She was rather close-fisted in money matters and offered him only fifty dollars, but she had to raise her price till it rose to three hundred.

It reflects a system of the fratriarchy; his father Jesse had already retired (see 17:12; also Laban's role in Gen. 24:50). Note that McCarter too quickly emends the text to the plural “my brothers” following LXX and 4QSamb.

More venemous and much more virulent / Then any poyſoned tode, or any ſerpent.

Our relationship was quite a rollercoaster. Finally, I had enough of it and left her.