Genesis 31
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1[an error occurred while processing this directive]1Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
2[an error occurred while processing this directive]2And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.
3[an error occurred while processing this directive]3Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
4[an error occurred while processing this directive]4So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,
5[an error occurred while processing this directive]5and he told them, “I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.
6[an error occurred while processing this directive]6You know that I have served your father with all my strength.
7[an error occurred while processing this directive]7And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
8[an error occurred while processing this directive]8If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore streaked offspring.
9[an error occurred while processing this directive]9Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
10[an error occurred while processing this directive]10When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.
11[an error occurred while processing this directive]11In that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Here I am.’
12[an error occurred while processing this directive]12‘Look up,’ he said, ‘and see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.
13[an error occurred while processing this directive]13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up and leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’ ”
14[an error occurred while processing this directive]14And Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our father’s house?
15[an error occurred while processing this directive]15Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.
16[an error occurred while processing this directive]16Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
17[an error occurred while processing this directive]17Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,
18[an error occurred while processing this directive]18and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.
19[an error occurred while processing this directive]19Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
20[an error occurred while processing this directive]20Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
21[an error occurred while processing this directive]21So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.
22[an error occurred while processing this directive]22On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.
23[an error occurred while processing this directive]23So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
24[an error occurred while processing this directive]24But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
25[an error occurred while processing this directive]25Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.
26[an error occurred while processing this directive]26Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
27[an error occurred while processing this directive]27Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
28[an error occurred while processing this directive]28But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.
29[an error occurred while processing this directive]29I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
30[an error occurred while processing this directive]30Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
31[an error occurred while processing this directive]31“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
32[an error occurred while processing this directive]32If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.
33[an error occurred while processing this directive]33So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.
34[an error occurred while processing this directive]34Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
35[an error occurred while processing this directive]35Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.
36[an error occurred while processing this directive]36Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?
37[an error occurred while processing this directive]37You have searched all my goods! Have you found anything that belongs to you? Put it here before my brothers and yours, that they may judge between the two of us.
38[an error occurred while processing this directive]38I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.
39[an error occurred while processing this directive]39I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.
40[an error occurred while processing this directive]40As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
41[an error occurred while processing this directive]41Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!
42[an error occurred while processing this directive]42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
43[an error occurred while processing this directive]43But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?
44[an error occurred while processing this directive]44Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.”
45[an error occurred while processing this directive]45So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,
46[an error occurred while processing this directive]46and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.
47[an error occurred while processing this directive]47Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
48[an error occurred while processing this directive]48Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.
49[an error occurred while processing this directive]49It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.
50[an error occurred while processing this directive]50If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”
51[an error occurred while processing this directive]51Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.
52[an error occurred while processing this directive]52This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.
53[an error occurred while processing this directive]53May 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[an error occurred while processing this directive]54Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.
55[an error occurred while processing this directive]55Early the next morning, Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then he left to return home.
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