Genesis - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 32

GENESIS. 31___4g 49

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This heap is a. Witness betweeii me and therefore they called its name Giladi and Let; the EvER~L1v1NG watch between me and between you to keep each from evil, If you grieve my daughters, and if you take wives beside my daughters, when we are not together, let GOD see the Witness between me Then Laban added to See this heap, and see the pillar which I have raised between me and between you ;~—Witness this Heap, and Witness this Pillar, if I should pass over to you beyond this Heap; or if you should pass over to me beyond this Heap, and this Pillar

53 for evil, the Gob of Abraham, and the Gob of Nahor judge between us; the G01; of our fathers} jacob then swore by the WoR·

54 SHIPPED of his father Isaac. And jacob sacrificed a sacrifice on the Heap, and invited his relatives to eat bread. So they ate bread, and they rested on the Heap. 32 Laban then rose up in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them, and went and

2 returned to his own place. But jacob continued his journey; and a

3 Messenger of GOD met him. So What a glorious en» —~· carnpment of GOD this place is ! therefore he called the name of that The Encampmentf iilzziiug uf (Esau mth 3m:¤h. 4 Then jacob sent messengers before himself to his brother Esau, at Mount

5 Seir, in the land of Edom, and he You shall say this to my Lord Esau, I have lodged with Laban, and stayed until now, and there are with me bullocks, and asses, and sheep and serving men and women, so I have sent to inform my Lord, to find favour When the messengers returned to jacob they reported; ‘ We went to your brother, to Esau,

and he is also coming to call upon you, and four hundred men with jacob, consequently, was very

greatly afraid, and it distressed him; I Witness-heap, so he divided the people who were with him, and the sheep andthe cattle, and camels into two camps; if Esau comes to the one camp, and assails it, then there will be the other to fly to.’ GOD of my father Abraham, and GOD of my father Isaac, the LORD Who said to me ‘Return to the land of your birth and I will be good to you.’ I am un· worthy of all the mercies and of all the support which You have shown to me when I, Your servant, passed over this torrent with my staff, and I am returning as two camps. Grant me a deliverance from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for] fear that he will come and cut off mothers with children, But You have said ‘ Supporting I will support you, and I will make your race like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted for quantity} So he rested there that night. Then he took presents in his hand ; presents for his brother Esau: A hundred goats, and twenty he—goats; a hundred sheep, and twenty rams; thirty suckling camels with their foals; forty cows and ten bulls; twenty she·asses and ten asses; and he put them under the hands of servants separately, troop by troop, Go before me, and spread a space between He also ordered If you meet Esau, my brother, and he asks you ‘Who are you? and where are you going? and whose are these before you? ’ you shall reply, ‘ From your servant, from jacob, a present he sends to my Lord, to Esau. And look also he is behind us ! He ordered the second also, with

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I2 14 _> 16 18 20 shall say the same words to Esau if he meets with you, and you shell 21 also say to him, ‘ See, your servant ’ For he re- I will pacify him first by the presents that I send to him, and afterwards I will see by his face whether or no I can stand before Thus he sent presents over before

him; but he himself stopped that night in the camp. However he arose at night and took his two wives, and the two second wives, and his 22