his pardon.

10. But Laban, after one day's time, being acquainted with Jacob's and
his daughters' departure, was much troubled, and pursued after them,
leading a band of men with him; and on the seventh day overtook them,
and found them resting on a certain hill; and then indeed he did not
meddle with them, for it was even-tide; but God stood by him in a
dream, and warned him to receive his son-in-law and his daughters in a
peaceable manner; and not to venture upon any thing rashly, or in wrath
to but to make a league with Jacob. And he him, that if he despised
their small number, attacked them in a hostile manner, he would assist
them. When Laban had been thus forewarned by God, he called Jacob to him
the next day, in order to treat with him, and showed him what dream he
had; in dependence whereupon he came confidently to him, and began to
accuse him, alleging that he had entertained him when he was poor, and
in want of all things, and had given him plenty of all things which he
had. "For," said he, "I have joined my daughters to thee in marriage,
and supposed that thy kindness to me be greater than before; but thou
hast had no regard to either thy mother's relations to me, nor to the
affinity now newly contracted between us; nor to those wives whom thou
hast married; nor to those children, of whom I am the grandfather. Thou
hast treated me as an enemy, driving away my cattle, and by persuading
my daughters to run away from their father; and by carrying home those
sacred paternal images which were worshipped by my forefathers, and have
been honored with the like worship which they paid them by myself. In
short, thou hast done this whilst thou art my kinsman, and my sister's
son, and the husband of my daughters, and was hospitably treated by me,
and didst eat at my table." When Laban had said this, Jacob made his
defense--That he was not the only person in whom God had implanted the
love of his native country, but that he had made it natural to all men;
and that therefore it was but reasonable that, after so long time, he
should go back to it. "But as to the prey, of whose driving away thou
accusest me, if any other person were the arbitrator, thou wouldst be
found in the wrong; for instead of those thanks I ought to have had from
thee, for both keeping thy cattle, and increasing them, how is it that
thou art unjustly angry at me because I have taken, and have with me, a
small portion of them? But then, as to thy daught