Genesis:31-33

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ylt @Genesis:31:1 @And he heareth the words of Laban 's sons , saying , 'Jacob hath taken all that our father hath ; yea , from that which our father hath , he hath made all this honour ;' ylt @Genesis:31:2 @and Jacob seeth the face of Laban , and lo , it is not with him as heretofore . ylt @Genesis:31:3 @And Jehovah saith unto Jacob , 'Turn back unto the land of thy fathers , and to thy kindred , and I am with thee .' ylt @Genesis:31:4 @And Jacob sendeth and calleth for Rachel and for Leah to the field unto his flock ; ylt @Genesis:31:5 @and saith to them , 'I am beholding your father 's face -- that it is not towards me as heretofore , and the God of my father hath been with me , ylt @Genesis:31:6 @and ye -- ye have known that with all my power I have served your father , ylt @Genesis:31:7 @and your father hath played upon me , and hath changed my hire ten times ; and God hath not suffered him to do evil with me . ylt @Genesis:31:8 @'If he say thus : The speckled are thy hire , then bare all the flock speckled ones ; and if he say thus : The ring-straked are thy hire , then bare all the flock ring-straked ; ylt @Genesis:31:9 @and God taketh away the substance of your father , and doth give to me . ylt @Genesis:31:10 @'And it cometh to pass at the time of the flock conceiving , that I lift up mine eyes and see in a dream , and lo , the he-goats , which are going up on the flock , [are ] ring-straked , speckled , and grisled ; ylt @Genesis:31:11 @and the messenger of God saith unto me in the dream , Jacob , and I say , Here [am ] I . ylt @Genesis:31:12 @'And He saith , Lift up , I pray thee , thine eyes , and see -- all the he-goats which are going up on the flock [are ] ring-straked , speckled , and grisled , for I have seen all that Laban is doing to thee ; ylt @Genesis:31:13 @I [am ] the God of Bethel where thou hast anointed a standing pillar , where thou hast vowed a vow to me ; now , arise , go out from this land , and turn back unto the land of thy birth .' ylt @Genesis:31:14 @And Rachel answereth -- Leah also -- and saith to him , 'Have we yet a portion and inheritance in the house of our father ? ylt @Genesis:31:15 @have we not been reckoned strangers to him ? for he hath sold us , and he also utterly consumeth our money ; ylt @Genesis:31:16 @for all the wealth which God hath taken away from our father , it [is ] ours , and our children 's ; and now , all that God hath said unto thee -- do .' ylt @Genesis:31:17 @And Jacob riseth , and lifteth up his sons and his wives on the camels , ylt @Genesis:31:18 @and leadeth all his cattle , and all his substance which he hath acquired , the cattle of his getting , which he hath acquired in Padan-Aram , to go unto Isaac his father , to the land of Canaan . ylt @Genesis:31:19 @And Laban hath gone to shear his flock , and Rachel stealeth the teraphim which her father hath ; ylt @Genesis:31:20 @and Jacob deceiveth the heart of Laban the Aramaean , because he hath not declared to him that he is fleeing ; ylt @Genesis:31:21 @and he fleeth , he and all that he hath , and riseth , and passeth over the River , and setteth his face [toward ] the mount of Gilead . ylt @Genesis:31:22 @And it is told to Laban on the third day that Jacob hath fled , ylt @Genesis:31:23 @and he taketh his brethren with him , and pursueth after him a journey of seven days , and overtaketh him in the mount of Gilead . ylt @Genesis:31:24 @And God cometh in unto Laban the Aramaean in a dream of the night , and saith to him , 'Take heed to thyself lest thou speak with Jacob from good unto evil .' ylt @Genesis:31:25 @And Laban overtaketh Jacob ; and Jacob hath fixed his tent in the mount ; and Laban with his brethren have fixed [theirs ] in the mount of Gilead . ylt @Genesis:31:26 @And Laban saith to Jacob , 'What hast thou done that thou dost deceive my heart , and lead away my daughters as captives of the sword ? ylt @Genesis:31:27 @Why hast thou hidden thyself to flee , and deceivest me , and hast not declared to me , and I send thee away with joy and with songs , with tabret and with harp , ylt @Genesis:31:28 @and hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters ? -- now thou hast acted foolishly in doing [so ]; ylt @Genesis:31:29 @my hand is to God to do evil with you , but the God of your father yesternight hath spoken unto me , saying , Take heed to thyself from speaking with Jacob from good unto evil . ylt @Genesis:31:30 @'And now , thou hast certainly gone , because thou hast been very desirous for the house of thy father ; why hast thou stolen my gods ?' ylt @Genesis:31:31 @And Jacob answereth and saith to Laban , 'Because I was afraid , for I said , Lest thou take violently away thy daughters from me ; ylt @Genesis:31:32 @with whomsoever thou findest thy gods -- he doth not live ; before our brethren discern for thyself what [is ] with me , and take to thyself :' and Jacob hath not known that Rachel hath stolen them . ylt @Genesis:31:33 @And Laban goeth into the tent of Jacob , and into the tent of Leah , and into the tent of the two handmaidens , and hath not found ; and he goeth out from the tent of Leah , and goeth into the tent of Rachel . ylt @Genesis:31:34 @And Rachel hath taken the teraphim , and putteth them in the furniture of the camel , and sitteth upon them ; and Laban feeleth all the tent , and hath not found ; ylt @Genesis:31:35 @and she saith unto her father , 'Let it not be displeasing in the eyes of my lord that I am not able to rise at thy presence , for the way of women [is ] on me ;' and he searcheth , and hath not found the teraphim . ylt @Genesis:31:36 @And it is displeasing to Jacob , and he striveth with Laban ; and Jacob answereth and saith to Laban , 'What [is ] my transgression ? what my sin , that thou hast burned after me ? ylt @Genesis:31:37 @for thou hast felt all my vessels : what hast thou found of all the vessels of thy house ? set here before my brethren , and thy brethren , and they decide between us both . ylt @Genesis:31:38 @'These twenty years I [am ] with thee : thy ewes and thy she-goats have not miscarried , and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten ; ylt @Genesis:31:39 @the torn I have not brought in unto thee -- I , I repay it -- from my hand thou dost seek it ; I have been deceived by day , and I have been deceived by night ; ylt @Genesis:31:40 @I have been [thus ]: in the day consumed me hath drought , and frost by night , and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes . ylt @Genesis:31:41 @'This [is ] to me twenty years in thy house : I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters , and six years for thy flock ; and thou changest my hire ten times ; ylt @Genesis:31:42 @unless the God of my father , the God of Abraham , and the Fear of Isaac , had been for me , surely now empty thou hadst sent me away ; mine affliction and the labour of my hands hath God seen , and reproveth yesternight .' ylt @Genesis:31:43 @And Laban answereth and saith unto Jacob , 'The daughters [are ] my daughters , and the sons my sons , and the flock my flock , and all that thou art seeing [is ] mine ; and to my daughters -- what do I to these to-day , or to their sons whom they have born ? ylt @Genesis:31:44 @and now , come , let us make a covenant , I and thou , and it hath been for a witness between me and thee .' ylt @Genesis:31:45 @And Jacob taketh a stone , and lifteth it up [for ] a standing pillar ; ylt @Genesis:31:46 @and Jacob saith to his brethren , 'Gather stones ,' and they take stones , and make a heap ; and they eat there on the heap ; ylt @Genesis:31:47 @and Laban calleth it Jegar-Sahadutha ; and Jacob hath called it Galeed . ylt @Genesis:31:48 @And Laban saith , 'This heap [is ] witness between me and thee to-day ;' therefore hath he called its name Galeed ; ylt @Genesis:31:49 @Mizpah also , for he said , 'Jehovah doth watch between me and thee , for we are hidden one from another ; ylt @Genesis:31:50 @if thou afflict my daughters , or take wives beside my daughters -- there is no man with us -- see , God [is ] witness between me and thee .' ylt @Genesis:31:51 @And Laban saith to Jacob , 'Lo , this heap , and lo , the standing pillar which I have cast between me and thee ; ylt @Genesis:31:52 @this heap [is ] witness , and the standing pillar [is ] witness , that I do not pass over this heap unto thee , and that thou dost not pass over this heap and this standing pillar unto me -- for evil ; ylt @Genesis:31:53 @the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor , doth judge between us -- the God of their father ,' and Jacob sweareth by the Fear of his father Isaac . ylt @Genesis:31:54 @And Jacob sacrificeth a sacrifice in the mount , and calleth to his brethren