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     * sent away Jacob.
       Whoever observes Jacob's life, after he had surreptitiously
       obtained his father's blessing, will perceive that he enjoyed
       very little worldly felicity.  His brother purposed to murder
       him, to avoid which he was forced to flee from his father's
       house; his uncle Laban deceived him, as he had deceived his
       father, and treated him with great rigour; after a servitude
       of 21; years, he was obliged to leave him in a clandestine
       manner, not without danger of being brought back, or murdered
       by his enraged brother; no sooner were these fears over, than
       he experienced the baseness of his son Reuben, in defiling his
       bed; he had next to bewail the treachery and cruelty of Simeon
       and Levi toward the Shechemites; then he had to feel the loss
       of his beloved wife; he was next imposed upon by his own sons,
       and had to lament the supposed untimely end of Joseph; and to
       complete all, he was forced by famine to go into Egypt, and
       there died, in a strange land.  So just, wonderful, and
       instructive are all the ways of Providence!

     * Padan-aram.
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