Genesis 31:1-21 ▼

1 And Iacob herde the wordes of Labas sonnes how they sayde: Iacob hath take awaye all that was oure fathers and of oure fathers goodes hath he gote all this honoure.

2 And Iacob behelde the countenauce of Laban that it was not toward him as it was in tymes past.

3 And the LORde sayde vnto Iacob: turne agayne in to the lade of thy fathers and to thy kynred and I wilbe with ye.

4 Tha Iacob sent and called Rahel and Lea to the felde vnto his shepe

5 and sayde vnto the: I se youre fathers countenauce yt it is not toward me as in tymes past. Morouer ye God of my father hath bene with me.

6 And ye knowe how that I haue serued youre father with all my myghte.

7 And youre father hath disceaued me and chaunged my wages .x. tymes: But God suffred him not to hurte me.

8 When he sayde the spotted shalbe thy wages tha all the shepe barespotted. Yf he sayde the straked shalbe thi rewarde tha bare all the shepe straked:

9 thus hath God take awaye youre fathers catell and geue the me.

10 For in buckynge tyme I lifted vp myne eyes and sawe in a dreame: and beholde the rammes that bucked the shepe were straked spotted and partie.

11 And the angell of God spake vnto me in a dreame saynge: Iacob. And I answered: here am I.

12 And he sayde: lyfte vp thyne eyes ad see how all therames that leape vpon the shepe are straked spotted and partie: for I haue sene all that Laban doth vnto ye.

13 I am ye god of Bethell where thou anoynteddest the stone ad where thou vowdest a vowe vnto me. Now aryse and gett the out of this countre ad returne vnto the lade where thou wast borne.

14 Than answered Rahel and Lea and sayde vnto him: we haue no parte nor enheritaunce in oure fathers house

15 he cownteth us eue as straungers for he hath solde vs and hath euen eaten vp the price of vs.

16 Moreouer all the riches which God hath take from oure father that is oures and oure childerns. Now therfore what soeuer God hath sayde vnto the that doo.

17 Tha Iacob rose vp and sett his sones and wiues vp vpon camels

18 and caried away all his catell and all his substace which he had gotte in Mesopotamia for to goo to Isaac his father vnto the lade of Canaan.

19 Laba was gone to shere his shepe and Rahel had stolle hir fathers ymages.

20 And Iacob went awaye vnknowynge to Laban the Sirie and tolde him not yt he fled.

21 So fled he and all yt he had and made him self redy and passed ouer the ryuers and sett his face streyght towarde the mounte Gilead.