Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Genesis 31:6-21 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

6. And you know that I have served your father to the utmost of my power.

7. Yea, your father also hath overreached me, and hath changes my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.

8. If at any time he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white ones for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones.

9. And God hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me.

10. For after that time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep that the males which leaped upon the females were of diverse colors, and spotted, and speckled.

11. And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob? And I answered: Here I am.

12. And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers colors, spotted, and speckled. For I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee.

13. I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country.

14. And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we anything left among the goods and inheritance of our father's house?

15. Hath he not counted us as strangers and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?

16. But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore do all that God hath commanded thee.

17. Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.

18. And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac his father to the land of Chanaan.

19. At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.

20. And Jacob would not confess to his father in law that he was flying away.

21. And when he was gone, together with all that belonged to him, and having passed the river, was going on towards mount Galaad,