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and chode withLaban: and 46 And Jacob faid unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took ftones, and made an hcap; and they did eat there upi on the heap.

Jacob antwered, and faid co Laban, What is my tref pafs? what is my fin, that thou haft fo hotly pursued after me?

37 Whereas thou haft fearched all my ftuff, what haft thou found of all thy haufhold stuff? fet it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt usboth 39 This twenty years bave I been with thee; thy ews and thy the goars have not caft their young, and the rams of thy flock have 1 not eaten

39 That which was torn of eft, I brought not un to thee, I bare the lofs of it of my hand didst thou require it, whether ftollen by day,or ftollen by night. 40 Tous I was in the day the drought confumed me, and the troft by night;and my fleep departed from mine eyes.

41 Thus have I bern twenty years in thy houfe, I ferved thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and fix years for thy cartel: and thou haft chan ged my wages ten times,

43 Except the God of my father, the God of Abra ham, and the fear of Ifaac had been with me, furely thou hadft fent me away now empry: God hath teen rine amiction, and rhe labour of my hands, and rebuked the yefternight. 43 And Laban answered, and laid unto Jacob, Thefe daughters are my daugh. ters, and defe children are my children, and thefe carrel are my carrel, and all that thou feeft is mine:and what can I do this day unto rhefe my daughters, or unro their children which they have born?

44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a cove nant, I and thou; and let it be for a witnefs berween me and thee.

4r And Jacob rook a fons, and fet it up for a pillar.

47 And Laban called it Jegar-fahadutha: bur Ja cob called ir Galced.

48 And Laban said, This heap is a witnets between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed,

49 And Mizpah; for he aid: The Lord watch be.. tween me and thee, when we are abfent one from another.

so lfthou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shale take other wives belides my daughters, no man is with us: Sec, God is witnefs between me and thee.

51 And Laban faid to Ja cob,Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have caft betwixt me and

thee.

52 This heap be witnefs, and this pillar be wirnels, that I will not pafs over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not país over this heap and this pillar, unto me, for harm.

53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor,the God of their father, judge betwixtus. And Ja cob fware by the fear of his father Ifaac.

54 Then Jacob offered facrifices upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did. ear bread, and tarried all night in the mount.

55 And early in the mor ning Laban rofe up, and kified his fons and his daughters, and bleffed them: and Laban departed & returned unto his place.

CHAP. XXXII.

ANd Jacob went on his

way, and the angels of

God mer him.

2 And when Jacob faw them,he fald,This is Gods hoft: and he called the name of that place Maha

naim.

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3 And Jacob fent meffengers before him to Efau his brother, unto the land of Seir, the countrey of Edom.

4 And he commanded them,faying,Thus fhall yé Ipeak unto my lord Efau, Thy fervant Jacob faith thus, I have fojourned with Laban, and flayed

there uhrill'now.

5 And I have oxen, and affes, flocks, and men-fer. vants, and women-fer vants, and I have fent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy fight.

6 And the meffengers re turned to Jacob, Taying, We came to thy brother Efau; and alfo he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and diftrefled: and he divided the people that was with him,and the flocks, and herds, and the camels into two bands:

8 And fald, If Efau come to the one company and fmite it; then the other company which is left hal efcape.

94 And Jacob fald, O God of my father Abraham,and God of my father Ifaac, the LORD which faidft unto me, Return un. to thy countrey, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:

10 I am not worthy of the leaft of all the mercies, and of all the truth,which thou haft the wed unto thy fervant; for with my ftat I paffed over this Jordan, and now I am become two

bands.

11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Efau: for I fear him, left he will come and fmire me, and the-mother with the children.

12 And thou faidft, I will furely do thee good, and make thy feed as the fand of the fea, which cannot be numbred for multitude. 13 And he lodged there,

thar fame night; and took of that which came to his hand a prefent for Blau his brother;

the

14 Two hundred goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ews, and twenty rams.

15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, fourty kine,and ten bulls, twenty the-affes, and ten foles.

