My Children

My Children

And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely - by thee.

Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.

Give me - my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest - my service which I have done thee.

cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And Laban said unto him, - I pray - thee, - if I have found favour in thine eyes, - tarry: for I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blessed me - for thy sake.

And he said, Appoint me - thy wages, and I will give it.

And he said unto him, Thou knowest – how - I have served thee, and how thy cattle - was with me.

For it was little which thou hadst be-fore - I came, - and it is now - increased unto a multitude; and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide - for mine own house also?

And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep,

that Cain - rose up - against Abel his brother, and slew him.

And Adam - knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth:

For God, - said she, hath appointed me an-other seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, - I have made Abram rich:

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.

and  darkness was upon the face of the deep.

Thou preparedst room be-fore it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

Thou covered-st it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands,

These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.

Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.

And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas:

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.

Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness - because of mine enemies; make thy way straight – be-fore my face.

So shall - my righteousness answer for me - in time to come, when it shall come - for my hire – be-fore 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 he re-moved that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she 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.

Joseph

Now Israel loved Jo-setph - more than all his children, because he was the son of his - old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

Samuel