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Chap. XXIX.
Iacob intertained by Laban, 15. serueth him seuen yeares for Rachel, 23. but
first receiuing Lia, 27. seuen dayes after receiueth also Rachel, and serueth
for her seuen yeares more. 31. She remaining barren, Lia beareth foure
sonnes.
1 Iacob therfore going on his iourney, came into the East
countrie.
2 And he sawe a wel in the field, and three
flockes of sheepe lying beside it: for of it the beasts were
watered, and the mouth therof was closed with a great stone.
3 And the maner was when al the sheepe were geathered
togeather they did rowle of the stone, and after the sheepe
were refreshed they put it on the mouth of the wel againe.
4 And he said to the sheperds: Brethren, Whence are
you? Who answered: Of Haran.
5 And he asked them,
saying: Know you Laban the sonne of Nachor? They said:
We do knowe him.
6 Is he in health? quoth he: He is in
health, say they: And behold Rachel his daughter cometh
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Iacob.
with his flocke.
7 And Iacob said: There is yet much day
remaining, neither is it time to bring the flockes into the
foulds againe: first geue the sheep drinke, and so bring them
backe to feede.
8 Who answered: We can not, til al the
cattel be gethered together: and we remoue the stone from
the wels mouth, that we may water the flocks.
9 They were
yet speaking, and behold Rachel came with her fathers
sheepe: for she fed the flocke.
10 whom when Iacob had
seene, and knew her to be his cosen germaine, and that they
were the sheepe of Laban his vncle: he remoued the stone,
wherwith the wel was closed.
11 And hauing watered the
flocke, he note kissed her: and lifting vp his voice wept,
12 and he
told her that he was her fathers brother, and the sonne of
Rebecca: but she in hast went and told her father.
13 Who
when he heard that Iacob his sisters sonne was come, he
ranne forth to mete him: and embracing him, and hartely
kissing him, brought him into his house. And when he had
heard the causes of his iourney,
14 he answered: Thou art my
bone and my flesh. And after the dayes of one moneth were
expired,
15 he said to him: because thou art my brother,
shalt thou serue me note gratis? Tel me what wages wilt
thou take.
16 He had in dede two daughters, the name of the
elder was Lia: and the younger was called Rachel.
17 But Lia
was bleare eyed: Rachel wel fauored, and of a bewtiful countenance.
18 Whom Iacob louing, said: I wil serue thee for
Rachel thy younger daughter, seauen yeares.
19 Laban answered:
It is better that I geue her to thee then to an other
man, tary with me.
20 Iacob therfore serued for Rachel
seuen yeares: and they semed a few dayes because of the
greatnes of his loue.
21 And he said to Laban: geue me
my wife: because now the time is complete, that I may
companie with her.
22 Who hauing bid a great number
of his freinds to the feast, made the mariage.
23 And at
night note he brought in Lia his daughter to him,
24 geuing his
daughter a handmaid, named Zelpha. With whom when
Iacob had compained after the maner, when morning was
come he saw Lia:
25 and he said to his father in lawe: What
is it that thou didest meane to doe? did not I serue thee for
Rachel? why hast thou deceiued me?
26 Laban answered:
It is not the custome in this place, that we bestowe the
younger in mariage first.
27 Make vp the note weeke of dayes
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Iacob.
of this match: and I wil geue the this same also, for the
worke that thou shalt serue me other seauen yeares.
28 He
yelded to his pleasure: and after the weeke was past, he
maried Rachel to wife:
29 to whom her father had deliuered
Bala for to be her seruant.
30 And hauing at length obteined
the mariage that he wished, he preferred the loue of the
later before the former, seruing with him other seauen
yeares.
31 And our Lord seing that he despised Lia, opned
her wombe, her sister remaining barren.
32 Who conceaued
and bare a sonne, and called his name Ruben, saying: Our
Lord saw mine affliction: now my husband wil loue me.
33 And againe she conceaued and bare a sonne, and said: For
because our Lord heard that I was contemned, he hath
geuen this also to me: and she called his name Simeon.
34 And she conceaued the third time, and bare an other
sonne: and said: Now also my husband wil be ioyned to me,
for because I haue borne him three sonnes: and therfore
she called his name, Leui.
35 The fourth time she conceaued
and bare a sonne, and said: Now wil I conffesse to our Lord.
And for this she called him Iuda: And she left bearing.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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