16 And he delivered them Into the hand of his fer. vants, every drove by themselves; and faid unto his fervants, pas over be fore me, and put afpace between drove and drove,

17 And he commanded the foremost,faying,When Efau my brother meeterh thee and asketh thee, fay ing, Whole art thou? and whither goeft thou? and. whofe are these before thee

18 Then thou shalt fay, They be thy fervant Ja cobs; it is a prefent fent unto my lord Efau; and behold alfo he is bebind us 19 And fo commanded he the fecond, and the third, and all that followed the droves, faying, On this manner fhall you fpeak un to Efau,whenyou find him

20 And fay ye moreover, Behold, thy fervant Jacob tr behind us: For he faid, I will appeafe him with the prefent that goeth before me, and afterward I will fee his face; peradventure be will accept of me.

21 So went the prefent over before him and himfelf lodged that night in the company.

22 And he rofe up that night, and took his two wives, and his two women fervants, and his eleven, fons, and pasted over the foord Jabbok..

23 And he took them, and fent them over the brook, and fent over that be had.

24 And Jacob was left: alone; and there wreftled a man with him, until the breaking of the day. 25 And when he law that

he

e prevailed not againft 4 And Efau ran to meet him, and embraced him and fell on his neck, and kiffed him and they wept

him, he touched the hollow of his thigh: and the hollow of Jacobs thigh was out of joynt, as he wreftled with him.

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me.

What is thy name? And he fald, Jacob.

came near, they and their children; and they bowed themfelves.

28 And he fald, Thy name fhall be called no more Jacob, but Ifrael: for as a prince haft thou Tower with God,and with men, and haft prevailed. 129 And Jacob asked bim, and faid, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name: And he fald, wherefore is it, that thou doft ask after my

7 And Leah alfo with her children came near, and bowed hemfelves and af ter came Jofeph near and Rachel, and they bowed themfelves.

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8 And he faid, What meaneft thou by all this drove which I met? And he faid, Torfe are to find

be came from be before

; and pitched trade you?

name and he bleffed him grace in the fight of my hand

there.

30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have feen God face to face, and my life is preferved,

31 And as he paffed over Penuel, the fun rofe upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

Iord.

9 And Efau faid, I have enough; my brother, keep that thou haft unto thy felf.

10 And Jacob faid, Nay, 7 pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy fight, then receive my prefent ar my hand, for therefore I have feen thy face, as though I had feen the face of God, and thou wait pleafed with me."

32 Therefore the chil dren of Ifrael ear nor of the finew which fhrank which is upon the hollow of the the thigh.unro this day because he touched the hollow of Jacobs thigh, in the finew that fhrank.

CHAP. XXXIII.

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11 Take, I pray thee, my blefling that is brought to thee, becaufe God hath dealt gracioufly with me, andbecause I have enought and he urged him, and he took it.

ANd Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, Efau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two hand-maids.

12 And he faid, Let us take our journey, and lec us go, and I will go be fore thee,

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13 And he faid unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me; and if men thould overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

3 And he paffed on before them, and bowed himself to the ground feven times, until he came near to his brother.

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CHAP. XXXIII. XXXIV.

me, and the children be
able to endure; until I
come unto my lord unto
Seir.

15 And Efau faid, Let me
now leave with thee fome
of the folk that are with
me. And he faid, What
needeth it? Let me find
grace in the fight of my
lord:

1680 Efau returned that day on his way unto Seir. 17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an houfe,and made booths for his cartel: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

184 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city ofShechem; which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city. 19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had fpread his rent,at the hand ot the children of Hamor Shechems father, for an hundred pieces of money. 20 And he errected there an altar, and called It ElElohe-Ifrael.

CHAP. XXXIV.

ANd Dinah the daughter
of Leal, which fhe bare
unto Jacob,went out to fee
the daughters of the land.
2 And when Shechem
the fon of Hamor the Hi-
vite, prince of the coun
trey, law her, he took her,
and lay with her, and de
filed her.

3 And his foul clave un. to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damfel, and fpake kindly unto the damfel.

