lacob fleeth. zr 22 23 24 z5 26 27 z8 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 GE N E S fs XXX(. A covenant at Gal-eed. IIS Syrian : in that he told him not, that he fled: And he fled himfclf, andall that he had ;and he rofe up and paffed over the river : and fet his face towardmount Gilead. And it it was told Laban, in the third day ; that Ja- kob was fled. And hee tooke his brethren with him , and followed after him , feven dayes way : and overtooke him , in mount G- ilead.AudGod came to Laban the Syrian, in a dreame by night : and he laid unto him; Take thou heed,left thou fpeake with Jakob from good to bad. And Laban overtooke Jakob : and Jakob had pitched his tent in the moutat ; and Laban pitched with his bre- thren in mount Gilead. And Laban Paid, to Jakob ; what haft thou done , that thou haft ftóílen -away from my heart t and haft led - away my daughters, as captives with the (word ? Wherefore didft thou flee fecretly, and fteale -away from me: and didft not tell me ? that I might have Pent thee away,with mirth and with fongs,with timbrell andwith harpe. And haft not fuffred me to kiffe my formes; and my daughters : now, thou haft done- foolílhly info doing. It is in the po- wer of my hand to doe you evill : but the God of your father laid unto mee yefier- night , laying; Take thou heed, thatthon fpeake not with Jakob from good to bad. Andnow, going thou wouldeftbe gone,be- caufe longing thoulongedit after thy fathers houfe:wherefore haft thouftollen my gods? And Jakob anfwered,and Paid to Laban : be- caufe I feared ; for I laid, left thou take-by- force thy daughters from me. With whom thou (halt find thy gods, let him not live : before our brethren , difcerne thou what is thine with mee , and take-it to thee : and Ja- kob knew not,that Rachel had ftollen them. And Laban entred into the tent of Jakob, and into the tent of Leah, and into the tent of the handmaids, and hee found them not : and he went out from the tent of Leah, and entred into the tent of Rachel. And Ra- chel had taken the Teraphims,and put them in the camels furniture, and fate upon them: and Laban felt all the tent, and foundthem not. And (he laid to her father, Let it not be difpleafing in the eyes of my Lord, that I cannotrife.up before thee, for thecuftome of women is upon me: and he fearched,and found not the Teraphims. And Jakob was wroth , and diode with Laban : and Jakob anfwered and faid to Laban; what is my tref- paffe, what is my finnesthat thou haft hotly - purfued after met Whereas thou haft felt all my fhtlfe , what haft thou found of all the ftufe of my houfe r fen it here, beforemy bret hren and thy brethren : anA let them de- bare between us two. This twenty yeeres have I been with thee; thyewes.and thy (he- goats have not caft.their -yong : and the ranimes ofthy hocke, I have no: eaten.The torn, I brought not unto thee ; I made-it- good ; of any hand didft thou require it: the ftollen by day, or ftollen by night. I was in the day, the heat did confume me,and the froft in the night : and my fleepe fled from mine eyes.This was my twenty yeere,inthy houfe:I have ferved thee fourteenyeres,tor thy two daughters; and fixe yeere, for toy catte!!: and thou haft changed my wages, ten times. Except the God of my father, theGod of Abraham,and the Feare of Ifaak, hadbeene with me ;. furely now thou hadft fent me away emery : my at8i&ion and the labour ofmy hands, God hathíeene,and re- buked thee ye terni ht. And Laban anfwe- red , and Paid un:o Jakob ; Theft daughters are my daughters, and theft fames my foes, and there cattell my carrell; and all that thou feeft, it belongs to me : and to my daughters, what (hall I do to thefe thii day ; or ro their fonnes,whichthey have borne e Now ther- 1 44 fore,comelet us ftrike a covenant, I & thou: and let it be for a witneffe,betweene me and thee. And Jakob tooke a (lone: and let it up, for a pillar. And Jakob Paid to his bre- 46 thren,Gather ftones;and they tooke ftones, andmade an heape; and they did Bate there, upon the heape. And Labancalled it, Iegar- fahadutha: and Jakob called it Gal-eed.And Laban laid, This heap is a witneffe,between me and thee, this day : therefore hee called the name of it Gal-eed. And Mizpah, for he Paid ; Jehovah watch, berweene mee and thee : when we (hall be hid each man from his neighbour. If thou (halt afi& nay daugh- ters, and if thou (halt take wives betides my daughters, no man is with us: fee, God is witneffe , betweene nie and thee. And La- ban faid to Jakob ; Behold this heape , and behold this pillar,which I have caft between me and thee.This heape be witneffe, and the pillar be wirneffe that I will not paffe over this heape unto thee ; and that thou (halt not paffe over this heap, and this pillar unto me, for evill, The God Of Abraham , and the God of Nachor,they judge between us;the God of their father: and Jakob fware,bythe Feare of his father Ifaak. And Jakob flew a flaughter (ofbeafs,) in the mount; and cal- led 38 39 40 4a 42 43 4
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