happy are these thy servants

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How-be-it I believed not the words,

until I came,

and mine eyes had seen it:

and,

behold,

the half was not told me:

thy wisdom - and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.

Happy are thy men,

happy are these thy servants,

which stand continually before thee,

and that hear thy wisdom.

Blessed be the Lord thy God,

which delighted in thee,

to set thee on the throne of Israel:

because the Lord loved Israel for ever, there-fore made he thee king,

to do judgment - and justice.

And he said, What shall I give thee?

And Jacob said,

Thou shalt not give me any thing:

if thou wilt do this thing for me,

I will again feed -- and keep thy flock.

I will pass through all thy flock today,

re-moving from thence all the speckled

and spotted cattle,

and all the brown cattle among the sheep,

and the spotted

and speckled among the goats:

and of such shall be my hire.

So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face:

every one that is not speckled

and spotted among the goats,

and brown among the sheep,

that shall be counted stolen with me.

And Laban said,

Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.

And Cain knew his wife;

and she conceived,

and bare Enoch:

and he builded a city,

and called the name of the city,

after the name of his son,

Enoch.

And Noah went in,

and his sons,

and his wife,

and his sons' wives with him,

into the ark,

because of the waters of the flood.

And he re-moved that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted,

and all the s-he goats that were speckled and spotted,

and every one that had some white in it,

and all the brown among the sheep,

and gave them into the hand of his sons.

Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.

And he set three days' journey betwixt himself - and Jacob:

and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them

And to every beast of the earth,

and to every fowl of the air,

and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

where-in there is life,

I have given every green her-b for meat:

and it w-as so.

*****

And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron,

Take thy rod,

and cast it before Pharaoh,

and it shall become a serpent.

And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh,

and they did so as the Lord had commanded:

and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh,

and before his servants,

and it became a serpent.

Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: 

now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.

For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them;

as the Lord had said.

*****

And Jacob took him rods of green poplar,

and of the hazel - and chestnut tree;

and pilled white streaks in them,

and made the white appear which was in the rods.

And he set the rods which he had pilled - before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should – conceive - when they came to drink.

And the flocks conceived before the rods,

and brought forth cattle ringstraked,

speckled,

and spotted.

And Jacob did separate the lambs,

and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked,

and all the brown in the flock of Laban;

and he put his own flocks by them-selves,

and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

And it came to pass,

when-so-ever the stronger cattle did conceive,

that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters,

that they might conceive among the rods.

But when t-he cattle were feeble,

he put them not in:

so the feebler were Laban's,

and t-he stronger Jacob's.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.

And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him?

yea, and he shall be blessed.

And the man increased exceedingly,

and had much cattle,

and maidservants,

and menservants,

and camels,

and asses.

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