JACOB LEAVES LABAN SECRETLY.
| ðo ſulen him ben for hire numen; Sep or got, haſwed, arled, or grei, 1724 Ben don fro iacob fer a-wei; | and spotted cattle for his hire. |
| ðog him boren ðes oneſ bles Vn-like manige and likeles. | The flocks produced many speckled and spotted. |
| ðo ſag laban ðat iacob bi-gat 1728 Michil, and him miſlikede ðat; | Laban was greatly displeased. |
| bi-tagte him ðo ðe ſunder bles, And it him boren ones bles. | He changed Jacob's hire. |
| Ten ſiðes ðus binnen .vi. ger, 1732 Shiftede iacob hirdeneſſe her, And ai was labaneſ herte ſor, for hiſ agte wex mor & mor. | Ten times within six years he shifted the cattle. |
| Ðo ſag iacob laban wurð
wroð, 1736 Vnder him ben leng iſ him loð, | Jacob saw that Laban was unfriendly towards him, |
| And wið iſ wiues he takeð red, And greiðet him deðenward[[184]] wið ſped. | so he determined to leave Padanaram. |
| Laban ferde to nimen kep, 1740 In clipping time to hiſe ſep, fro caram in-to vten ſtede, ðor quiles iacob ðiſ dede dede; Wið wiues, and childre, & orf he nam, | Laban had left Haran to shear his sheep. |
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1744
And to ðe munt galaad he bi-cam; | Jacob came to mount Gilead, |
| ðanne fleg he to meſopotaniam, | [Fol. 34b.] |
| And drog to-ward cananeam. And Rachel adde hid and for-olen | and drew towards Canaan. |
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1748
Hire faderes godes of gold, & ſtolen. Laban it wiſte on ðe ðridde dai | Rachel had stolen her father's gods. |
| ðat iacob waſ ðus flogen a-wei; He toc, and wente, and folwede on, 1752 And ðhogt in mod iacob to ſlon, | Laban, hearing of Jacob's flight, pursues him. |
| Oc god in ſweuene ſpac him to, ðat he ſulde iacob non yuel do. | God, in a dream, forbids Laban to harm Jacob. |
| vij. nigt forð-geden and dais oc, 1756 Or laban iacob ouer-toc; | Laban overtakes Jacob on the seventh day. |
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