and spotted cattle
for his hire.
ðo ſulen him ben for hire numen;
Sep or got, haſwed, arled, or grei,
Ben don fro iacob fer a-wei; 1724
The flocks produced
many
speckled and
spotted.
ðog him boren ðes oneſ bles
Vn-like manige and likeles.
Laban was
greatly displeased.
ðo ſag laban ðat iacob bi-gat
Michil, and him miſlikede ðat; 1728
He changed
Jacob's hire.
bi-tagte him ðo ðe ſunder bles,
And it him boren ones bles.
Ten times within
six years he
shifted the cattle.
Ten ſiðes ðus binnen .vi. ger,
Shiftede iacob hirdeneſſe her, 1732
And ai was labaneſ herte ſor,
for hiſ agte wex mor & mor.
Jacob saw that
Laban was unfriendly
towards
him,
Ðo ſag iacob laban wurð wroð,
Vnder him ben leng iſ hi_m_ loð, 1736
so he determined
to leave Padanaram.
And wið iſ wiues he takeð red,
And greiðet him deðenward[184] wið ſped.
Laban had left
Haran to shear
his sheep.
Laban ferde to nimen kep,
In clipping time to hiſe ſep, 1740
fro caram in-to vten ſtede,
ðor q_u_iles iacob ðiſ dede dede;
Wið wiues, and childre, & orf he nam,
Jacob came to
mount Gilead,