to eat bread , and they eat bread , and lodge in the mount ; ylt @Genesis:31:55 @and Laban riseth early in the morning , and kisseth his sons and his daughters , and blesseth them ; and Laban goeth on , and turneth back to his place . ylt @Genesis:32:1 @And Jacob hath gone on his way , and messengers of God come upon him ; ylt @Genesis:32:2 @and Jacob saith , when he hath seen them , 'This [is ] the camp of God ;' and he calleth the name of that place 'Two Camps .' ylt @Genesis:32:3 @And Jacob sendeth messengers before him unto Esau his brother , towards the land of Seir , the field of Edom , ylt @Genesis:32:4 @and commandeth them , saying , 'Thus do ye say to my lord , to Esau : Thus said thy servant Jacob , With Laban I have sojourned , and I tarry until now ; ylt @Genesis:32:5 @and I have ox , and ass , flock , and man-servant , and maid-servant , and I send to declare to my lord , to find grace in his eyes .' ylt @Genesis:32:6 @And the messengers turn back unto Jacob , saying , 'We came in unto thy brother , unto Esau , and he also is coming to meet thee , and four hundred men with him ;' ylt @Genesis:32:7 @and Jacob feareth exceedingly , and is distressed , and he divideth the people who [are ] with him , and the flock , and the herd , and the camels , into two camps , ylt @Genesis:32:8 @and saith , 'If Esau come in unto the one camp , and have smitten it -- then the camp which is left hath been for an escape .' ylt @Genesis:32:9 @And Jacob saith , 'God of my father Abraham , and God of my father Isaac , Jehovah who saith unto me , Turn back to thy land , and to thy kindred , and I do good with thee : ylt @Genesis:32:10 @I have been unworthy of all the kind acts , and of all the truth which Thou hast done with thy servant -- for , with my staff I passed over this Jordan , and now I have become two camps . ylt @Genesis:32:11 @'Deliver me , I pray Thee , from the hand of my brother , from the hand of Esau : for I am fearing him , less he come and have smitten me -- mother beside sons ; ylt @Genesis:32:12 @and Thou -- Thou hast said , I certainly do good with thee , and have set thy seed as the sand of the sea , which is not numbered because of the multitude .' ylt @Genesis:32:13 @And he lodgeth there during that night , and taketh from that which is coming into his hand , a present for Esau his brother : ylt @Genesis:32:14 @she-goats two hundred , and he-goats twenty , ewes two hundred , and rams twenty , ylt @Genesis:32:15 @suckling camels and their young ones thirty , cows forty , and bullocks ten , she-asses twenty , and foals ten ; ylt @Genesis:32:16 @and he giveth into the hand of his servants , every drove by itself , and saith unto his servants , 'Pass over before me , and a space ye do put between drove and drove .' ylt @Genesis:32:17 @And he commandeth the first , saying , 'When Esau my brother meeteth thee , and hath asked thee , saying , Whose [art ] thou ? and whither goest thou ? and whose [are ] these before thee ? ylt @Genesis:32:18 @then thou hast said , Thy servant Jacob 's : it [is ] a present sent to my lord , to Esau ; and lo , he also [is ] behind us .' ylt @Genesis:32:19 @And he commandeth also the second , also the third , also all who are going after the droves , saying , 'According to this manner do ye speak unto Esau in your finding him , ylt @Genesis:32:20 @and ye have said also , Lo , thy servant Jacob [is ] behind us ;' for he said , 'I pacify his face with the present which is going before me , and afterwards I see his face ; it may be he lifteth up my face ;' ylt @Genesis:32:21 @and the present passeth over before his face , and he hath lodged during that night in the camp . ylt @Genesis:32:22 @And he riseth in that night , and taketh his two wives , and his two maid-servants , and his eleven children , and passeth over the passage of Jabbok ; ylt @Genesis:32:23 @and he taketh them , and causeth them to pass over the brook , and he causeth that which he hath to pass over . ylt @Genesis:32:24 @And Jacob is left alone , and one wrestleth with him till the ascending of the dawn ; ylt @Genesis:32:25 @and he seeth that he is not able for him , and he cometh against the hollow of his thigh , and the hollow of Jacob 's thigh is disjointed in his wrestling with him ; ylt @Genesis:32:26 @and he saith , 'Send me away , for the dawn hath ascended :' and he saith , 'I send thee not away , except thou