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¹⁷Iacob therfore rose vp, and setting his children and wiues vpon camels, went his way. ¹⁸And he tooke al his substance, and flocks, and whatsoeuer he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac his father into the land of Chanaan. ¹⁹At that time Laban was gone to sheare his sheep, and Rachel stole the Teraphim.″ idols of her father. ²⁰And Iacob would not confesse to his father in law that he fled. ²¹And when he was gone as wel himselfe as al things that were his right, & hauing passed the riuer was marching on to Mount Galaad, ²²it was told Laban the third day that Iacob fled. ²³Who, taking his brethren vnto him, pursued him seauen dayes: and he ouertook him in the Mount Galaad. ²⁴And he saw in his sleep God saying vnto him: Take heed thou speake not roughly anie thing against Iacob. ²⁵And Iacob had now pitched his tent in the mountaine: and when he with his brethren had ouertaken him, he pitched his tent in the same Mount Galaad. ²⁶And he said to Iacob: Why didest thou so, that vnwitting to me thou wouldest carie away my daughters as captiues with the sword? ²⁷Why wouldest thou fly without my knowledge, and not tel me, that I might haue brought thee on the way with ioy, and songs, and timbrels, and cithernes? ²⁸Thou hast not suffred me to kisse my sonnes and daughters: thou hast done foolishly: now also indeed ²⁹my hand is able to requite thee euil: but the God of your father said vnto me yesterday: Take heed thou speake not any thing against Iacob roughly. ³⁰Suppose, thou diddest desire to goe to thy freinds, and hadest a longing to thy fathers house, why didest thou steale my Gods? ³¹Iacob answered: In that I departed vnwitting to thee, I feared lest thou wouldest take away thy daughters by force. ³²But whereas thou chargest me with theft: with whom soeuer thou shalt find thy Gods, let him be slaine before our brethren: search, what soeuer of thy things thou shalt find with me, and take away. Saying this, he knew not that Rachel had stollen the idols. ³³Laban therfore hauing gone into the tent of Iacob, and of Lia, and of both the handmaids, found them not. And when he was entred into Rachels tent, ³⁴she in hast hid the idols vnder the camels litter, and sat thervpon: and when he had sought al the tent, and found nothing, ³⁵she said: Let not my lord be angrie that I can not rise vp before thee, because according to the custome of women it is now chanced to me. So his carefulnes in seeking was deluded. ³⁶And Iacob being ^[1] angrie said in chiding manner: For what fault of myne, and for what offence of my part hast thou so chaffed after me, ³⁷and searched al my houshould-stuffe? What hast thou found of al the substance of thy house? lay it heer before my brethren, and thy brethren, and let them iudge between me and thee. ³⁸Haue I therefore been with thee twentie yeares? thy ewes and goats were not barren, the wethers of thy flocke I did not eate: ³⁹neyther that which the beast had caught did I shew to thee, I made good al the damage:

1. Iacob in this iust expostulation was angrie and sinned not. Psal. 4.