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1
Now Jacob heard
the words
of Laban's
sons,
saying,
"Jacob
has taken
away
all
that was our father's,
and from what
belonged to our father
he has made
all
this
wealth."
2
Jacob
saw
the attitude
of Laban,
and behold,
it was not friendly toward
him as formerly.
3
Then the LORD
said
to Jacob,
"Return
to the land
of your fathers
and to your relatives,
and I will be with you."
4
So Jacob
sent
and called
Rachel
and Leah
to his flock
in the field,
5
and said
to them, "I see
your father's
attitude,
that it is not friendly toward
me as formerly,
but the God
of my father
has been
with me.
6
"You know
that I have served
your father
with all
my strength.
7
"Yet your father
has cheated
me and changed
my wages
ten
times;
however, God
did not allow
him to hurt
me.
8
"If
he spoke
thus,
'The speckled
shall be your wages,'
then all
the flock
brought
forth
speckled;
and if
he spoke
thus,
'The striped
shall be your wages,'
then all
the flock
brought
forth
striped.
9
"Thus God
has taken away
your father's
livestock
and given
them to me.
10
"And it came
about at the time
when the flock
were mating
that I lifted
up my eyes
and saw
in a dream,
and behold,
the male goats
which
were mating
were striped,
speckled,
and mottled.
11
"Then the angel
of God
said
to me in the dream,
'Jacob,'
and I
said
,
'Here
I am.'
12
"He said,
'Lift
up now
your eyes
and see
that
all
the male goats
which are mating
are striped,
speckled,
and mottled;
for I have seen
all
that Laban
has been doing
to you.
13
I am the God
of Bethel,
where
you anointed
a pillar,
where
you made
a vow
to Me; now
arise,
leave
this
land,
and return
to the land
of your birth.'"
14
Rachel
and Leah
said
to him, "Do we still
have any portion
or inheritance
in our father's
house?
15
"Are we not reckoned
by him as foreigners?
For he has sold
us, and has also
entirely
consumed
our purchase price.
16
"Surely
all
the wealth
which
God
has taken away
from our father
belongs to us and our children;
now
then, do
whatever
God
has said
to you."
17
Then Jacob
arose
and put
his children
and his wives
upon camels;
18
and he drove away
all
his
livestock
and
all
his property
which
he had gathered
,
his acquired
livestock
which
he had gathered
in Paddan-aram,
to go
to the land
of Canaan
to his father
Isaac.
19
When Laban
had gone
to shear
his flock,
then Rachel
stole
the household idols
that were her father's.
20
And Jacob
deceived
Laban
the Aramean
by not telling
him that he was fleeing.
21
So he fled
with all
that he had; and he arose
and crossed
the Euphrates River,
and set
his face
toward the hill country
of Gilead.
22
When it was told
Laban
on the third
day
that Jacob
had fled,
23
then he took
his kinsmen
with him and pursued
him a distance of seven
days'
journey,
and he overtook
him in the hill country
of Gilead.
24
God
came
to Laban
the Aramean
in a dream
of the night
and said
to him, "Be careful
that you do not speak
to Jacob
either
good
or
bad."
25
Laban
caught
up with Jacob.
Now Jacob
had pitched
his tent
in the hill
country
,
and
Laban
with his kinsmen
camped
in the hill
country
of Gilead.
26
Then Laban
said
to Jacob,
"What
have you done
by deceiving
me and carrying away
my daughters
like captives
of the sword?
27
"Why
did you flee
secretly
and deceive
me, and did not tell
me so that I might have sent you away
with joy
and with songs,
with timbrel
and with lyre;
28
and did not allow
me to kiss
my sons
and my daughters?
Now
you have done
foolishly.
29
"It is in my power
to do
you harm,
but the God
of your father
spoke
to me last night,
saying,
'
Be careful
not to speak
either
good
or
bad
to Jacob.'
30
"Now
you have indeed
gone
away because
you longed
greatly
for your father's
house;
but why
did you steal
my gods?"
