And Iacob herde the wordes of Lab&abar;s sonnes how they sayde: Iacob hath tak&ebar; awaye all that was oure fathers / and of oure fathers goodes / hath he got&ebar; all this honoure. And Iacob behelde the countena&ubar;ce of Laban / that it was not toward him as it was in tymes past.

And the LORde sayde vnto Iacob: turne agayne in to the l&abar;de of thy fathers ∧ to thy kynred / ∧ I wilbe with þe;. Th&abar; Iacob sent ∧ called Rahel ∧ Lea to the felde vnto his shepe / ∧ sayde vnto th&ebar;: I se youre fathers countena&ubar;ce þt; it is not toward me as in tymes past. Morouer

þe; God of my father hath bene with me. And ye knowe how that I haue serued youre father with all my myghte. And youre father hath disceaued me ∧ chaunged my wages .x. tymes: But God suffred him not to hurte me. When he sayde the spotted shalbe thy wages / th&abar; all the shepe barespotted. Yf he sayde the straked shalbe thi rewarde / th&abar; bare all the shepe straked: thus hath God tak&ebar; awaye youre fathers catell ∧ geu&ebar; th&ebar; me. 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. And the angell of God spake vnto me in a dreame saynge: Iacob. And I answered: here am I. And he sayde: lyfte vp thyne eyes &abar;d see / how all ther&abar;mes that leape vpon the shepe are straked / spotted and partie: for I haue sene all that Laban doth vnto þe;. I am þe; god of Bethell where thou anoynteddest the stone &abar;d where thou vowdest a vowe vnto me. Now aryse and gett the out of this countre / &abar;d returne vnto the l&abar;de / where thou wast borne. Than answered Rahel ∧ Lea ∧ sayde vnto him: we haue no parte nor enheritaunce in oure fathers house he cownteth us eu&ebar; as straungers / for he hath solde vs / and hath euen eaten vp the price of vs. Moreouer all the riches which God hath tak&ebar; from oure father / that is oures and oure childerns. Now therfore what soeuer God hath sayde vnto the / that doo. Th&abar; Iacob rose vp ∧ sett his s&obar;nes and wiues vp vpon camels / ∧ caried away all

his catell ∧ all his subst&abar;ce which he had gott&ebar; in Mesopotamia / for to goo to Isaac his father vnto the l&abar;de of Canaan. Lab&abar; was gone to shere his shepe / ∧ Rahel had stoll&ebar; hir fathers ymages. And Iacob went awaye vnknowynge to Laban the Siri&ebar; / ∧ tolde him not þt; he fled. So fled he ∧ all þt; he had / ∧ made him self redy / ∧ passed ouer the ryuers / and sett his face streyght towarde the mounte Gilead.

Ap&obar; the thirde day after / was it tolde Lab&abar; þt; Iacob was fled. Th&abar; he toke his brethr&ebar; with him and folowed after him .vij. dayes iourney and ouer toke him at the mounte Gilead. And God came to Lab&abar; the Siri&abar; in a dreame by nyghte / and sayde vnto him: take hede to thi selfe / that thou speake not to Iacob oughte save good. And Lab&abar; ouer toke Iacob: and Iacob had pitched his t&ebar;te in þt; mounte. And Laban with his brethern pitched their t&ebar;te also apon the mounte Gilead. Than sayde Lab&abar; to Iacob: why hast thou this done vnknowynge to me / and hast caried awaye my doughters as though they had bene tak&ebar; captyue with swerde? Wherfore wentest thou awaye secretly vnknowne to me ∧ didest not tell me / þt; I myghte haue broughte þt; on the waye with myrth / syngynge / tymrells and harppes / and hast not suffred me to kysse my childern ∧ my doughters. Thou wast a fole to do it / for I am able to do you evell. But the God of youre father spake vnto me yesterdaye saynge take hede tha

thou speake not to Iacob oughte saue goode. And now though thou w&ebar;test thi waye because thou l&obar;gest after thi fathers house / yet wherfore hast thou stollen my goddes?

