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96 whatsoeuer perished by theft thou didest exact it of me: day and night was I parched with heate, and with frost, and sleepe did flye from myne eyes. And 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. Vnles 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. Laban 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? Come therefore, let vs enter in league: that it may be for a testimonie between me and thee. Iacob therfore tooke a stone, and erected it for a title: and he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. Who gathering them together made a heap, and they did eate vpon it: Which Laban called The witnesse-heap: and Iacob called The hillock of testimonie, either of them according to the proprietie of his language. And 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. Our Lord behold and iudge between vs when we shal be departed one from the other, if 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. And he said againe to Iacob: Behold this heap, and the stone which I haue erected between me and thee, shal 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. The 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: and after he had offred victimes in the mountaine, he called his brethren to eate bread. Who when they had eaten, lodged there, but Laban arising in the night, kissed his sonnes, and daughters, and blessed them: and returned vnto his place. Rh