Genesis:31-33

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* And he heard the words of Laban ' sons , saying , Jacob has taken away all that was our father '; and of that which was our father ' has he gotten all this glory . * And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban , and , behold , it was not toward him as before . * And the LORD said to Jacob , Return to the land of your fathers , and to your kindred ; and I will be with you . * And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock , * And said to them , I see your father ' countenance , that it is not toward me as before ; but the God of my father has been with me . * And you 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 suffered him not to hurt me . * If he said thus , The speckled shall be your wages ; then all the cattle bore speckled : and if he said thus , The ringstraked shall be your hire ; then bore all the cattle ringstraked . * 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 cattle conceived , that I lifted up my eyes , and saw in a dream , and , behold , the rams which leaped on the cattle were ringstraked , speckled , and spotted . * And the angel of God spoke to me in a dream , saying , Jacob : And I said , Here am I . * And he said , Lift up now your eyes , and see , all the rams which leap on the cattle are ringstraked , speckled , and spotted : for I have seen all that Laban does to you . * I am the God of Bethel , where you anointed the pillar , and where you vowed a vow to me : now arise , get you out from this land , and return to the land of your kindred . * And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him , Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father ' house ? * Are we not counted of him strangers ? for he has sold us , and has quite devoured also our money . * For all the riches which God has taken from our father , that is ours , and our children ': now then , whatever God has said to you , do . * Then Jacob rose up , and set his sons and his wives on camels ; * 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 . * And Laban went to shear his sheep : and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father '. * And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian , in that he told him not 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 mount Gilead . * And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled . * And he took his brothers with him , and pursued after him seven days 'journey ; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead . * And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night , and said to him , Take heed that you speak not to Jacob either good or bad . * Then Laban overtook Jacob . Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount : and Laban with his brothers pitched in the mount of Gilead . * And Laban said to Jacob , What have you done , that you have stolen away unawares to me , and carried away my daughters , as captives taken with the sword ? * Why did you flee away secretly , and steal away from me ; and did not tell me , that I might have sent you away with mirth , and with songs , with tabret , and with harp ? * And have not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters ? you have now done foolishly in so doing . * It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt : but the God of your father spoke to me last night , saying , Take you heed that you speak not to Jacob either good or bad . * And now , though you would needs be gone , because you sore longed after your father ' house , yet why have you stolen my gods ? * And Jacob answered and said to Laban , Because I was afraid : for I said , Peradventure you would take by force your daughters from me . * With whomsoever you find your gods , let him not live : before our brothers discern you what is your with me , and take it to you . For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them . * And Laban went into Jacob ' tent , and into Leah ' tent , and into the two maidservants 'tents ; but he found them not . Then went he out of Leah ' tent , and entered into Rachel ' tent . * Now Rachel had taken the images , and put them in the camel ' furniture , and sat on them . And Laban searched all the tent , but found them not . * And she said to her father , Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before you ; for the custom of women is on me . And he searched but found not the images . * And Jacob was wroth , and strived with Laban : and Jacob answered and said to Laban , What is my trespass ? what is my sin , that you have so hotly pursued after me ? * Whereas you have searched all my stuff , what have you found of all your household stuff ? set it here before my brothers and your brothers , that they may judge between us both . * This twenty years have I been with you ; your ewes and your she goats have not cast their young , and the rams of your flock have I not eaten . * That which was torn of beasts I brought not to you ; I bore the loss of it ; of my hand did you require 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 departed from my eyes . * Thus have I been twenty years in your house ; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters , and six years for your cattle : and you have changed my wages ten times . * Except the God of my father , the God of Abraham , and the fear of Isaac , had been with me , surely you had sent me away now empty . God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands , and rebuked you last night . * And Laban answered and said to Jacob , These daughters are my daughters , and these children are my children , and these cattle are my cattle , and all that you see is mine : and what can I do this day to these my daughters , or to their children which they have born ? * Now therefore come you , let us make a covenant , I and you ; and let it be for a witness between me and you . * 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 an heap : and they did eat there on the heap . * And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha : but Jacob called it Galeed . * And Laban said , This heap is a witness between me and you this day . Therefore was the name of it called Galeed ; * And Mizpah ; for he said , The LORD watch between me and you , when we are absent one from another . * If you shall afflict my daughters , or if you shall take other wives beside my daughters , no man is with us ; see , God is witness between me and you . * And Laban said to Jacob , Behold this heap , and behold this pillar , which I have cast between me and you : * This heap be witness , and this pillar be witness , that I will not pass over this heap to you , and that you 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 . * Then Jacob offered sacrifice on the mount , and called his brothers to eat bread : and they did eat bread , and tarried all night in the mount . * 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 . * And Jacob went on his way , and the angels of God met him . * And when Jacob saw them , he said , This is God ' host : and he called the name of that place Mahanaim . * And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir , the country of Edom . * And he commanded them , saying , Thus shall you speak to my lord Esau ; Your servant Jacob said thus , I have sojourned with Laban , and stayed there until now : * 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 your sight . * And the messengers returned to Jacob , saying , We came to your brother Esau , and also he comes to meet you , and four hundred men with him . * 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 ; * And said , If Esau come to the one company , and smite it , then the other company which is left shall escape . * And Jacob said , O God of my father Abraham , and God of my father Isaac , the LORD which said to me , Return to your country , and to your kindred , and I will deal well with you : * I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies , and of all the truth , which you have showed to your servant ; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan ; and now I am become two bands . * Deliver me , I pray you , 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 . * And you said , I will surely do you good , and make your seed as the sand of the sea , which cannot be numbered for multitude . * And he lodged there that same night ; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother ; * Two hundred she goats , and twenty he goats , two hundred ewes , and twenty rams , * Thirty milk camels with their colts , forty cows , and ten bulls , twenty she asses , and ten foals . * And he delivered them into the hand of his servants , every drove by themselves ; and said to his servants , Pass over before me , and put a space between drove and drove . * And he commanded the foremost , saying , When Esau my brother meets you , and asks you , saying , Whose are you ? and where go you ? and whose are these before you ? * Then you shall say , They be your servant Jacob '; it is a present sent to my lord Esau : and , behold , also he is behind us . * And so commanded he the second , and the third , and all that followed the droves , saying , On this manner shall you speak to Esau , when you find him . * And say you moreover , Behold , your servant Jacob is behind us . For he said , I will appease him with the present that goes before me , and afterward I will see his face ; peradventure he will accept of me . * So went the present over before him : and himself lodged that night in the company . * 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 . * And he took them , and sent them over the brook , and sent over that he had . * And Jacob was left alone ; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day . * And when he saw that he prevailed not against him , he touched the hollow of his thigh ; and the hollow of Jacob ' thigh was out of joint , as he wrestled with him . * And he said , Let me go , for the day breaks . And he said , I will not let you go , except you bless me . * And he said to him , What is your name ? And he said , Jacob . * And he said , Your name shall be called no more Jacob , but Israel : for as a prince have you power with God and with men , and have prevailed . * And Jacob asked him , and said , Tell me , I pray you , your name . And he said , Why is it that you do ask after my name ? And he blessed him there . * And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel : for I have seen God face to face , and my life is preserved . * And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose on him , and he halted on his thigh . * Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank , which is on the hollow of the thigh , to this day : because he touched the hollow of Jacob ' thigh in the sinew that shrank . * And Jacob lifted up his eyes , and looked , and , behold , Esau came , and with him four hundred men . And he divided the children to Leah , and to Rachel , and to the two handmaids . * And he put the handmaids and their children foremost , and Leah and her children after , and Rachel and Joseph last . * And he passed over before them , and bowed himself to the ground seven times , until he came near to his brother . * And Esau ran to meet him , and embraced him , and fell on his neck , and kissed him : and they wept . * And he lifted up his eyes , and saw the women and the children ; and said , Who are those with you ? And he said , The children which God has graciously given your servant . * Then the handmaidens came near , they and their children , and they bowed themselves . * And Leah also with her children came near , and bowed themselves : and after came Joseph near and Rachel , and they bowed themselves . * And he said , What mean you by all this drove which I met ? And he said , These are to find grace in the sight of my lord . * And Esau said , I have enough , my brother ; keep that you have to yourself . * And Jacob said , No , I pray you , if now I have found grace in your sight , then receive my present at my hand : for therefore I have seen your face , as though I had seen the face of God , and you were pleased with me . * Take , I pray you , my blessing that is brought to you ; because God has dealt graciously with me , and because I have enough . And he urged him , and he took it . * And he said , Let us take our journey , and let us go , and I will go before you . * And he said to him , My lord knows that the children are tender , and the flocks and herds with young are with me : and if men should overdrive them one day , all the flock will die . * Let my lord , I pray you , pass over before his servant : and I will lead on softly , according as the cattle that goes before me and the children be able to endure , until I come to my lord to Seir . * And Esau said , Let me now leave with you some of the folk that are with me . And he said , What needs it ? let me find grace in the sight of my lord . * So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir . * And Jacob journeyed to Succoth , and built him an house , and made booths for his cattle : therefore the name of the place is called Succoth . * And Jacob came to Shalem , a city of Shechem , which is in the land of Canaan , when he came from Padanaram ; and pitched his tent before the city . * And he bought a parcel of a field , where he had spread his tent , at the hand of the children of Hamor , Shechem ' father , for an hundred pieces of money . * And he erected there an altar , and called it EleloheIsrael . * And Dinah the daughter of Leah , which she bore to Jacob , went out to see the daughters of the land .

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