Genesis:31-32
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And he heard the words of Laban '
s sons ,
saying ,
Jacob hath taken away all that was our father '
s ;
and of that which was our father '
s hath he gotten all this glory .
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And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban ,
and ,
behold ,
it was not toward him as before .
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And the LORD said unto Jacob ,
Return unto the land of thy fathers ,
and to thy kindred ;
and I will be with thee .
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And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock ,
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And said unto them ,
I see your father '
s countenance ,
that it is not toward me as before ;
but the God of my father hath been with me .
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And ye know that with all my power I have served your father .
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And your father hath deceived me ,
and changed my wages ten times ;
but God suffered him not to hurt me .
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If he said thus ,
The speckled shall be thy wages ;
then all the cattle bare speckled :
and if he said thus ,
The ringstraked shall be thy hire ;
then bare all the cattle ringstraked .
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Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father ,
and given them to me .
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And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived ,
that I lifted up mine eyes ,
and saw in a dream ,
and ,
behold ,
the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked ,
speckled ,
and grisled .
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And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream ,
saying ,
Jacob :
And I said ,
Here am I .
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And he said ,
Lift up now thine eyes ,
and see ,
all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked ,
speckled ,
and grisled :
for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee .
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I am the God of Bethel ,
where thou anointedst the pillar ,
and where thou vowedst a vow unto me :
now arise ,
get thee out from this land ,
and return unto the land of thy kindred .
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And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him ,
Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father '
s house ?
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Are we not counted of him strangers ?
for he hath sold us ,
and hath quite devoured also our money .
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For all the riches which God hath taken from our father ,
that is ours ,
and our children '
s :
now then ,
whatsoever God hath said unto thee ,
do .
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Then Jacob rose up ,
and set his sons and his wives upon camels ;
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And he carried away all his cattle ,
and all his goods which he had gotten ,
the cattle of his getting ,
which he had gotten in Padanaram ,
for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan .
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And Laban went to shear his sheep :
and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father '
s .
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And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian ,
in that he told him not that he fled .
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So he fled with all that he had ;
and he rose up ,
and passed over the river ,
and set his face toward the mount Gilead .
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And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled .
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And he took his brethren with him ,
and pursued after him seven days '
journey ;
and they overtook him in the mount Gilead .
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And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night ,
and said unto him ,
Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad .
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Then Laban overtook Jacob .
Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount :
and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead .
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And Laban said to Jacob ,
What hast thou done ,
that thou hast stolen away unawares to me ,
and carried away my daughters ,
as captives taken with the sword ?
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Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly ,
and steal away from me ;
and didst not tell me ,
that I might have sent thee away with mirth ,
and with songs ,
with tabret ,
and with harp ?
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And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters ?
thou hast now done foolishly in so doing .
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It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt :
but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight ,
saying ,
Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad .
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And now ,
though thou wouldest needs be gone ,
because thou sore longedst after thy father '
s house ,
yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods ?
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And Jacob answered and said to Laban ,
Because I was afraid :
for I said ,
Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me .
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With whomsoever thou findest thy gods ,
let him not live :
before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me ,
and take it to thee .
For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them .
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And Laban went into Jacob '
s tent ,
and into Leah '
s tent ,
and into the two maidservants '
tents ;
but he found them not .
Then went he out of Leah '
s tent ,
and entered into Rachel '
s tent .
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Now Rachel had taken the images ,
and put them in the camel '
s furniture ,
and sat upon them .
And Laban searched all the tent ,
but found them not .
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And she said to her father ,
Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee ;
for the custom of women is upon me .
And he searched ,
but found not the images .
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And Jacob was wroth ,
and chode with Laban :
and Jacob answered and said to Laban ,
What is my trespass ?
what is my sin ,
that thou hast so hotly pursued after me ?
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Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff ,
what hast thou found of all thy household stuff ?
set it here before my brethren and thy brethren ,
that they may judge betwixt us both .
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This twenty years have I been with thee ;
thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young ,
and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten .
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That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee ;
I bare the loss of it ;
of my hand didst thou require it ,
whether stolen by day ,
or stolen by night .
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Thus I was ;
in the day the drought consumed me ,
and the frost by night ;
and my sleep departed from mine eyes .
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Thus have I been twenty years in thy house ;
I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters ,
and six years for thy cattle :
and thou hast changed my wages ten times .
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Except the God of my father ,
the God of Abraham ,
and the fear of Isaac ,
had been with me ,
surely thou hadst sent me away now empty .
God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands ,
and rebuked thee yesternight .
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And Laban answered and said unto Jacob ,
These daughters are my daughters ,
and these children are my children ,
and these cattle are my cattle ,
and all that thou seest is mine :
and what can I do this day unto these my daughters ,
or unto their children which they have born ?
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Now therefore come thou ,
let us make a covenant ,
I and thou ;
and let it be for a witness between me and thee .
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And Jacob took a stone ,
and set it up for a pillar .
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And Jacob said unto his brethren ,
Gather stones ;
and they took stones ,
and made an heap :
and they did eat there upon the heap .
