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GE-31:1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob


  • hath
  • taken away all that [was] our father's; and of [that] which
  • [was] our
  • father's hath he gotten all this glory.
  • GE-31:2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold,
  • it
  • [was] not toward him as before.
  • GE-31:3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of
  • thy
  • fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
  • GE-31:4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field
  • unto
  • his flock,
  • GE-31:5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance,
  • that it
  • [is] not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been
  • with
  • me.
  • GE-31:6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your
  • father.
  • GE-31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages
  • ten
  • times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
  • GE-31:8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then
  • all
  • the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked
  • shall
  • be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstreaked.
  • GE-31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and
  • given
  • [them] to me.
  • GE-31:10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle
  • conceived,
  • that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the
  • rams
  • which leaped upon the cattle [were] ringstreaked, speckled, and
  • grisled.
  • GE-31:11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream,
  • [saying],
  • Jacob: And I said, Here [am] I.
  • GE-31:12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the
  • rams
  • which leap upon the cattle [are] ringstreaked, speckled, and
  • grisled:
  • for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
  • GE-31:13 I [am] the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the
  • pillar,
  • [and] where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out
  • from
  • this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
  • GE-31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, [Is
  • there]
  • yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
  • GE-31:15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold
  • us,
  • and hath quite devoured also our money.
  • GE-31:16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our
  • father,
  • that [is] ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God
  • hath said
  • unto thee, do.
  • GE-31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon
  • camels;
  • GE-31:18 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.
  • GE-31:19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had
  • stolen the
  • images that [were] her father's.
  • GE-31:20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in
  • that
  • he told him not that he fled.
  • GE-31:21 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.
  • GE-31:22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was
  • fled.
  • GE-31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after
  • him
  • seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
  • GE-31:24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night,
  • and
  • said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either
  • good or
  • bad.
  • GE-31:25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his
  • tent in
  • the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of
  • Gilead.
  • GE-31:26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that
  • thou hast
  • stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as
  • captives
  • [taken] with the sword?
  • GE-31:27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal
  • away from
  • me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with
  • mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
  • GE-31:28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my
  • daughters?
  • thou hast now done foolishly in [so] doing.
  • GE-31:29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the
  • God of
  • your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed
  • that
  • thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
  • GE-31:30 And now, [though] thou wouldest needs be gone, because
  • thou
  • sore longedst after thy father's house, [yet] wherefore hast thou
  • stolen my gods?
  • GE-31:31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was
  • afraid:
  • for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy
  • daughters
  • from me.
  • GE-31:32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not
  • live:
  • before our brethren discern thou what [is] thine with me, and
  • take
  • [it] to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
  • GE-31:33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent,
  • and
  • into the two maidservants' tents; but he found [them] not. Then
  • went
  • he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
  • GE-31:34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the
  • camel's
  • furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent,
  • but
  • found [them] not.
  • GE-31:35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my
  • lord
  • that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women [is]
  • upon
  • me. And he searched, but found not the images.
  • GE-31:36 And Jacob was wroth, and chided with Laban: and Jacob
  • answered and said to Laban, What [is] my trespass? what [is] my
  • sin,
  • that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
  • GE-31:37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou
  • found of all thy household stuff? set [it] here before my
  • brethren and
  • thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
  • GE-31:38 This twenty years [have] I [been] with thee; thy ewes
  • and
  • thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy
  • flock
  • have I not eaten.
  • GE-31:39 That which was torn [of beasts] I brought not unto
  • thee; I
  • bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, [whether]
  • stolen by day, or stolen by night.
  • GE-31:40 [Thus] I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and
  • the
  • frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
  • GE-31:41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served
  • thee
  • fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy
  • cattle:
  • and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
  • GE-31:42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and
  • the
  • fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away
  • now
  • empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands,
  • and
  • rebuked [thee] yesternight.
  • GE-31:43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, [These]
  • daughters
  • [are] my daughters, and [these] children [are] my children, and
  • [these] cattle [are] my cattle, and all that thou seest [is]
  • mine: and
  • what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their
  • children
  • which they have born?
  • GE-31:44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and
  • thou;
  • and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
  • GE-31:45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar.
  • GE-31:46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and
  • they
  • took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the
  • heap.
  • GE-31:47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it
  • Galeed.
  • GE-31:48 And Laban said, This heap [is] a witness between me
  • and thee
  • this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
  • GE-31:49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and
  • thee,
  • when we are absent one from another.
  • GE-31:50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt
  • take
  • [other] wives beside my daughters, no man [is] with us; see, God
  • [is]
  • witness betwixt me and thee.
  • GE-31:51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold
  • [this]
  • pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
  • GE-31:52 This heap [be] witness, and [this] pillar [be] witness,
  • that
  • I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not
  • pass
  • over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
  • GE-31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of
  • their
  • father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his
  • father
  • Isaac.
  • GE-31:54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and
  • called his
  • brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all
  • night
  • in the mount.
  • GE-31:55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his
  • sons
  • and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and
  • returned
  • unto his place.