Genesis 31:1-21 ▼

1 He herde also of ye wordes of Labans children, that they sayde: Iacob hath brought all or fathers good vnto him self, & of oure fathers good hath he gotten these riches.

2 And Iacob behelde Labans countenaunce, & beholde, it was not towarde him as yesterdaye and yeryesterdaye.

3 And the LORDE sayde vnto him: Departe agayne to thy fatherlade, and to thy kynred, I wyll be with the.

4 Then sent Iacob and bad call Rachel and Lea in to the felde to his flockes,

5 and sayde vnto them: I se youre fathers countenaunce, that it is not towarde me like as yesterdaye and yeryesterdaye: but the God of my father hath bene with me.

6 And ye knowe, that I haue serued youre father with all my power.

7 And he hath disceaued me, and chaunged my wages now ten tymes. But God hath not suffred him, to do me harme.

8 Yf he sayde: The partye coloured shalbe thy rewarde, then the whole flocke bare partye coloured.Yf he sayde: The speckelde shalbe thy rewarde, the the whole flocke bare speckelde.

9 Thus hath God with drawen youre fathers goodes from him, and geuen them vnto me.

10 For whan the buckynge tyme came, I lift vp myne eyes and sawe in a dreame, and beholde, the rammes leapte vpon the flocke that was speckelde, spotted, & partye coloured.

11 And the angel of God sayde vnto me in a dreame: Iacob. And I answered: here am I.

12 He sayde: lift vp thine eyes, and beholde, the rammes leape vpon the speckelde, spotted, and partie coloured flocke: for I haue sene all yt Laban doth vnto the.

13 I am ye God at Bethel, where thou dyddest anoynte the stone, & maydest a vowe there vnto me. Get the vp now, & departe out of this londe, & go agayne in to the londe of thy kynred.

14 Then answered Rachel and Lea, and sayde vnto him: As for vs, we haue no porcion ner inheritauce more in oure fathers house,

15 & he hath couted vs as straugers, for he hath solde vs, & spent vp or wages.

16 Therfore hath God withdrawe or fathers riches from him vnto vs & oure children. What so euer now God hath sayde vnto the, that do.

17 So Iacob gat vp, and set his children and wyues vpon Camels,

18 and caried awaye all his catell and all his substaunce, that he had gotten at Mesopotamia, yt he might come vnto Isaac his father in the lande of Canaan.

19 Laba was gone to clyppe his flocke, and Rachel stale hir fathers ymages.

20 Thus dyd Iacob steale awaie ye hert of Laban ye Syrian, in yt he tolde him not that he fled.

21 So he fled, & all that was his, gat vp, and passed ouer the water, & wente straight towarde the mount Gilead.