Iacob answered ∧ sayde to Lab&abar;: because I was afrayed / ∧ thought that thou woldest haue tak&ebar; awaye thy doughters fro me. But with whome soeuer thou fyndest thy goddes / let him dye here before oure brethr&ebar;. Seke that thine is by me / ∧ take it to the: for Iacob wist not that Rahel had stoll&ebar; th&ebar;. Th&abar; w&ebar;t Lab&abar; in to Iacobs t&ebar;te / ∧ in to Leas t&ebar;te / ∧ in to .ij. maydens tentes: but fownde th&ebar; not. Th&abar; w&ebar;t he out of Leas t&ebar;te / ∧ entred in to Rahels t&ebar;te. And Rahel toke the ymages / ∧ put them in the camels strawe ∧ sate doune ap&obar; th&ebar;. And Lab&abar; serched all the t&ebar;te: but fownde th&ebar; not. Th&abar; sayde she to hir father: my lorde / be not angrye þt; I c&abar; not ryse vp before the / for the disease of wem&ebar; is come apon me. So searched he / but fo&ubar;de th&ebar; not.

Iacob was wrooth ∧ chode with Lab&abar;: Iacob also answered and sayde to him: what haue I trespaced or what haue I offended / that thou foloweddest after me? Thou hast searched all my stuffe / and what hast thou founde of all thy housholde stuffe? put it here before thi brethern ∧ myne / ∧ let th&ebar; iudge betwyxte vs both. This xx. yere þt; I haue bene wyth the / thy shepe and thy gootes haue not bene baren / and the rammes of thi flocke haue I not eat&ebar;. What soeuer was torne of beastes I broughte it not vnto þe; /

but made it good mysilf: of my h&abar;de dydest thou requyre it / whether it was stollen by daye or nyghte Moreouer by daye the hete consumed me / and the colde by nyghte / and my slepe departed fro myne eyes.

Thus haue I bene .xx. yere in thi house / and serued the .xiiij. yeres forthy .ij. doughters / and vi. yere for thi shepe / and thou hast changed my rewarde .x. tymes. And excepte the God of my father / the God of Abrah&abar; and the God whome Isaac feareth / had bene with me: surely thou haddest sent me awaye now all emptie. But God behelde my tribulation / and the laboure of my handes: and rebuked the yester daye.

Laban answered &abar;d sayde vnto Iacob: the doughters are my doughters / and the childern ar my childern / and the shepe are my shepe / &abar;d all that thou seist is myne. And what can I do this daye vnto these my doughters / or vnto their childern which they haue borne? Now therfore come on / let us make a bonde / I and thou together / and let it be a wytnesse betwene the ∧ me. Than toke Iacob a stone and sett it vp an ende / &abar;d sayde vnto his brethern / gather stoones And they toke stoones &abar;d made an heape / and they ate there / vp&obar; the heape. And Lab&abar; called it Iegar Sahadutha / but Iacob called it Gylead.

Than sayde Laban: this heape be witnesse betwene the and me this daye (therfore is it called Gilead) and this totehill which the lorde

seeth (sayde he) be wytnesse betwene me and the when we are departed one from a nother: that thou shalt not vexe my doughters nether shalt take other wyves vnto them. Here is no man with vs: beholde / God is wytnesse betwixte the and me. And Laban sayde moreouer to Iacob: beholde / this heape ∧ this marke which I haue sett here / betwyxte me and the: this heape be wytnesse and also this marcke / that I will not come ouer this heape to the / &abar;d thou shalt not come ouer this heape &abar;d this marke / to do any harme. The God of Abraham / the God of Nahor and the God of theyr fathers / be iudge betwixte vs.

And Iacob sware by him that his father Isaac feared. Then Iacob dyd sacrifyce vpon the mounte / and called his brethern to eate breed. And they ate breed and taried all nyghte in the hyll. And early in the mornynge Laban rose vp and kyssed his childern and his doughters / and blessed th&ebar; and departed and w&ebar;t vnto his place agayne. But Iacob went forth on his iourney. And the angells of God came ∧ mett him. And when Iacob sawe them / he sayde: this is godes hoost: and called the name of that same place / Mahanaim.

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