The famous and memorable works of Josephus ... / Faithfully translated out of the Latin, and French, by Thomas Lodge, Doctor in Physick.

Josephus

Date:: [1640]

Credit: The famous and memorable works of Josephus ... / Faithfully translated out of the Latin, and French, by Thomas Lodge, Doctor in Physick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$/ TY, On XJ. omm cL a ] OF THE JEWS. THE II. BOOK. MEUS took them, in having recourfe to them, fhe might obtain pardon. But Laban, a day after the Teyeref the departure of Iacob and his wives, had notice thereof ; and being therewith fore agrieved,he P chills 1 purfued after them, intending toaffail them by force, and on the feventh day he overtook mativity, 1758. them ,upona certain hil where they fat chem down to take their reft,in that it was evenin g: LAS but God appearing to himin a dream, gavehim counfelltoufe no violence, neither to 24 . ; & ] bra: 7 Laban purfu= wards his fonne in law, nor his daughters ; but rather to pacifie his ire towards tem and t : O eth Jacob, but m himfrom is purpofe, cobto yeeld himfuccours. — . | aus TOL M i. The next day, after that La247 had received this oracle from the mouth of God, as foon as it was day he called Zacob unto him,to the end they might conferre together (hidingno-. ,; thing from him which the night before he had beheld in his dream. ) Asfoon as Iacob was Labansaccu-. come unto him underíafe conduct, he began toaccufe him; alledging that he had received ation againtt him into his houfe, at fach time as he came unto him being poor and naked of all means: ^^»: and how he had given him great abundance of goods. Ihave (faith he) given thee my daughters in marriage, hoping by that means to increafe thy love towards me more and more; but thou haft had neither refpect of thy mother, neither of the acquaintance or pa. rentage betwixt thee and me, neither ofthe wives which thou haft efpoufed, neither of thy children whofe grandfather I am;but haft dealt with me after an injuriousand hoftile man- ner, driving away that which appertained unto me,feducing my daughters to abandon him that begat them,and carry away my houfhold gods with them, which both Iand my prede- ceffours have ferved and honoured ; and even as much, as men of warre would not have done unto their enemies, that haft thou done unto me : yea thou that art my kinfman, my fifters fonne, the husband of my daughters, my pledge, and my familiar fervant, haft dealt — . : thus with me. On the other fide /acob alledged for himfelf ,that God had not onely Fate made impreffion in his heart, but that all men alfo are wholly addicted to the love of their te Labans ob- countrey; and that after fo long fpace of time, it feemed good unto him to vifit his native 9: foul. Andas concerning that crime (faith he) which thou objecteft againft me,as touching the prey, ifany other but thy felf be judge, thou fhalt be convicted to have dealt unjuftly I have made of thy goods, haft thou not doneus great wrong to envie us a little part and portion thereof? And as concerning thy daughters, know this, thatthey have not tollowed me by reafon they have been conveighed away by fubtiltie, but under that love and dutie which married wives bear unto their husbands: they donot therefore onely follow me, but they come after their children. Thefe thingsalledged. he for himfelf, Further he replyed 36 x andaccufed Laban, becaufe that being his mothers brother,and having given his daughters pea » to wife, he had notwithftanding kitterly vexed him by hisfevere commandnä#nts, under Laban. which he had been obedient eim ee {pace of twenty yeers, that the troubles he had en- dured under colour of marriage with Rachel had been cumberfome unto him; yet notwith- born him an envious affection or hoftile hatred, he could very well have efcaped. In effet y abans fibeill Labag had dealt moft malicioufly with I2cob. Forfeeing that God affifted him in all that he dealing with eriterprifed, Laban promifed to give himall the cattellthat were born white,and fometime J^» that which was brought forth black : and when as that which Jacob had named & chofendid — 54 : increafe, then did not Labaxz perform his promife unto him, but deferred him overtothe Labans a next yeers increafe, . by reafon he hadalwaies a refpect of the greater flock, and promifed tt, that which he hoped would not come to paffe, and which ifit fell contrary, he was ready to Gen.31.0.330 infringe. And.astouching the gods, he told him that he might makefearchforthem. . 434 This condition did Laban accept: but Rachel underftanding thereof, thruft the faid gods intoafack, and made them to be carried ona camels back, and fhe fate upon them, faying, that fhe was indifpofed; by reafon at that time fhe had her naturall purgations, And for this caufe Labandefifted from fearching any further, fuppofing his daughterbeing fo affected, would not conceal or fet her felffo neer things that were fo facred:and he made a covenant with Jacob, that none of them fhould call to remembrance the interchangeable unkindnef- fes that had paft betwixtthem; but that he fhould cherifh his daughters, all which tliey bound with an oath, This covenant was made upon a certain mountain, wheretheyreared Babs a pillar in che form ofan altar:whence it came to paffe thar this pillar was called Galaad,that 459*°s*72 isto fay, she hill of witnelfe , from whence the countrey of Galaad had taken his cu o | ! m € p unti ere$