Genesis - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 30

GENESIS. the lambs and placed the faces of the olaeed them not; so the feeble went to Laban and the strong to jacob. sheep towards the striped, and gave all the black among the sheep of Laban to his own flocks, and did not assign them to the sheep of Laban. Thus when any of the strong sheep were hot for union, then jacob placed the wands before the eyes of the sheep, near the troughs, to indame them among the wands. Before the feeble of the sheep, however, he

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30 herds have been with me; for they were small that were with you before me, and they have spread out to many, and the Ev2ReLiv1NG has blessed you at my feet. Yet have I gained even a house of my own ? ’ What shall I You shall

, not give me anythinga If you will do 33 34 35 37 this thing for me I will conduct your sheep and guard them. I will go over all your sheep to-day counting. Every sheep speckled or spotted, and every black sheep among the lambs, and every spotted or speckled in the rams, they shall be my wages; and you shall assign them justly to me from to·day forward, as my wages from you. All that is not spotted or speckled in the goats, or black in the sheep, it shall be a theft with mef It shall be exactly as you say} 39 He therefore separated on that day

the marked and spotted rams, and all the marked and speckled-of the goats from all that were white, and all the black sheep, and gave, them tothe hands of his sons, and put a three days' journey between, them and be- tween ]acob’s; but jacob shepherded the other sheep for Laban his father- in-law. jacob then selected young wands

of willow, and almond, and sycamore, and peeled them; peeling to the white so as to show the whiteness of the wands, and he stuck the wands which he had peeled near the water- ing troughs where the sheep came to drink, in the sight of the sheep, when they were hot for breeding after drinking. So the sheep were hot amongst the wands, and bore, and the sheep bore marked, and spotted, and speckled; Then jacob separated Thus the man increased verysmuch, 43 and he possessed many sheep, and women and men servants, and camels and asses. However he heard the sons of 31 jacob will take all that our father has, and from what our father possessed he has jacob conse- quently watched the face of Laban, and perceived it was not with him as formerly. Then the Evan·1.1v1no said to

Return to the land of your fathers and your birth, and I will be S0 jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his I see that the face of your father is not with me as formerly,—·but the GOD of my fathers is with me. Now you know that with -all my strength I have served your father. But your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; GOD however did not allow him to do evil to me. For 8 when he said, ‘The spotted shall be your wages} all the sheep were spotted :——but if he said, ‘ The streaked shall be your wages} then all the sheep were streaked; so GOD took g away the flocks of your father and gave them to me. ‘ It also happened in the season of

the heat of the sheep, that I raised my eyes in a dream and saw the rams leaping on the streaked, speckled and spotted sheep, and the Messenger of GOD said to me in the dream, ‘jacob;’ and I replied ‘I am here. Then he said, ‘Lift up your eyes and see all therams leaping on the streaked, speckled and spotted sheep, for I have seen all that Laban has doneto you. I am the GOD ·of the HOUSE of GOD1 which you con- secrated there in the pillar which you dedicated to me,-··—where you vowed a Gift. Go from this country, and return to the country of your Then Rachel and Leah answered

What portion or inheritance is there to us in the house of our father? Are we not like strangers and outcasts to him? for he sold us, and has eaten up our money. For all the wealth which GOD has stripped from our father

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