Labangave to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah his handmaid, to be her maid. 30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet sevenother years. Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren. 10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep eep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went 31 And when the LORD saw that Dear, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. 11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. 32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son; and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked upon 12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was my affliction; now therefore my husband her father's brother, and that he was Rebe-will love me. kah's son; and she ran and told her father. 33 And she conceived again, and bare 13 And it came to pass when Laban a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, heard that I was hated, he hath therefore that he ran to meet him, and embraced given me this son also: and she called his him, and kissed him, and brought him to his name Simeon. house. And he told Laban all these things. 14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh: and he abode with him the space of a month. 34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have borne him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi. 15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Be- 35 And she conceived again, and bare cause thou art my brother, shouldest thou a son: and she said, Now will I praise therefore serve me for nought? tell me, the LORD: therefore she called his name what shall thy wages be? 16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Judah, and left bearing. A ND when Rachel saw that she bare 17 Leah was tender-eyed, but Rachel her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give was beautiful and well-favoured. 18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. 19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give ber to another man: abide with me. 20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. 21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife (for my days are fulfilled) that I may go in unto her. 22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. 23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought ber to him; and he went in unto her. 24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leab, Zilpah bis maid, for a bandmaid. me children, or else I die. 2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel; and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? 3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. 4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife and Jacob went in unto her. 5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. 6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan. 7 And Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son. 8 And Rachel said, With great wrestRachel bears Joseph. CHAP. XXX. Tacob's covenant with Laban. lings have I wrestled with my sister, and thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes 9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah, her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. 29 And he said unto him, Thou know10 And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bare Ja-est how I have served thee, and how thy cob a son. cattle was with me. 11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad. 12 And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bare Jacob a second son. 13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher. 30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming: and now, when shall I provide for mine own house also? 31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me 14 And Reuben went in the days of any thing. If thou wilt do this thing for me, wheat-harvest, and found mandrakes in I will again feed and keep thy flock: the field, and brought them unto his mo- 32 I will pass through all thy flock tother Leab. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give day, removing from thence all the speckme, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes. led and spotted cattle, and all the brown 15 And she said unto her, Is it a small cattle among the sheep, and the spotted matter that thou hast taken my husband? and speckled among the goats: and of and wouldest thou take away my son's such shall be my hire. mandrakes also? And Rachel said, There- 33 So shall my righteousness answer for fore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy me in time to come, when it shall come son's mandrakes. for my hire before thy face: every one that 16 And Jacob came out of the field in is not speckled and spotted among the the evening, and Leah went out to meet goats, and brown among the sheep, that bim, and said, Thou must come in unto shall be counted stolen with me. me; for surely I have hired thee with my 34 And Laban said, Behold, I would son's mandrakes. And he lay with her it might be according to thy word. that night. 35 And he removed that day the he 17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and goats that were ring-streaked and spotted, she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifthson. and all the she-goats that were speckled 18 And Leah said, God hath given me and spotted, and every one that had some my hire, because I have given my white in it, and all the brown among the maiden to my husband: and she called sheep, and gave them into the hands of his his name Issachar. sons. 19 And Leah conceived again, and 36 And he set three days' journey be- 20 And Leah said, God hath endowed the rest of Laban's flocks.. Zebulun. 21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah. 22 And God remembered Rachel, and watering-troughs when the flocks came to God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. 23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: 24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son. drink; that they should conceive when 39 And the flocks conceived before the 40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ring-streaked, and all the brown in the 25 And it came to pass, when Rachel flock of Laban: and he put his own flocks had borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto by themselves, and put them not unto LaLaban, Send me away, that I may go unto ban's cattle. mine own place, and to my country. 41 And it came to pass whensoever the 26 Give me my wives and my children, stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob for whom I have served thee, and let me laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle go: for thou knowest my service which I in the gutters, that they might conceive bave done thee. among the rods. 27 And Laban said unto him, I pray 42 But when the cattle were feeble, he 27 --- 1 GENESIS. Jacob departs from Laban: put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. 43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maid-servants, and men-servants, and camels, and asses. CHAP. XXΧΧΙ. A NDhe heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory. 2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and behold, it was not toward him as before. 3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. 4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, 5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before: but the God of my father bath been with me. 6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. He is parsned by tim. and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram; for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's. 20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. 21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead. 22 And it was told Laban on the third day, that Jacob was fled. 23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey: and they overtook him in the mount Gilead. 24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the 7 And your father hath deceived me, mount: and Laban with his brethren and changed my wages ten times: but pitched in the mount of Gilead. God suffered him not to hurt me. 26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast 8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thou done, that thou hast stolen away unthy wages; then all the cattle bare speck-awares to me, and carried away my daughled: and if he said thus, The ring-streaked ters, as captives taken with the sword? shall be thy hire: then bare all the cattle ring-streaked. 