4 And Shechem fpake anro his father Hamor, faying, Get me this damiel to wite.

5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter, (now his fans were with his catrel in the field) and Jacob held his peace until they were

come.

6 And Hamor the fa ther of Shechem, went out uhto Jacob, to commune with him.

7 And the fons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it, and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth: because he had wrought folly in Ifrael, in lying with Ja, cobs daughter; which thing ought not to be done

$And Hamor communed with them, faying, The foul of my fon Shechem longeth for your daugh ter; I pray you give her him to wife.

9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

10 And ye shall dwell with us, and the land thall be before you: dwell and trade you therein, and get you poffeffions therein.

11 And Shechem faid unto her father, and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and. what ye shall fay unto me I will give.

12 Ask me never fo much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall fay unto me: but give me the damfel to wife.

13 And the fons of Jacob anfwered Shechem and Ha.. mor his father deceitfully, and fald, (because he had defiled Dinah their fifter)

14 And they faid unto, them, We cannot do this thing, to give our fister to one that is uncircumcifed; for that were a reproach unto us.

1. But in this will we confent unto you: if you will be as we be,that every male of you becircumcifed

16 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daugh.. ters to us, 8c we will dwell with you, and we will be come one people.

17 But if ye will not hear. ken unto us, to be circumcifed; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

18 And their words pleaf.
ed Hamor, and Shechem
Hamors fon.
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To And the young man and all their little ones, deferred not to do the and their wives took they thing, because he had de, cap tve, and fpoiled even and he was more honour- 30 And Jacob faid to Si-o to And J light in Jacobs daughter, all that was in the house. able than all the houfe of meon and Levi, Ye have, or e troubled me, to make me

his father.

20 And Hamor and to ftink among the inhabi Shechem his fon came un. rants of the land, amongst

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21 And

to the gate of their city, the Canaanites, and the band f and communed with the Perizzites and I being in thi

men of their city, faying, 21 These men are peace able with us, therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them: let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

few in number, they shall
gather themselvestogether
against me, and flay me:
and I shall be destroyed, I
and my houfe.
31 And they fald, Should
he deal with our fifter, as
with an harlot?

22 Onely herein will the

men confent unto us, for

CHAP. XXXV.

of Padan, 22M Welled him when L God faid unto land, ane Jacob; and t Retall or be al fac be all be thy name; ions led his name f-27

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Nd God faid unto Jacob, God Said unto an
Arife, go up to Beth-el, God Almighty:

and dwell there, and make

to dwell with us, to be one there an altar unto God, company of

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all come our

people, if every male a- that appeared unto thee, be of thee,

mong us be circumcifed,as they are circumcifed.

23 Shall not their cartel, and their fubftance, and everybeaft of their be ours? onely let ns confent unto them, and they will dwell

with us.

when thon feddeft from
the face of Efau thy bro.
ther.

2 Then Jacob fald unto
his houthold and to all
that were with him, Par a
way the ftrange gods that
are among you, and be
clean, and change your
garments:

24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his fon, hearkened all that went our of the gare of his city: and every male was circumcifed, all that went out of the gate of his city.

and which I tam and Vanc Fill give it: and d after thee will advent up from de place wher rich im. Jacob fet at place whi with him, of Bone, and drink offe

3 And let us arife, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

25 And it came to pafs on the third day, when they were fore, that two of the fons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinahs brethren, took each man his fword, and came upon the city boldy, and flew all the males.

4 And they gave unto Jacob all the ftrange gods. which were in their hand, and all their ear-ringa which ware in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by She chem.

26 And they flew Hamor, and Shechem his fon.with the edge of the fword, and took Dinah out of She chems houfe,and went cut 27 The fons ofJacob came upon the flain, and fpolled the city, because they had defiled their fifter.

Ps and has p Jacob calle Withe place

5 And they journeyed: and the terrour of God was upon the cities that.. were round about them, and they did not purfue after the fons of Jacob.

28 They took their theep, and their oxen, and their afes, and that which was in the city,and that which was in the field.

29 And all their wealth,

6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Ca. naan (that is Beth-el) he and all the people that were with him.

7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there

God

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