Genesis:31

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* And he heard the words of Laban 's sons , saying , Jacob has taken away all that was our father 's , and he has gotten all this glory of that which was our father 's . * And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban , and , behold , it was not toward him as beforetime . * And LORD said to Jacob , Return to the land of thy fathers , and to thy kindred , and I will be with thee . * And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock , * and said to them , I see your father 's countenance , that it is not toward me as beforetime , but the God of my father has been with me . * And ye know that with all my power I have served your father . * And your father has deceived me , and changed my wages ten times , but God did not allow him to hurt me . * If he said thus , The speckled shall be thy wages , then all the flock bore speckled , and if he said thus , The ringstreaked shall be thy wages , then all the flock bore ringstreaked . * Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father , and given them to me . * And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceive , that I lifted up my eyes , and saw in a dream , and , behold , the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were ringstreaked , speckled , and grizzled . * And the agent of God said to me in the dream , Jacob . And I said , Here I am . * And he said , Lift up now thine eyes , and see , all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are ringstreaked , speckled , and grizzled , for I have seen all that Laban does to thee . * I am the God of Bethel , where thou anointed a pillar , where thou vowed a vow to me . Now arise , get thee out from this land , and return to the land of thy nativity . * And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him , Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father 's house ? * Are we not accounted by him as foreigners ? For he has sold us , and has also quite devoured our money . * For all the riches which God has taken away from our father , that is ours and our children 's . Now then , whatever God has said to thee , do . * Then Jacob rose up , and set his sons and his wives upon the camels . * And he carried away all his cattle , and all his substance which he had gathered , the cattle of his getting , which he had gathered in Paddan-aram , to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan . * Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep , and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father 's . * And Jacob slipped away unawares to Laban the Syrian , in that he did not tell him that he fled . * So he fled with all that he had . And he rose up , and passed over the River , and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead . * And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled . * And he took his brothers with him , and pursued after him seven days ' journey , and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead . * And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night , and said to him , Take heed to thyself that thou not speak to Jacob either good or bad . * And Laban came up with Jacob . Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain . And Laban encamped with his brothers in the mountain of Gilead . * And Laban said to Jacob , What have thou done , that thou have slipped away unawares to me , and carried away my daughters as captives of the sword ? * Why did thou flee secretly , and creep away from me , and did not tell me , that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs , with tambourine and with harp , * and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters ? Now thou have done foolishly . * It is in the power of my hand to do you harm , but the God of your father spoke to me last night , saying , Take heed to thyself that thou not speak to Jacob either good or bad . * And now , [though ] thou have certainly gone , because thou have been very desirous for thy father 's house , [yet ] why have thou stolen my gods ? * And Jacob answered and said to Laban , Because I was afraid , for I said , Lest thou should take thy daughters from me by force . * With whomever thou find thy gods , he shall not live . Before our brothers discern thou what is thine with me , and take it to thee . For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them . * And Laban went into Jacob 's tent , and into Leah 's tent , and into the tent of the two maid-servants , but he did not find them . And he went out of Leah 's tent , and entered into Rachel 's tent . * Now Rachel had taken the teraphim , and put them in the camel 's saddle , and sat upon them . And Laban felt around all the tent , but did not find them . * And she said to her father , Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee , for the manner of women is upon me . And he searched , but did not find the teraphim . * And Jacob was angry , and chided with Laban . And Jacob answered and said to Laban , What is my trespass ? What is my sin that thou have hotly pursued after me ? * Whereas thou have felt around all my stuff , what have thou found of all thy household stuff ? Set it here before my brothers and thy brothers , that they may judge between us two . * These twenty years I have been with thee , thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young , and I have not eaten the rams of thy flocks . * I did not bring to thee that which was torn by beasts ; I bore the loss of it , of my hand thou required it , whether stolen by day or stolen by night . * Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me , and the frost by night , and my sleep fled from my eyes . * These twenty years I have been in thy house . I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters , and six years for thy flock . And thou have changed my wages ten times . * Unless the God of my father , the God of Abraham , and the fear of Isaac , had been with me , surely now thou would have sent me away empty . God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands , and rebuked thee last night . * And Laban answered and said to Jacob , The daughters are my daughters , and the sons are my sons , and the flocks are my flocks , and all that thou see is mine . And what can I do this day to these my daughters , or to their sons whom th * And now come , let us make a covenant , I and thou , and let it be for a witness between me and thee . * And Jacob took a stone , and set it up for a pillar . * And Jacob said to his brothers , Gather stones , and they took stones , and made a heap . And they ate there by the heap . * And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha , but Jacob called it Galeed . * And Laban said , This heap is witness between me and thee this day . Therefore the name of it was called Galeed , * and Mizpah . For he said , May LORD watch between me and thee , when we are absent one from another , * if thou will afflict my daughters , and if thou will take wives besides my daughters , no man is with us , see , God is witness between me and thee . * And Laban said to Jacob , Behold this heap , and behold the pillar , which I have set between me and thee . * This heap is witness , and the pillar is witness , that I will not pass over this heap to thee , and that thou shall not pass over this heap and this pillar to me , for harm . * The God of Abraham , and the God of Nahor , the God of their father , judge between us . And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac . * And Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain , and called his brothers to eat bread . And they ate bread , and tarried all night on the mountain . * And early in the morning Laban rose up , and kissed his sons and his daughters , and blessed them . And Laban departed and returned to his place .

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