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Genesis Chapter 31

Wycliffe
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GENESIS

Genesis 31

1Aftir that Jacob herde the wordis of the sones of Laban, that seiden, Jacob hath take awei alle thingis that weren oure fadris, and of his catel Jacob is maad riche, and noble.
Ecclesiastes 4:4, Ecclesiastes 4:4, Proverbs 27:4, Jeremiah 9:23, Job 31:31
2Also Jacob perseyuede the face of Laban, that it was not ayens hym as yistirdai, and the thridde dai agoon,
Daniel 3:19, Daniel 3:19, 1 Samuel 18:9, 1 Samuel 18:11, Genesis 4:5
3moost for the Lord seide to hym, Turne ayen into the lond of thi fadris, and to thi generacioun, and Y shal be with thee.
Genesis 28:15, Genesis 28:15, Genesis 32:9, Genesis 32:9, Isaiah 41:10
4He sente, and clepide Rachel, and Lya, in to the feeld, where he kepte flockis, and he seide to hem,
5Y se the face of youre fadir, that it is not ayens me as `yisterdai and the thridde dai agoon; but God of my fadir was with me.
Genesis 31:2, Genesis 31:3, Genesis 31:2, Genesis 31:3, Genesis 31:42
6And ye witen that with alle my strengthis Y seruede youre fadir;
Genesis 30:29, Genesis 30:29, Colossians 3:22, Colossians 3:25, Genesis 31:38
7but and youre fadir disseyuyde me, and chaungide my meede ten sithis; and netheles God suffride not hym to anoye me.
Genesis 31:41, Genesis 31:29, Genesis 31:41, Genesis 31:29, Zechariah 8:23
8If he seide ony tyme, Dyuerse colourid sheep schulen be thi medis, alle sheep brouyten forth dyuerse colourid lambren; forsothe whanne he seide ayenward, Thou shalte take alle white for mede, alle the flockis brouyten forth white beestis;
Genesis 30:32, Genesis 30:32
9and God took a wey the substaunce of youre fadir, and yaf to me.
Genesis 31:1, Genesis 31:1, Genesis 31:16, Genesis 31:16, Esther 8:1
10For aftir that the tyme of conseyuyng of sheep cam, Y reiside myn iyen, and seiy in sleep malis dyuerse, and spotti, and of dyuerse colouris, stiynge on femalis.
Deuteronomy 13:1, Deuteronomy 13:1, Genesis 31:24, Genesis 20:6, Numbers 12:6
11And the aungel of the Lord seide to me in sleep, Jacob! and Y answeride, Y am redy.
Genesis 31:13, Isaiah 58:9, Genesis 31:13, Isaiah 58:9, Genesis 18:17
12Which seide, Reise thin iyen, and se alle malis dyuerse, byspreynt, and spotti, stiynge on femalis; for Y seiy alle thingis whiche Laban dide to thee;
Exodus 3:7, Exodus 3:7, Genesis 31:42, Deuteronomy 24:15, Genesis 31:42
13Y am God of Bethel, where thou anoyntidist a stoon, and madist auow to me. Now therefor rise thou, and go out of this lond, and turne ayen in to the lond of thi birthe.
Genesis 31:3, Genesis 31:3, Genesis 32:9, Genesis 32:9, Genesis 28:12
14And Rachel and Lya answeriden, Wher we han ony thing residue in the catels, and eritage of oure fadir?
Genesis 2:24, Ruth 4:11, Genesis 2:24, Ruth 4:11, Genesis 29:29
15Wher he `arettide not vs as aliens, and selde, and eet oure prijs?
Genesis 29:15, Genesis 29:20, Genesis 29:15, Genesis 29:20, Genesis 29:27
16But God took awei the richessis of oure fadir, and yaf tho to vs, and to oure sones; wherfor do thou alle thingis whiche God hath comaundide to thee.
Genesis 31:9, Psalms 45:10, Genesis 30:35, Genesis 31:1, Genesis 31:9
17Forsothe Jacob roos, and puttide hise fre children and wyues on camels, and yede forth;
1 Samuel 30:17, Genesis 24:61, Genesis 24:10, 1 Samuel 30:17, Genesis 24:61
18and he took al his catel, flockis, and what euer thing he hadde gete in Mesopotanye, and yede to Isaac, his fadir, into the lond of Canaan.
Genesis 28:21, Genesis 27:1, Genesis 27:2, Genesis 27:41, Genesis 35:27
19In that tyme Laban yede to schere scheep, and Rachel stal the idols of hir fadir.
