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and I may haue children of her. ⁴And she gaue him Bala into ^[1] mariage: who, ⁵when her husband had companied with her, conceaued and bare a sonne. ⁶And Rachel said: Our Lord hath iudged for me and hath heard my voice, giuing me a sonne, and therfore she called his name, Dan. ⁷And againe Bala conceauing bare another, ⁸for whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I haue preuailed: and she called him Nepthali. ⁹Lia perceauing that she had left bearing, deliuered Zelpha her handmaid to her husband. ¹⁰Who conceauing and bringing forth a sonne, ¹¹ she said: Happily. And therfore called his name Gad. ¹²Zelpha also bare another. ¹³And Lia said: This is for my blessednes: for women wil cal me blessed. Therefore she called him, Aser. ¹⁴And Ruben going forth in the time of wheat haruest into the field, found mandragores: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Giue me part of thy sonnes ^[2] mandragores. ¹⁵She answered: Doest thou thinke it a smal matter that thou hast taken my husband from me, vnlesse thou take also my sonnes mandragores? Rachel said: For thy sonnes mandragores let him sleep with thee this night. ¹⁶And when Iacob returned at euen from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Companie with me, because with wages I haue hired thee for my sonnes mandragores. And he slept with her that night. ¹⁷And God heard her prayers: and she conceaued and bare the fifth sonne, ¹⁸and said: God hath giuen me a reward, because I gaue my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar. ¹⁹Againe Lia conceauing, bare the sixt sonne, ²⁰& said: God hath endowed me with a good dowrie: this turne also my husband wil be with me, for because I haue borne him six sonnes, and therfore she called his name, Zabulon. ²¹After whom he bare a daughter named Dina. ²²Our Lord also remembring Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb. ²³Who conceaued and bare a sonne, saying: God hath taken away my reproach. ²⁴And she called his name, Ioseph, saying: Our Lord adde to me an other sonne. ²⁵And when Ioseph was borne, Iacob said to his father in law: Dismisse me that I may returne into my countrie, and to my land. ²⁶Giue me my wiues, and my children, for whom I haue serued thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the seruice that I haue serued thee. ²⁷Laban said to him: Let me find grace in thy sight: I haue learned by experience that God hath blessed me for thy sake: ²⁸appoint thee wages which I shal giue thee. ²⁹But he answered: Thou knowest how I haue serued thee, and how great thy possession hath been in my hands. ³⁰Thou hadest a smal thing before I came to thee, and now thou art made rich: and our Lord hath blessed thee at my comming in. It is reason therfore that once I prouide also for mine owne house. ³¹And Laban said: What shal I giue thee? But he said: I wil nothing: but if thou wilt doe that which I demand, I wil feed, and keep thy sheep again. ³²Goe round about al thy flockes, and separate al the sheep

1. Of pluralitie of wiues see pag. 60.
2. Holie Scripture (saith S. Augustin) would neuer haue mentioned such womanlie distress but to admonish vs to seeke great mysteries therin. li. 22. c. 56. cont. Faustum.