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Laban's covenant with Jacob.

Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Iaac, had been with me, urely thou hadt ent me away now empty. God hath een mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yeternight.

¶ And Laban anwered and aid unto Jacob, Thee daughters are my daughters, and thee children are my children, and thee cattle are my cattle, and all that thou eet is mine: and what can I do this day unto thee my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witnes between me and thee.

And Jacob took a tone, and et it up for a pillar.

And Jacob aid unto his brethren, Gather tones; and they took tones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.

And Laban called it ‖ Jegar-ahadutha: but Jacob called it ‖ Galeed.

And Laban aid, This heap is a witnes between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

And ‖ Mizpah; for he aid, The watch between me and thee, when we are abent one from another.

If thou halt afflict my daughters, or if thou halt take other wives beide my daughters, no man is with us; ee, God is witnes betwixt me and thee.

And Laban aid to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cat betwixt me and thee:

This heap be witnes, and this pillar be witnes, that I will not pas over this heap to thee, and that thou halt not pas over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob ware by the fear of his father Iaac.

Then Jacob ‖ offered acrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.

And early in the morning Laban roe up, and kied his ons and his daughters, and bleed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.

1 Jacob's viion at Mahanaim. 3 His meage to Eau. 6 He is afraid of Eau's coming, 9 and frayeth for deliverance. 13 He endeth a preent to Eau; 24 wretleth with an angel at Peniel, and is called Israel. 31 He halteth.

Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

And when Jacob aw them, he aid, This is God's hot: and he called the name of that place ‖ Mahanaim.

¶ And Jacob ent meengers before him to Eau his brother unto the land of Seir, the † country of Edom.

And he commanded them, aying, Thus hall ye peak unto my lord Eau; Thy ervant Jacob aith thus, I have ojourned with Laban, and tayed there until now:

And I have oxen, and aes, flocks, and menervants, and womenervants: and I have ent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy ight.

¶ And the meengers returned to Jacob, aying, We came to thy brother Eau, and alo he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and ditreed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

And aid, If Eau come to the one company, and mite it, then the other company which is left hall ecape.

¶ And Jacob aid, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Iaac, the which aidt unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:

† I am not worthy of the leat of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hat hewed unto thy ervant; for with my taff I paed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.

Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Eau: for I fear him, let he will come and mite me, and the mother † with the children.

And thou aidt, I will urely do thee good, and make thy eed as the and of the ea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

¶ And he lodged there that ame night; and took of that which came to his hand a preent for Eau his brother;

Two hundred he goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty he aes, and ten foals.

And he delivered them into the hand of his ervants, every drove by themelves; and aid unto his ervants, Pas over before me, and put a pace betwixt drove and drove.

And he commanded the foremot,