1 Samuel 19:13, 1 Samuel 19:13, Genesis 31:30, Hosea 3:4, Genesis 31:30
20And Jacob nolde knouleche to the fadir of his wijf, that he wolde fle;
21and whanne he hadde go, as wel he as alle thingis that weren of his riyt, and whanne he hadde passid the water, and he yede ayens the hil of Galaad,
2 Kings 12:17, 2 Kings 12:17, Genesis 31:23, Luke 9:51, Luke 9:53
22it was teld to Laban, in the thridde dai, that Jacob fledde.
Exodus 14:5, Exodus 14:31, Job 5:12, Job 5:13, Genesis 30:36
23And Laban took his britheren, and pursuede hym seuene daies, and took hym in the hil of Galaad.
Exodus 2:11, Genesis 13:8, Exodus 2:13, Genesis 24:27, Exodus 2:11
24And Laban seiy in sleep the Lord seiynge to him, Be war that thou speke not ony thing sharpli ayens Jacob.
Genesis 24:50, Genesis 24:50, Genesis 20:3, Genesis 20:3, Genesis 31:29
25And thanne Jacob hadde stretchid forth the tabernacle in the hil; and whanne he hadde sued Jacob with his britheren, `he settide tente in the same hil of Galaad; and he seide to Jacob,
Hebrews 11:9, Genesis 12:8, Genesis 33:18, Hebrews 11:9, Genesis 12:8
26Whi hast thou do so, that the while I wiste not thou woldist dryue awey my douytris as caitifs by swerd?
1 Samuel 30:2, 1 Samuel 30:2, Genesis 12:18, Genesis 20:9, Genesis 20:10
27Whi woldist thou fle the while Y wiste not, nether woldist shewe to me, that Y shulde sue thee with ioie, and songis, and tympans, and harpis?
Exodus 15:20, Exodus 15:20, Judges 6:27, Genesis 31:3, Genesis 31:5
28Thou suffridist not that Y schulde kisse my sones and douytris; thou hast wrouyt folili.
Genesis 31:55, Genesis 31:55, Ruth 1:14, Acts 20:37, 1 Kings 19:20
29And now sotheli myn hond mai yelde yuel to thee, but the God of thi fadir seide to me yisterdai, Be war that thou speke not ony harder thing with Jacob.
Genesis 31:53, Genesis 31:42, Genesis 31:53, Genesis 31:42, Genesis 31:24
30Suppose, if thou coueitedist to go to thi kynesmen, and the hows of thi fadir was in desir to thee, whi hast thou stole my goddis?
Genesis 31:19, Judges 18:24, Genesis 31:19, Judges 18:24, Jeremiah 10:11
31Jacob answeride, That Y yede forth while thou wistist not, Y dredde lest thou woldist take awey thi douytris violentli;
Proverbs 29:25, Proverbs 29:25, Genesis 31:26, Genesis 31:27, Genesis 20:11
32sotheli that thou repreuest me of thefte, at whom euer thou fyndist thi goddis, be he slayn bifor oure britheren; seke thou, what euer thing of thine thou fyndist at me, and take awei. Jacob seide these thingis, and wiste not that Rachel stal the idols.
Genesis 31:23, 1 Samuel 12:3, 1 Samuel 12:5, Genesis 31:30, Genesis 31:19
33And so Laban entride into the tabernacle of Jacob, and of Lya, and of euer eithir meyne, and foond not; and whanne Laban hadde entrid in to the tente of Rachel,
Genesis 24:28, Genesis 24:67, Genesis 24:28, Genesis 24:67
34sche hastide, and hidde the idols vndur the strewyngis of the camel, and sat aboue. And sche seide to Laban, sekynge al the tente and fyndynge no thing,
Genesis 31:17, Genesis 31:19, Genesis 31:17, Genesis 31:19
35My lord, be not wrooth that Y may not rise bifore thee, for it bifelde now to me bi the custom of wymmen; so the bisynesse of the sekere was scorned.
Leviticus 19:32, Leviticus 19:32, Exodus 20:12, Exodus 20:12, Leviticus 19:3
36And Jacob bolnyde, and seide with strijf, For what cause of me, and for what synne of me, hast thou come so fersly aftir me,
Ephesians 4:26, Ephesians 4:26, Genesis 49:7, 2 Kings 5:11, 2 Kings 13:19
37and hast souyt al `the portenaunce of myn hous? What `hast thou founde of al the catel of thin hows? Putte thou here bifore my britheren and thi britheren, and deme thei betwixe me and thee.