9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. 10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled. 11 And the angel of God spake unto 27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp? 28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons, and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing. 29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou said, Here am I. 12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee. heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 30 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house; yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods? 13 I am the God of Beth-el, where thou 31 And Jacob answered and said to anointedst the pillar, and where thou vow- Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, edst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee Peradventure thou wouldest take by force eut from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred. thy daughters from me. 14 And Rachel and Leah answered, and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? take it to thee: for Jacob knew not that 15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devour ed also our money. 32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and Rachel had stolen them. 33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two 16 For all the riches which God hath maid-servants' tents; but he found them taken from our father, that is ours, and our not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, children's: now then, whatsoever God hath and entered into Rachel's tent. said unto thee, do. 34 Now Rachel had taken the images, 17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his and put them in the camel's furniture, and sons and his wives upon camels; sat upon them. And Laban searched all 18 And he carried away all his cattle, the tent, but found them not. Jacob's covenant with Laban: CHAP. XXXII. His cressage and present to Esan 35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images. 51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee; 52 This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this 36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass with Laban: and Jacob answered, and over this heap and this pillar unto me, for said to Laban, What is my trespass? what harm. is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued 53 The God of Abrahara, and the God after me? 37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy housebold-stuff? set it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both. 38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. 39 That which was torn of beasts, I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. of Nahor, the God of their father, judge 54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon 55 And early in the morning Laban rose ND Jacob went on his way, and the A angels 2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, 41 Thus have I been twenty years in 3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, unto the land of 4 And he commanded them, saying, 42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me til now: away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight. 5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, 43 And Laban answered, and said unto children which they have borne? unto these my daughters, or unto their 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and up for a pillar. 8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape. 46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, 9 And Jacob said, O God of my fa Gather stones; and they took stones, and ther Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, made a heap: and they did eat there the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: upon the the heap. 47 And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed: 48 And Laban said, This heap is a wit- 49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. 50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives besides my daughters; no man is with us; see, God witness betwixt me and thee. 10 I am not worthy of the least of all 11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the 29 : i of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. 13 And he lodged there that same night, and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; His kind meeting with Esan. 31 And as he passed over Penuel, the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. 32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which 23 14 Two hundred she-goats and twenty upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank. CHAP. XXΧΙΙΙ. rams, 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals. A ND Jacob lifted up up his eyes, and looked, and behold, Esau came, and with 16 And he delivered them into the hand of him four hundred men. And he divided his servants, every drove by themselves; the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and said unto his servants, Pass over before and unto the two handmaids. me, and putaspace betwixt drove and drove. 2 And he put the handmaids and their 17 And he commanded the foremost, children foremost, and Leah and her chilsaying, When Esau my brother meeteth dren after, and Rachel and Joseph hinderthee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art most. thou? and whither goest thou? and whose 3 And he passed over before them, and are these before thee? 18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's: it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and behold also he is bebind us. 19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him. bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him and they wept. 5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children, and said, Whoare those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy ser 20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy vant. servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, 6 Then the handmaidens came near, I will appease him with the present that they and their children, and they bowed goeth before me, and afterward I will see themselves. his face; peradventure he will acceptofme. 7 And Leah also with her childrencame 21 So went the present overbefore him; near, and bowed themselves; and after and himself lodged that night in the com pany. came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. 22 And he rose up that night, and took 8 And he said, What meanest thou by all his two wives, and his two women-ser-this drove which I met? And he said, vants, and his eleven sons, and passed These are to find grace in the sight of my lord. ever the ford Jabbok. 9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself. 10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had 23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had. 24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him, until the breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed seen the face of God, and thou wast pleasnot against him, he touched the hollow of ed with me. bis thigh: and the hollow of Jacob's thigh 11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. is brought to thee; because God hath 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day dealt graciously with me, and because I breaketh: And he said, I will not let thee have enough: and he urged him, and he go, except thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. took it. 12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee. 13 And he said untohim, My lord know 28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a eth that the children are tender, and the prince hast thou power with God, and with men, and hast prevailed. 29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name: And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my pame? And he blessed him there. 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to lace, and my life is preserved. flocks and herds with young are with me, and if men should over-drive them one day, all the flock will die. 14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure; until I come unto my lord unto Seir. 15 And Esau said, Let me now leave |