31JACOB HEARD Laban's sons complaining, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's; he has acquired all this wealth {and} honor from what belonged to our father.H8085H1697H3837H1121H559H3290H3947H1H1H6213H3519 2And Jacob noticed that Laban looked at him less favorably than before.H3290H7200H6440H3837H8543H8032 3Then the Lord said to Jacob, Return to the land of your fathers and to your people, and I will be with you.H3068H559H3290H7725H776H1H4138 4So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,H3290H7971H7121H7354H3812H7704H6629 5And he said to them, I see how your father looks at me, that he is not [friendly] toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.H559H7200H1H6440H8543H8032H430H1H1961 6You know that I have served your father with all my might {and} power.H859H3045H3581H5647H1 7But your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.H1H2048H2498H4909H6235H4489H430H5414H7489H5978 8If he said, The speckled shall be your wages, then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said, The streaked shall be your hire, then all the flock bore streaked.H559H5348H7939H6629H3205H5348H559H6124H7939H3205H6629H6124 9Thus God has taken away the flocks of your father and given them to me.H430H5337H4735H1H5414 10And I had a dream at the time the flock conceived. I looked up and saw that the rams which mated with the she-goats were streaked, speckled, and spotted.H6256H6629H3179H5375H5869H7200H2472H6260H5927H6629H6124H5348H1261 11And the Angel of God said to me in the dream, Jacob. And I said, Here am I.H4397H430H559H2472H3290H559 12And He said, Look up and see, all the rams which mate with the flock are streaked, speckled, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban does to you.H559H5375H5869H7200H6260H5927H6629H6124H5348H1261H7200H3837H6213 13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and where you vowed a vow to Me. Now arise, get out from this land and return to your native land.H410H1008H4886H4676H5087H5088H6965H3318H776H7725H776H4138 14And Rachel and Leah answered him, Is there any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?H7354H3812H6030H559H2506H5159H1H1004 15Are we not counted by him as strangers? For he sold us and has also quite devoured our money [the price you paid for us].H2803H5237H4376H398H398H3701 16For all the riches which God has taken from our father are ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do it.H6239H430H5337H1H1121H430H559H6213 17Then Jacob rose up and set his sons and his wives upon the camels;H3290H6965H5375H1121H802H1581 18And he drove away all his livestock and all his gain which he had gotten, the livestock he had obtained {and} accumulated in Padan-aram, to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.H5090H4735H7399H7408H4735H7075H7408H6307H935H3327H1H776H3667 19Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep [possibly to the feast of sheepshearing], and Rachel stole her father's household gods.H3837H1980H1494H6629H7354H1589H8655H1 20And Jacob outwitted Laban the Syrian [Aramean] in that he did not tell him that he [intended] to flee {and} slip away secretly.H3290H1589H3820H3837H761H5921H5046H1097H1272 21So he fled with all that he had, and arose and crossed the river [Euphrates] and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.H1272H6965H5674H5104H7760H6440H2022H1568 22But on the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled.H5046H3837H7992H3117H3290H1272 23So he took his kinsmen with him and pursued after [Jacob] for seven days, and they overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.H3947H251H7291H310H7651H3117H1870H1692H2022H1568 24But God came to Laban the Syrian [Aramean] in a dream by night and said to him, Be careful that you do not speak from good to bad to Jacob [peaceably, then violently].H430H935H3837H761H2472H3915H559H8104H1696H5973H3290H2896H5704H7451 25Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent on the hill, and Laban coming with his kinsmen pitched [his tents] on the same hill of Gilead.H3837H5381H3290H3290H8628H168H2022H3837H251H8628H2022H1568 26And Laban said to Jacob, What do you mean stealing away {and} leaving like this without my knowing it, and carrying off my daughters as if captives of the sword?H3837H559H3290H6213H1589H3824H5090H1323H7617H2719 27Why did you flee secretly and cheat me and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with joy {and} gladness and with singing, with tambourine and lyre?H1272H2244H1589H5046H7971H8057H7892H8596H3658 28And why did you not permit me to kiss my sons [grandchildren] and my daughters good-bye? Now you have done foolishly [in behaving like this].H5203H5401H1121H1323H5528H6213 29It is in my power to do you harm; but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Be careful that you do not speak from good to bad to Jacob [peaceably, then violently].H3426H410H3027H6213H7451H430H1H559H570H559H8104H1696H3290H2896H7451 30And now you felt you must go because you were homesick for your father's house, but why did you steal my [household] gods?H1980H1980H3700H3700H1H1004H1589H430 31Jacob answered Laban, Because I was afraid; for I thought, Suppose you would take your daughters from me by force.H3290H6030H559H3837H3372H559H6435H1497H1323 32The one with whom you find those gods of yours, let him not live. Here before our kinsmen [search my possessions and] take whatever you find that belongs to you. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen [the images].H834H4672H430H2421H5048H251H5234H3947H3290H3045H7354H1589 33So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and the tent of the two maids, but he did not find them. Then he went from Leah's tent into Rachel's tent.H3837H935H3290H168H3812H168H8147H519H168H4672H3318H3812H168H935H7354H168 34Now Rachel had taken the images (gods) and put them in the camel's saddle and sat on them. Laban searched {and} felt through all the tent, but did not find them.H7354H3947H8655H7760H1581H3733H3427H3837H4959H168H4672 35And [Rachel] said to her father, Do not be displeased, my lord, that I cannot rise up before you, for the period of women is upon me {and} I am unwell. And he searched, but did not find the gods.H559H1H2734H5869H113H3201H6965H6440H1870H802H2664H4672H8655 36Then Jacob became angry and reproached {and} argued with Laban. And Jacob said to Laban, What is my fault? What is my sin, that you so hotly pursued me?H3290H2734H7378H3837H3290H6030H559H3837H6588H2403H1814H310 37Although you have searched {and} felt through all my household possessions, what have you found of all your household goods? Put it here before my brethren and yours, that they may judge {and} decide between us.H3588H4959H3627H4672H1004H3627H7760H3541H251H251H3198H996H8147 38These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your she-goats have not lost their young, and the rams of your flock have not been eaten by me.H6242H8141H7353H5795H7921H352H6629H398 39I did not bring you [the carcasses of the animals] torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss of it; you required of me [to make good] all that was stolen, whether it occurred by day or by night.H2966H935H2398H3027H1245H1589H3117H1589H3915 40This was [my lot]; by day the heat consumed me and by night the cold, and I could not sleep.H3117H2721H398H7140H3915H8142H5074H5869 41I have been twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks; and you have changed my wages ten times.H6242H8141H1004H5647H702H6240H8141H8147H1323H8337H8141H6629H2498H4909H6235H4489 42And if the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Dread [lest he should fall] {and} Fear [lest he offend] of Isaac, had not been with me, surely you would have sent me away now empty-handed. God has seen my affliction {and} humiliation and the [wearying] labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.H3884H430H1H430H85H6343H3327H7971H7387H430H7200H6040H3018H3709H3198H570 43Laban answered Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, these children are my children, these flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do today to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?H3837H6030H559H3290H1323H1323H1121H1121H6629H6629H7200H6213H3117H1323H176H1121H3205 44So come now, let us make a covenant {or} league, you and I, and let it be for a witness between you and me.H3212H3772H1285H5707 45So Jacob set up a stone for a pillar {or} monument.H3290H3947H68H7311H4676 46And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones and made a heap, and they ate [together] there upon the heap.H3290H559H251H3950H68H3947H68H6213H1530H398H1530 47Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha [witness heap, {in Aramaic} ], but Jacob called it Galeed [witness heap, {in Hebrew.} ]H3837H7121H3026H3290H7121H1567 48Laban said, This heap is a witness today between you and me. Therefore it was named Galeed.H3837H559H1530H5707H3117H8034H7121H1567 49And [the pillar or monument was called] Mizpah [watchpost], for he [Laban] said, May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent {and} hidden one from another.H4709H834H559H3068H6822H5641H376H7453 50If you should afflict, humiliate, {or} lower [divorce] my daughters, or if you should take other wives beside my daughters, although no man is with us [to witness], see (remember), God is witness between you and me.H6031H1323H3947H802H5921H1323H376H7200H430H5707 51And Laban said to Jacob, See this heap and this pillar, which I have set up between you and me.H3837H559H3290H1530H4676H3384 52This heap is a witness and this pillar is a witness, that I will not pass by this heap to you, and that you will not pass by this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.H1530H5707H4676H5713H5674H1530H5674H1530H4676H7451 53The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, and the god [the object of worship] of their father [Terah, an idolator], judge between us. But Jacob swore [only] by [the one true God] the Dread {and} Fear of his father Isaac.H430H85H430H5152H430H1H8199H3290H7650H6343H1H3327 54Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his brethren to eat food; and they ate food and lingered all night on the mountain.H3290H2076H2077H2022H7121H251H398H3899H398H3899H3885H2022 55And early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and pronounced a blessing [asking God's favor] on them. Then Laban departed and returned to his home.H7925H1242H3837H7925H5401H1121H1323H1288H3837H3212H7725H4725
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