³ Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.

⁴ He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks,

⁵ And said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me.

⁶ And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power.

⁷ Yea, your father also hath overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.

⁸ If at any time he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white ones for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones.

⁹ And God hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me.

¹⁰ For after that time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep that the males which leaped upon the females were of divers colours, and spotted, and speckled.

¹¹ And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob? And I answered: Here I am.

¹² And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers colours, spotted, and speckled. For I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee.

¹³ I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country.

¹⁴ And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father's house?

¹⁵ Hath he not counted us as strangers and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?

¹⁶ But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore do all that God hath commanded thee.

³ To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.

⁴ Haughtiness of the eyes is the enlarging of the heart: the lamp of the wicked is sin.

⁵ The thoughts of the industrious always bring forth abundance: but every sluggard is always in want.

⁶ He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death.

⁷ The robberies of the wicked shall be their downfall, because they would not do judgment.

⁸ The perverse way of a man is strange: but as for him that is pure, his work is right.

⁹ It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling women, and in a common house.

¹⁰ The soul of the wicked desireth evil, he will not have pity on his neighbour.

¹¹ When a pestilent man is punished, the little one will be wiser: and if he follow the wise, he will receive knowledge.

¹² The just considereth seriously the house of the wicked, that he may withdraw the wicked from evil.

¹³ He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself and shall not be heard.

¹⁴ A secret present quencheth anger: and a gift in the bosom the greatest wrath.

¹⁵ It is joy to the just to do judgment: and dread to them that work iniquity.

¹⁶ A man that shall wander out of the way of doctrine, shall abide in the company of the giants.

¹⁷ He that loveth good cheer, shall be in want: he that loveth wine, and fat things, shall not be rich.

¹⁸ The wicked is delivered up for the just: and the unjust for the righteous.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.

²⁰ There is a treasure to be desired, and oil in the dwelling of the just: and the foolish man shall spend it.

²¹ He that followeth justice and mercy, shall find life, justice, and glory.