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 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. |
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. |
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. |