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And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha :
but Jacob called it Galeed .
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And Laban said ,
This heap is a witness between me and thee this day .
Therefore was the name of it called Galeed ;
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And Mizpah ;
for he said ,
The LORD watch between me and thee ,
when we are absent one from another .
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If thou shalt afflict my daughters ,
or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters ,
no man is with us ;
see ,
God is witness betwixt me and thee .
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And Laban said to Jacob ,
Behold this heap ,
and behold this pillar ,
which I have cast betwixt me and thee ;
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This heap be witness ,
and this pillar be witness ,
that I will not pass over this heap to thee ,
and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me ,
for harm .
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The God of Abraham ,
and the God of Nahor ,
the God of their father ,
judge betwixt us .
And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac .
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Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount ,
and called his brethren to eat bread :
and they did eat bread ,
and tarried all night in the mount .
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And early in the morning Laban rose up ,
and kissed his sons and his daughters ,
and blessed them :
and Laban departed ,
and returned unto his place .
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And Jacob went on his way ,
and the angels of God met him .
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And when Jacob saw them ,
he said ,
This is God '
s host :
and he called the name of that place Mahanaim .
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And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir ,
the country of Edom .
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And he commanded them ,
saying ,
Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau ;
Thy servant Jacob saith thus ,
I have sojourned with Laban ,
and stayed there until now :
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And I have oxen ,
and asses ,
flocks ,
and menservants ,
and womenservants :
and I have sent to tell my lord ,
that I may find grace in thy sight .
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And the messengers returned to Jacob ,
saying ,
We came to thy brother Esau ,
and also he cometh to meet thee ,
and four hundred men with him .
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Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed :
and he divided the people that was with him ,
and the flocks ,
and herds ,
and the camels ,
into two bands ;
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And said ,
If Esau come to the one company ,
and smite it ,
then the other company which is left shall escape .
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And Jacob said ,
O God of my father Abraham ,
and God of my father Isaac ,
the LORD which saidst unto me ,
Return unto thy country ,
and to thy kindred ,
and I will deal well with thee :
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I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies ,
and of all the truth ,
which thou hast shewed unto thy servant ;
for with my staff I passed over this Jordan ;
and now I am become two bands .
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Deliver me ,
I pray thee ,
from the hand of my brother ,
from the hand of Esau :
for I fear him ,
lest he will come and smite me ,
and the mother with the children .
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And thou saidst ,
I will surely do thee good ,
and make thy seed as the sand of the sea ,
which cannot be numbered for multitude .
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And he lodged there that same night ;
and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother ;
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Two hundred she goats ,
and twenty he goats ,
two hundred ewes ,
and twenty rams ,
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Thirty milch camels with their colts ,
forty kine ,
and ten bulls ,
twenty she asses ,
and ten foals .
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And he delivered them into the hand of his servants ,
every drove by themselves ;
and said unto his servants ,
Pass over before me ,
and put a space betwixt drove and drove .
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And he commanded the foremost ,
saying ,
When Esau my brother meeteth thee ,
and asketh thee ,
saying ,
Whose art thou ?
and whither goest thou ?
and whose are these before thee ?
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Then thou shalt say ,
They be thy servant Jacob '
s ;
it is a present sent unto my lord Esau :
and ,
behold ,
also he is behind us .
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And so commanded he the second ,
and the third ,
and all that followed the droves ,
saying ,
On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau ,
when ye find him .
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And say ye moreover ,
Behold ,
thy servant Jacob is behind us .
For he said ,
I will appease him with the present that goeth before me ,
and afterward I will see his face ;
peradventure he will accept of me .
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So went the present over before him :
and himself lodged that night in the company .
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And he rose up that night ,
and took his two wives ,
and his two womenservants ,
and his eleven sons ,
and passed over the ford Jabbok .
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And he took them ,
and sent them over the brook ,
and sent over that he had .
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And Jacob was left alone ;
and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day .
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And when he saw that he prevailed not against him ,
he touched the hollow of his thigh ;
and the hollow of Jacob '
s thigh was out of joint ,
as he wrestled with him .
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And he said ,
Let me go ,
for the day breaketh .
And he said ,
I will not let thee go ,
except thou bless me .
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And he said unto him ,
What is thy name ?
And he said ,
Jacob .
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And he said ,
Thy name shall be called no more Jacob ,
but Israel :
for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men ,
and hast prevailed .
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And Jacob asked him ,
and said ,
Tell me ,
I pray thee ,
thy name .
And he said ,
Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name ?
And he blessed him there .
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And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel :
for I have seen God face to face ,
and my life is preserved .
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And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him ,
and he halted upon his thigh .
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Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank ,
which is upon the hollow of the thigh ,
unto this day :
because he touched the hollow of Jacob '
s thigh in the sinew that shrank .
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And Jacob lifted up his eyes ,
and looked ,
and ,
behold ,
Esau came ,
and with him four hundred men .
And he divided the children unto Leah ,
and unto Rachel ,
and unto the two handmaids .
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