He, saying this, knew not that Rachel had stolen her father’s gods.  Then Laban entered the tabernacle of Jacob and Leah, and sought and found nothing.  And when he came into the tabernacle of Rachel, she hied her and hid the idols under the litter of her camel and sat upon it.  And he sought and found nought.  Then said Rachel:  Let not my lord be wroth for I may not arise to thee, for sickness is fallen to me, and so she deceived her father.  Then Jacob, being angry and grudging, said to Laban:  What is my trespass and what have I sinned to thee that thou hast pursued me, and hast searched everything?  What hast thou now founden of all the substance of thy house?  Lay it forth tofore my brethren and thy brethren, that they judge between me and thee.  I have served thee twenty years and have been with thee, thy sheep and thy goats were never barren.  I have eaten no wethers of thy flock, nor beast hath destroyed none.  I shall make all good what was stolen.  I prayed therefore day and night, I labored both in heat and in cold, sleep fled from mine eyes.  Thus I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters and six for thy flocks.  Thou hast changed mine hire and reward ten times.  But if the God of my father Abraham and the dread of Isaac had been with me, haply thou wouldst now have left me naked.  Our Lord God hath beholden mine affliction and the labor of mine hands and reproved thee yesterday.  Laban answered to him:  My daughters and sons, and thy flocks, and all that thou beholdest are thine, what may I do to my sons and nephews?  Let us now be friends, and make we a fast league and confederacy together.  Then Jacob raised a stone, and raised it in token of friendship and peace, and so they ate together in friendship, and sware each to other to abide in love ever after.  And after this Laban arose in the night, and kissed his daughters and sons, and blessed them, and returned into his country.

Jacob went forth in his journey that he had taken.  Angels of God met him, which when he saw, he said:  These be the castles of God, and called that place Mahanaim.  He sent messengers tofore him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, in the land of Edom, and bade them say thus to Esau:  This saith thy brother Jacob:  I have dwelled with Laban unto this day, I have oxen and asses, servants both men and women.  I send now a legation unto my lord that I may find grace in his sight.  These messengers returned to Jacob and said:  We came to Esau thy brother, and lo! he cometh for to meet thee with four hundred men.  Jacob was sore afraid then, and divided his company into twain turmes [two troops], saying:  If Esau come to that one and destroy that, that other shall yet be saved.  Then said Jacob:  O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord that saidst to me, return into thy land and place of thy nativity, and saidst I shall do well to thee, I am the least in all thy mercies, and in thy truth that thou hast granted to thy servant, with