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whatsoeuer perished by theft thou didest exact it of me: ⁴⁰day and night was I parched with heate, and with frost, and sleepe did flye from myne eyes. ⁴¹And in this sort haue I serued thee in thy house twentie yeares, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times. ⁴²Vnles the God of my father Abraham, and the feare of Isaac had holpen me, peraduenture now thou haddest sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday. ⁴³Laban answered him: The daughters are mine and the children, and thy flocks, and al things that thou seest are mine: what can I doe to my daughters, and nephews? ⁴⁴Come therefore, let vs enter in league: that it may be for a testimonie between me and thee. ⁴⁵Iacob therfore tooke a stone, and erected it for a title: ⁴⁶and he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. Who gathering them together made a heap, and they did eate vpon it: ⁴⁷Which Laban called The witnesse-heap: and Iacob called The hillock of testimonie, either of them according to the proprietie of his language. ⁴⁸And Laban said: This heap shal be a witnes between me and thee this day, and therfore the name therof was called Galaad, that is, The witnesse-heap. ⁴⁹Our Lord behold and iudge between vs when we shal be departed one from the other, ⁵⁰if thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wiues ouer them; none is witnes of our talke but God, who is present and beholdeth. ⁵¹And he said againe to Iacob: Behold this heap, and the stone which I haue erected between me and thee, ⁵²shal be a witnes: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for a testimonie, if either I shal passe beyond it going towards thee, or thou shalt passe beyond it, thinking harme to me. ⁵³The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor iudge between vs, the God of their father. Iacob therfore sware by the feare of his father Isaac: ⁵⁴and after he had offred victimes in the mountaine, he called his brethren to eate bread. Who when they had eaten, lodged there, ⁵⁵but Laban arising in the night, kissed his sonnes, and daughters, and blessed them: and returned vnto his place.