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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 .
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And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban ,
and ,
behold ,
it was not toward him as beforetime .
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And LORD said to Jacob ,
Return to 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 to his flock ,
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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 .
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And ye know that with all my power I have served your father .
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And your father has deceived me ,
and changed my wages ten times ,
but God did not allow him to hurt me .
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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 .
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Thus God has 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 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 .
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And the agent of God said to me in the dream ,
Jacob .
And I said ,
Here I am .
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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 .
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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 .
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And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him ,
Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father '
s house ?
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Are we not accounted by him as foreigners ?
For he has sold us ,
and has also quite devoured our money .
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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 .
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Then Jacob rose up ,
and set his sons and his wives upon the camels .
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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 .
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Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep ,
and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father '
s .
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And Jacob slipped away unawares to Laban the Syrian ,
in that he did not tell him 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 mountain of Gilead .
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And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled .
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And he took his brothers with him ,
and pursued after him seven days '
journey ,
and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 ?
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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 ,
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and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters ?
Now thou have done foolishly .
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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 .
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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 ?
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And Jacob answered and said to Laban ,
Because I was afraid ,
for I said ,
Lest thou should take thy daughters from me by force .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 ?
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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Thus I was ;
in the day the drought consumed me ,
and the frost by night ,
and my sleep fled from my eyes .
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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 .
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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 .
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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
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And now come ,
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 to his brothers ,
Gather stones ,
and they took stones ,
and made a heap .
And they ate there by the heap .
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And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha ,
but Jacob called it Galeed .
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And Laban said ,
This heap is witness between me and thee this day .
Therefore the name of it was called Galeed ,
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and Mizpah .
For he said ,
May LORD watch between me and thee ,
when we are absent one from another ,
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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 .
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And Laban said to Jacob ,
Behold this heap ,
and behold the pillar ,
which I have set between me and thee .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 to his place .
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And Jacob went on his way ,
and the agents of God met him .
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And Jacob said when he saw them ,
This is God '
s camp .
And he called the name of that place Mahanaim .
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And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir ,
the field of Edom .
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And he commanded them ,
saying ,
Thus shall ye say to my lord Esau ,
Thus says thy servant Jacob ,
I have sojourned with Laban ,
and stayed until now .
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And I have oxen ,
and donkeys ,
flocks ,
and men-servants ,
and maid-servants .
And I have sent to tell my lord ,
that I may find favor in thy sight .
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And the messengers returned to Jacob ,
saying ,
We came to thy brother Esau ,
and moreover he comes to meet thee ,
and four hundred men with him .
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Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed .
And he divided the people that were with him ,
and the flocks ,
and the herds ,
and the camels ,
into two companies .
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And he said ,
If Esau comes to the one company ,
and smites it ,
then the 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 ,
O LORD ,
who said to me ,
Return to thy country ,
and to thy kindred ,
and I will do thee good ,
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I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses ,
and of all the truth ,
which thou have shown to thy servant ,
for with my staff I passed over this Jordan ,
and now I have become two companies .
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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 comes and smites me ,
the mother with the sons .
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And thou said ,
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 night ,
and took of that which he had with him 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 milk camels and their colts ,
forty cows and ten bulls ,
twenty she-donkeys and ten foals .
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And he delivered them into the hand of his servants ,
every herd by itself ,
and said to his servants ,
Pass over before me ,
and put a space between herd and herd .
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And he commanded the foremost ,
saying ,
When Esau my brother meets thee ,
and asks thee ,
saying ,
Whose are thou ?
And where do thou go ?
And whose are these before thee ?
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Then thou shall say ,
Thy servant Jacob '
s .
It is a present sent to my lord Esau .
And ,
behold ,
he also is behind us .
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And he commanded also the second ,
and the third ,
and all who followed the herds ,
saying ,
On this manner shall ye speak to Esau when ye find him ,
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and ye shall say ,
Moreover ,
behold ,
thy 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 .
Perhaps he will accept me .
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So the present passed over before him ,
and he 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 handmaids ,
and his eleven children ,
and passed over the ford of the Jabbok .
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And he took them ,
and sent them over the stream ,
and sent over that which he had .
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And Jacob was left alone ,
and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day .
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And when he saw that he did not prevail against him ,
he touched the hollow of his thigh ,
and the hollow of Jacob '
s thigh was strained as he wrestled with him .
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And he said ,
Let me go ,
for the day breaks .
And he said ,
I will not let thee go unless thou bless me .
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And he said to him ,
What is thy name ?
And he said ,
Jacob .
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And he said ,
Thy name shall no more be called Jacob ,
but Israel ,
for thou have striven with God and with men ,
and have prevailed .
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And Jacob asked him ,
and said ,
Tell me ,
I pray thee ,
thy name .
And he said ,
Why is it that thou ask for 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 the sun rose upon him as he passed over Penuel [
Peniel ],
and he limped upon his thigh .
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Therefore the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh ,
to this day ,
because he touched the hollow of Jacob '
s thigh in the sinew of the hip .
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And Jacob lifted up his eyes ,
and looked ,
and ,
behold ,
Esau was coming ,
and four hundred men with him .
And he divided the children to Leah ,
and to Rachel ,
and to the two handmaids .
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And he put the handmaids and their children foremost ,
and Leah and her children after ,
and Rachel and Joseph hindmost .
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And he himself passed over before them ,
and bowed himself to the ground seven times ,
until he came near to his brother .
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And Esau ran to meet him ,
and embraced him ,
and fell on his neck ,
and kissed him ,
and they wept .
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And he lifted up his eyes ,
and saw the women and the children ,
and said ,
Who are these with thee ?
And he said ,
The children whom God has graciously given thy servant .
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Then the handmaids came near ,
they and their children ,
and they bowed themselves .
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And Leah also and her children came near ,
and bowed themselves .
And afterward Joseph came near and Rachel ,
and they bowed themselves .
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And he said ,
What do thou mean by all this company which I met ?
And he said ,
To find favor in the sight of my lord .
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And Esau said ,
I have enough ,
my brother ,
let that which thou have be thine .
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And Jacob said ,
No ,
I pray thee ,
if now I have found favor in thy sight ,
then receive my present at my hand ,
inasmuch as I have seen thy face ,
as any man would see the face of God ,
and thou were pleased with me .
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Take ,
I pray thee ,
my gift that is brought to thee ,
because God has dealt graciously with me ,
and because I have enough .
And he urged him ,
and he took it .
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And he said ,
Let us take our journey ,
and let us go ,
and I will go before thee .
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And he said to him ,
My lord knows that the children are tender ,
and that the flocks and herds with me have their young ,
and if they overdrive them one day ,
all the flocks will die .
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Let my lord ,
I pray thee ,
pass over before his servant ,
and I will lead on gently ,
according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children ,
until I come to my lord to Seir .
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And Esau said ,
Let me now leave with thee some of the folks that are with me .
And he said ,
What need is it ?
Let me find favor in the sight of my lord .
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So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir .
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And Jacob journeyed to Succoth ,
and built for him a house ,
and made booths for his cattle .
Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth .
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And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem ,
which is in the land of Canaan ,
when he came from Paddan-aram ,
and encamped before the city .
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And he bought the parcel of ground ,
where he had spread his tent ,
at the hand of the sons of Hamor ,
Shechem '
s father ,
for a hundred lambs .
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And he erected an altar there ,
and called it El-Elohe-Israel .
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And Dinah the daughter of Leah ,
whom she bore to Jacob ,
went out to see the daughters of the land .