had to pay for it: thou requiredst it of my hand, it was stolen from me by day or by night.

I languished in the day for heat, and in the night for frost, and no sleep came into mine eyes.

So I have served in thy house these twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages tenfold.

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, you would have left me empty. But God looked upon my affliction and trouble, and punished thee yesterday.

And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks; and all that thou seest is mine: what can I do unto my daughters this day, or unto their children which they have born?

Come now therefore, and let us make a covenant, I and thou, which shall be a testimony between me and thee.

And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a mark.
46: And said unto his brethren: Pick up stones. And they took stones, and made a heap, and did eat in the same heap.

And Laban called his name Jegar-sahaduthah: but Jacob called his name Gilead.

And Laban said, Let the multitude be a witness this day between me and thee (therefore is it called Gilead).

And be a wait, for he said, The LORD look between me and thee, when we come one from another,

Wherefore thou hast offended my daughters, or taken other wives over my daughters. There is no man here with us: but, behold, God is a witness between me and thee.

And Laban said again unto Jacob, Behold, this is the multitude, and this is the mark which I have set up between me and thee.

Let this heap be a witness, and let the mark also be a witness, where I pass over unto thee, or thou pass over unto me this heap, and mark to hurt.

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, and the God of their fathers, be judge between us.

And Jacob sware unto him by the fear of Isaac his father. And Jacob sacrificed in the mount, and invited his brethren to eat. And when they had eaten, they tarried in the mount overnight.

And Laban rose up early in the morning, and kissed his children and his daughters, and blessed them; and he departed, and returned unto his place.
Ch. 32. v.1. But Jacob went his way; and the angels of God met him.

And when he saw them, he said, They are the armies of God: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
(Genesis)
Chapter 32
Jacob’s Fear. Prayer and struggle.

And Jacob sent messengers before him unto Esau his brother, unto the land of Seir, in the coasts of Edom.

And he commanded them, saying, Thus say ye unto my lord Esau, Thy servant Jacob saith unto thee, I have been with Laban a long time without.

And I have oxen, and asses, and sheep, and menservants, and maidservants: and I have sent forth word unto thee, my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.

And the messengers came again to Jacob, and said: We came to thy brother Esau; and he also cometh to meet thee with four hundred men.

And Jacob was sore afraid, and his heart was troubled: and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two armies.

And he said, If Esau come upon the one host, and smite it, the remnant shall escape.

And Jacob said, O God of Abraham my father, and O God of Isaac my father, O LORD, thou hast said unto me: Return unto thy land, and to thy friendship, and I will do thee good: 10. I am lowly in all thy mercy, and in all thy faithfulness, which thou hast done unto thy servant: for I had not this staff when I passed over this Jordan, and now am I become two armies.

Deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I am afraid of him, lest he come and smite me, the mothers with the children.

Thou hast said, I will do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot
be numbered before the multitude.

And he tarried there that night, and took of that which he had present present unto his brother Esau:

Two hundred goats, twenty rams, two hundred sheep, twenty rams.

And thirty lactating camels with their colts, and forty cows, and ten bullocks, and twenty asses with ten colts;

And he put them under the hand of his servants, one flock by one, and said unto them: Go before me, and leave space between one flock and another.

And he commanded the first, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, To whom belongest thou? and whither wilt thou go? and what is it that thou dost set before thee?

And thou shalt say, It belongeth unto Jacob thy servant, which sendeth a present unto Esau his master, and goeth after us.

So he commanded the second and the third, and all that went after the flocks, saying, As I have said unto you, so say unto Esau, when ye meet him,

And say ye also, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he thought, I will make an atonement for him with the present that goeth before me: afterward I will see him, peradventure he will accept me.

So the present went before him, but he tarried that night with the host.

And he arose in the night, and took his two wives, and his two maids, and his eleven children, and went unto the fords of Jabbok,

And he took them, and led them over the water, that what he had might pass over; 24. And he abode alone. Then a man wrestled with him until the dawn.

And when he saw that he overcame him not, he touched the joint of his thigh; and the joint of his thigh was dislocated above the wrestling with him.

And he said, Let me go, for the dawn is breaking. But he answered: I will not leave thee, for thou blessest me.

And he said, What is thy name? And he answered, Jacob.

And he said, Thou shalt no more be called Jacob, but Israel. For thou hast fought with God, and with men, and hast prevailed.

And Jacob asked him, saying, Tell me, what is thy name? And he said, Why askest thou my name? And he blessed him there.

And Jacob called the name of the place Pniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my soul is recovered.

And when he was come over before Pniel, the sun rose upon him; and he limped on his thigh.

Therefore the children of Israel eat no sinew in the joint of the thigh unto this day: because the sinew was touched in the joint of Jacob’s thigh.
(Genesis)
Chapter 33
Reconciliation of Jacob with Esau.

And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and saw Esau his brother coming with four hundred men. And he divided his children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto both his handmaids.

And he put the handmaids and their children in the first place, and Leah and her children after her, and Rachel and Joseph last.

And went before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came to his brother.

And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women with the children, and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, They are the children which God hath given unto thy servant.

And the handmaids came near with their children, and bowed themselves to him.

And Leah came near with her children, and bowed themselves to him. And afterward Joseph and Rachel came near, and bowed themselves to him.

And he said, What wilt thou have with all this host that I have met? And he said, That I may find grace in the sight of my lord.

And Esau said: I have enough, my brother; keep what you have.

And Jacob said, Alas not! If I have found grace in thy sight, take my gift out of my hand: for I have seen thy face, as I saw the face of God: and let it please thee of me.

But receive from me the blessing which I have bestowed upon thee: for God hath bestowed it upon me, and I have enough. So he compelled him to take it.

And he said, Let us depart, and travel: I will go with thee.

And he said unto him, My lord, thou knowest that I have tender children with me, and cattle and suckling cows: if they should overdo it one day, all the flock would die unto me.

Let my lord go before his servant. I will go by and by, and after that the cattle and the children shall go, until I come to my lord in Seir.

And Esau said, I will leave with thee some of the people that are with me. And he said, What need is there? Only let me find grace in the sight of my lord.

So Esau went his way again that day to Seir.

And Jacob went to Shukoth, and built him an house, and made tents for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is Shukoth.

After this Jacob went against Salem, unto the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, (after he was come out of Mesopotamia,) and pitched before the city.

And he bought