Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
Then Jacob rose up. Little time is spent by pastoral people in removing. The striking down the tents and poles, and stowing them among their other baggage; the putting their wives and children in houdas like cradles, on the backs of camels, or in panniers on donkeys; and the ranging of the various parts of the flock in droves under the respective shepherds-all this is a short process. A plain that is covered in the morning with a long array of tents, and with browsing flocks, may, in a few hours, appear so desolate that not a vestige of the encampment remains, except the holes in which the tent-poles had been fixed.