hast blessed me .' ylt @Genesis:32:27 @And he saith unto him , 'What [is ] thy name ?' and he saith , 'Jacob .' ylt @Genesis:32:28 @And he saith , 'Thy name is no more called Jacob , but Israel ; for thou hast been a prince with God and with men , and dost prevail .' ylt @Genesis:32:29 @And Jacob asketh , and saith , 'Declare , I pray thee , thy name ;' and he saith , 'Why [is ] this , thou askest for My name ?' and He blesseth him there . ylt @Genesis:32:30 @And Jacob calleth the name of the place Peniel : for 'I have seen God face unto face , and my life is delivered ;' ylt @Genesis:32:31 @and the sun riseth on him when he hath passed over Penuel , and he is halting on his thigh ; ylt @Genesis:32:32 @therefore the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew which shrank , which [is ] on the hollow of the thigh , unto this day , because He came against the hollow of Jacob 's thigh , against the sinew which shrank . ylt @Genesis:33:1 @And Jacob lifteth up his eyes , and looketh , and lo , Esau is coming , and with him four hundred men ; and he divideth the children unto Leah , and unto Rachel , and unto the two maid-servants ; ylt @Genesis:33:2 @and he setteth the maid-servants and their children first , and Leah and her children behind , and Rachel and Joseph last . ylt @Genesis:33:3 @And he himself passed over before them , and boweth himself to the earth seven times , until his drawing nigh unto his brother , ylt @Genesis:33:4 @and Esau runneth to meet him , and embraceth him , and falleth on his neck , and kisseth him , and they weep ; ylt @Genesis:33:5 @and he lifteth up his eyes , and seeth the women and the children , and saith , 'What [are ] these to thee ?' And he saith , 'The children with whom God hath favoured thy servant .' ylt @Genesis:33:6 @And the maid-servants draw nigh , they and their children , and bow themselves ; ylt @Genesis:33:7 @and Leah also draweth nigh , and her children , and they bow themselves ; and afterwards Joseph hath drawn nigh with Rachel , and they bow themselves . ylt @Genesis:33:8 @And he saith , 'What to thee [is ] all this camp which I have met ?' and he saith , 'To find grace in the eyes of my lord .' ylt @Genesis:33:9 @And Esau saith , 'I have abundance , my brother , let it be to thyself that which thou hast .' ylt @Genesis:33:10 @And Jacob saith , 'Nay , I pray thee , if , I pray thee , I have found grace in thine eyes , then thou hast received my present from my hand , because that I have seen thy face , as the seeing of the face of God , and thou art pleased with me ; ylt @Genesis:33:11 @receive , I pray thee , my blessing , which is brought to thee , because God hath favoured me , and because I have all [things ];' and he presseth on him , and he receiveth , ylt @Genesis:33:12 @and saith , 'Let us journey and go on , and I go on before thee .' ylt @Genesis:33:13 @And he saith unto him , 'My lord knoweth that the children [are ] tender , and the suckling flock and the herd [are ] with me ; when they have beaten them one day , then hath all the flock died . ylt @Genesis:33:14 @Let my lord , I pray thee , pass over before his servant , and I -- I lead on gently , according to the foot of the work which [is ] before me , and to the foot of the children , until that I come unto my lord , to Seir .' ylt @Genesis:33:15 @And Esau saith , 'Let me , I pray thee , place with thee some of the people who [are ] with me ;' and he said , 'Why [is ] this ? I find grace in the eyes of my lord .' ylt @Genesis:33:16 @And turn back on that day doth Esau on his way to Seir ; ylt @Genesis:33:17 @and Jacob hath journeyed to Succoth , and buildeth to himself a house , and for his cattle hath made booths , therefore hath he called the name of the place Succoth . ylt @Genesis:33:18 @And Jacob cometh in to Shalem , a city of Shechem , which [is ] in the land of Canaan , in his coming from Padan-Aram , and encampeth before the city , ylt @Genesis:33:19 @and he buyeth the portion of the field where he hath stretched out his tent , from the hand of the sons of Hamor , father of Shechem , for a hundred kesitah ; ylt @Genesis:33:20 @and he setteth up there an altar , and proclaimeth at it God -- the God of Israel . ylt @Genesis:34:1 @And Dinah , daughter of Leah , whom she hath borne to Jacob , goeth out to look on the daughters of the land ,

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