31
Then Jacob
replied
to Laban,
"Because
I was afraid,
for I thought
that you would take
your daughters
from me by force.
32
"The one with whom
you find
your gods
shall not live;
in the presence
of our kinsmen
point
out what
is yours among my belongings
and take
it for yourself." For Jacob
did not know
that Rachel
had stolen
them.
33
So Laban
went
into Jacob's
tent
and into Leah's
tent
and into the
tent
of the two
maids,
but he did not find
them. Then he
went
out of Leah's
tent
and entered
Rachel's
tent
.
34
Now Rachel
had taken
the household idols
and put
them in the camel's
saddle,
and she sat
on
them.
And Laban
felt through
all
the tent
but did not find
them.
35
She said
to her father,
"Let not my lord
be angry
that I cannot
rise
before
you, for the manner
of women
is upon me." So he searched
but did not find
the household idols.
36
Then Jacob
became angry
and contended
with Laban;
and Jacob
said
to Laban,
"
What
is my transgression?
What
is my sin
that you have hotly pursued
me?
37
"Though
you have felt through
all
my goods,
what
have you found
of
all
your household
goods?
Set
it here
before
my kinsmen
and your kinsmen,
that they may decide
between
us two.
38
"These
twenty
years
I have been with you; your ewes
and your female goats
have not miscarried,
nor
have I eaten
the rams
of your flocks.
39
"That which was torn
of beasts I did not bring
to you; I bore the loss
of it myself.
You required
it of my hand
whether stolen
by day
or stolen
by night.
40
"Thus I was: by day
the heat
consumed
me and the frost
by night,
and my sleep
fled
from my eyes.
41
"These
twenty
years
I have been in your house;
I served
you fourteen
years
for your two
daughters
and six
years
for your flock,
and you changed
my wages
ten
times.
42
"If
the
God
of my father,
the
God
of Abraham,
and the fear
of Isaac,
had not been
for me, surely
now
you would have sent me away
empty-handed.
God
has seen
my affliction
and the toil
of my hands,
so He rendered judgment
last night."
43
Then Laban
replied
to Jacob,
"The daughters
are
my daughters
,
and the children
are my children,
and the flocks
are my flocks,
and all
that you see
is mine. But what
can I do
this day
to these
my daughters
or
to their children
whom
they have b
or
ne?
44
"So now
come,
let us make
a covenant,
you and I, and let it be a witness
between
you and me."
45
Then Jacob
took
a stone
and set
it up as a pillar.
46
Jacob
said
to his kinsmen,
"Gather
stones
."
So they took
stones
and made
a heap,
and they ate
there
by the heap.
47
Now Laban
called
it Jegar-sahadutha,
but Jacob
called
it Galeed.
48
Laban
said,
"This
heap
is a witness
between
you and me this day."
Therefore
it was named
Galeed,
49
and Mizpah,
for he said,
"May the LORD
watch
between
you and me when
we are absent
one
from the other.
50
"If
you mistreat
my daughters,
or if
you take
wives
besides
my daughters,
although no
man
is with us, see,
God
is witness
between
you and me."
51
Laban
said
to Jacob,
"Behold
this
heap
and behold
the pillar
which
I have set
between
you and me.
52
"This
heap
is a witness,
and the
pillar
is a witness,
that I will not pass
by this
heap
to you for harm, and you will not pass
by this
heap
and this
pillar
to me, for harm.
53
"The God
of Abraham
and
the God
of Nahor,
the God
of their father,
judge
between
us." So Jacob
swore
by the fear
of his father
Isaac.
54
Then Jacob
offered
a sacrifice
on the mountain,
and called
his kinsmen
to
the meal
;
and they ate
the meal
and spent the night
on the mountain.
55
Early
in the morning
Laban
arose,
and kissed
his sons
and his daughters
and blessed
them. Then
Laban
departed
and returned
to his place.
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