Time of this Day, that the Flocks were gathered together, and watered, that they might thereafter go and feed. They answered, We cannot, until all the Flocks are gathered together; at which Time the Stone is rolled from off the Mouth of the Well, and the Sheep are watered. While he converfed with them, Rachel comes with her Father's Flock; (for fhe her felf was their Shepherdess). As foon as Jacob faw Rachel, the Daughter of Laban his Mother's Brother, and his Sheep, he approached the Well, and rolled the Stone from off it's Mouth, and watered Laban his Mother's Brother's Sheep. Jacob also kissed Rachel, and cried, and wept. He then informed her that he was her Father's Kinfman, and Rebekah's Son; fo fhe ran and told her Father. As foon as Laban had Notice of Jacob his Sifter's Son, he ran to falute, embrace, and kifs him. When Laban conducted him into his House, he told him the fame things. Then Laban faid to him, You are my Body and Features; fo be abode with him for a Month. Now Laban faid to Jacob, altho' you are my Kinfman, fhould you therefore ferve me for nought? Tell what your Wages fhall be. Laban had two Daughters; the Name of the elder was Leah, and that of the younger Rachel. Leah had fine Eyes,

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but Rachel was well shaped, and beautiful. So Jacob being in Love with Rachel, faid, I will ferve you feven Years for Rachel your younger Daughter: To whom Laban anfwered, It is better that I should give her to you than to another Man; ftay with me. While Jacob ferved feven Years for Rachel, they feemed to him only a few Days, because of the Love he had for her. At length he faid, Give me my Wife, that I may go in to her; for my Days are accomplished. Then Laban gathered together all the Men of the Place, and made a Feast: But in the Evening he took Leah his Daughter, and brought her to him; fo he went in to her. (Laban gave to his Daughter Leah, Zilpah his Woman-fervant, for a Servant). In the Morning when the appeared to be Leah; he faid to Laban, Why have you done this to me? Did I not ferve you for Rachel? Why have you deceived me? Laban anfwered, It is not the Cuftom of our Country, to give the younger before the Firft-born. Accomplish her Week, and this one shall be given to you alfo, because of the Service which you shall do me for feven Years hereafter. So Jacob did fo, and accomplished her Week: And thereafter Rachel was given him for a Wife; to whom Laban gave Bilbab his Maid-servant for a Maid. Then he went in alfo to Rachel, whom he loved more than Leah, N

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and ferved him for feven Years thereafter. Because Jehovah forefaw that Leah was to be hated, he opened her Womb; but Rachel was barren. So Leah conceived, and bare a Son, whom she called Reuben: For the faid, Jehovah hath confidered my Affliction; my Hufband now will love me upon account of this. She again conceived, and bare a Son; and faid, Becaufe Jehovah noticeth that I am hated, he has given me this one alfo: And the called his Name *Simeon. She again conceived, and bare a Son; and now faid, My Husband will grow fond of me, because I have brought forth three Sons to him: So fhe called him

Levi. She again conceived, and bare a Son; and faid, Now I will praise Jebovah: Wherefore he fhall be called ‡Judah. So the ceafed from bearing.

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HEN Rachel faw that she bare no Children to Jacob, fhe grew jealous of her Sifter, and faid to him, Caufe Sons to come by me, or if not, I fhall die. Then Jacob's Countenance was heated against Rachel; and he faid to her, Am I above

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the Gods, who with-holds from you the Fruit of the Womb? Wherefore the faid, There is my Maid Bilbab, go in to her, that she may bear Children a for my. Knees, whereby I shall have Sons by her. So the gave him Bilbab her Maid for a Wife, and he went in to her: And the conceived, and bare him a Son. Now Rachel faid, The Gods have judged me, and regarded my Defires, and given me a Son: Wherefore his Name shall be b Dan. Bilhah, Rachel's Maid, conceived again, and bare another Son to Jacob: At which Time Rachel faid, With extraordinary Strugglings I have ftruggled with my Sifter, and prevailed : So the called his Name Naphtali. When Leah faw that she had ceafed from bearing, fhe took Zilpah her Maid, and gave her to Jacob: So Leah faid, A Multitude comes (or in a Multitude); and called his Name Gad. Afterwards Zilpah, Leah's Maid, bare Jacob another Son; and Leah faid, O happy I; for the Daughters will praife me So fhe called his Name Asher. In the Days of the Wheat-Harvest Reuben went into the Field, and found defirable things, which he brought to his Mother Leah. Then Rachel faid to Leah, Give me, I entreat you, of your Son's defirable

things. But the faid to her, Is it a small Affair, that you have taken away my Hufband; and yet you would have my Son's defirable things alfo ? But Rachel anfwered, He fhall lie with you to Night upon account of your Son's defirable things. In the Evening, when Jacob came from the Field, Leah went out to hail him, and faid, You come with me to Night, for I have hired you with a Hire, even with my Son's defirable things: So he lay with her that Night. And the Gods regarded Leah; for the conceived, and bare a fifth Son to Jacob. Then the faid, The Gods have given me my Reward, because I gave my Maid to my Hufband; and called him * Jacar. Leah conceived again, and bare a fixth Son to Jacob: She then faid, The Gods have given me a good Prefent; my Hufband fhall now dwell with me, becaufe I have born him fix Sons; fo fhe called his Name Zebulun. Afterwards the bare a Daughter, and called her Name Dinah. Now God regarded Rachel, honoured her, and opened her Womb: So fhe conceived, and bare a Son, and faid, The Gods have taken away my Reproach: So fhe called his Name Jofeph; for fhe faid, Jehovah

will add to me another Son. After Rachel bare Jofeph, Jacob faid to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own Place, + He fhall add.

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