1 Peter 2:12, Hebrews 13:18, Matthew 18:16, 1 Peter 3:16, 1 Corinthians 6:4
38Was I with thee herfore twenti yeer? Thi sheep and geet weren not bareyn, Y eet not the rammes of thi flok,
Genesis 30:27, Ezekiel 34:2, Ezekiel 34:4, Genesis 30:30, Deuteronomy 28:4
39nether Y schewide to thee ony thing takun of a beeste; Y yeldide al harm; what euer thing perischide bi thefte, thou axidist of me;
Luke 2:8, Exodus 22:31, 1 Samuel 17:34, 1 Samuel 17:35, Exodus 22:10
40Y was angwischid in dai and nyyt with heete and frost, and sleep fledde fro myn iyen;
1 Peter 5:2, 1 Peter 5:4, Hebrews 13:7, John 21:15, John 21:17
41so Y seruede thee bi twenti yeer in thin hows, fourtene yeer for thi douytris, and sixe yeer for thi flockis; and thou chaungidist my mede ten sithis.
Genesis 31:7, Genesis 31:7, 1 Corinthians 15:10, Genesis 29:18, Genesis 29:30
42If God of my fadir Abraham, and the drede of Isaac hadde not helpid me, perauenture now thou haddist left me nakid; the Lord bihelde my turmentyng and the traueyl of myn hondis, and repreuyde thee yistirdai.
Psalms 31:7, Psalms 31:7, Genesis 31:29, Genesis 31:53, Genesis 31:29
43Laban answeride hym, The douytris, and thi sones, and flockis, and alle thingis whiche thou seest, ben myne, what mai Y do to my sones, and to the sones of sones?
44Therfor come thou, and make we boond of pees, that it be witnessyng bitwixe me, and thee.
Joshua 24:25, Joshua 24:27, Joshua 22:27, Genesis 31:48, 1 Samuel 20:14
45And so Jacob took a stoon, and reiside it in to a signe, and seide to hise britheren,
Genesis 28:18, Genesis 28:22, Genesis 28:18, Genesis 28:22
46Brynge ye stoonus; whiche gadriden, and maden an heep, and eten on it.
Ecclesiastes 3:5, Ecclesiastes 3:5, Joshua 7:26, Joshua 4:5, Joshua 4:9
47And Laban clepide it the heep of wittnesse, and Jacob clepide it the heep of witnessyng; euer eithir clepide bi the proprete of his langage.
Hebrews 12:1, Hebrews 12:1
48And Laban seide, This heep schal be witnesse bytwixe me and thee to day, and herfor the name therof was clepid Galaad, that is, the heep of witnesse.
Joshua 24:27, Joshua 24:27, Joshua 13:8, Joshua 13:9, Deuteronomy 2:36
49And Laban addide, The Lord biholde, and deme bitwixe vs, whanne we schulen go awei fro yow;
Judges 11:29, Judges 11:29, Judges 10:17, Judges 10:17, 1 Samuel 7:5
50if thou schalt turmente my douytris, and if thou schal brynge yn othere wyues on hem, noon is witnesse of oure word, outakun God, whiche is present, and biholdith.
Jeremiah 42:5, Jeremiah 42:5, Jeremiah 29:23, Jeremiah 29:23, Micah 1:2
51And eft he seide to Jacob, Lo! this heep, and stoon, whiche Y reiside bitwixe me and thee, schal be witnesse;
52sotheli this heep, and stoon be in to witnessyng, forsothe if Y schal passe it, and go to thee, ether thou shalt passe, and thenke yuel to me.
Genesis 31:48, Genesis 31:48, Genesis 31:44, Genesis 31:45, Genesis 31:44
53God of Abraham, and God of Nachor, God of the fadir of hem, deme bitwixe vs. Therfor Jacob swoor by the drede of his fadir Ysaac;
Genesis 31:42, Genesis 31:42, Genesis 16:5, Genesis 16:5, Joshua 24:2
54and whanne slayn sacrifices weren offrid in the hil, he clepyde his britheren to ete breed, and whanne thei hadden ete, thei dwelliden there.
Exodus 18:12, Exodus 18:12, Genesis 37:25, 2 Samuel 3:20, 2 Samuel 3:21
55Forsothe Laban roos bi nyyt, and kisside his sones, and douytris, and blesside hem, and turnede ayen in to his place.
Genesis 31:28, Genesis 31:28, Genesis 18:33, Genesis 30:25, Genesis 18:33

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