The Life of Jacob and his son Joseph . furniture, and , besides this, Rachel had stolen herfathers images. These were called Tera-phim, and were a sort of idols, used bythe wretched heathen of that was wrong for Laban to own these,but it was also wrong for Rachel to pur-loin them. She did it without her hus-bands knowledge, and they became anoccasion of evil afterwards, as you will 50 LIFE OF JACOB, Laban immediately set out to pursue thefugitives, taking his brethren or kinsmenalong with him. In those countries ca-mels are the chief beasts of burden. Thecamel is l
The Life of Jacob and his son Joseph . furniture, and , besides this, Rachel had stolen herfathers images. These were called Tera-phim, and were a sort of idols, used bythe wretched heathen of that was wrong for Laban to own these,but it was also wrong for Rachel to pur-loin them. She did it without her hus-bands knowledge, and they became anoccasion of evil afterwards, as you will 50 LIFE OF JACOB, Laban immediately set out to pursue thefugitives, taking his brethren or kinsmenalong with him. In those countries ca-mels are the chief beasts of burden. Thecamel is large and strong, and is easilybroken, so as to be as gentle as a goes many days without water, andcarries great loads, and is not injured bythe heat or sand of the desert. A com-pany of camels and travellers, with theirtents, and cattle, and merchandise, is call-ed a caravan. Jacobus caravan was nowthree days in advance of Laban. Thewomen and children were mounted onthe camels, in panniers or saddles suchas you see in this AND HIS SON JOSEPH. 51 Laban knew very well that they wouldtake a southerly course, and travel asfast as they could through the desert ofSyria, towards the river Jordan. He, Bethel / Mt. Zion J Hebron ^^W^ N ::Si « Beersheba _y—^ ^jf^^K therefore, hastened in the same he could go almost twice as fast asJacobs caravan, which was hindered byhaving women, and herds, and younganimals. Hundreds of miles he had totravel before he overtook the the end of seven days, Laban reachedthe chain of mountains which runs northand south, on the east of Palestine, andis called there mount Gilead. But before 52 LIFE OF JACOB, he came up with them, God came to himin a dream, and commanded him not tosay one word to Jacob to hinder hisjourney. Both Laban and Jacob pitched theirtents among these mountains, which wereafterwards inhabited by the half tribe ofManasseh. They had a meeting accused Jacob, at once, of havinggone away se
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