Genesis 31
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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.

Jacob.

Genesis 31:8,9 If he said thus, The speckled shall be your wages; then all the cattle …

Job 31:31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! …

Psalm 57:4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on …

Psalm 64:3,4 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot …

Psalm 120:3-5 What shall be given to you? or what shall be done to you, you false tongue…

Proverbs 14:30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

Proverbs 27:4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

Ecclesiastes 4:4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this …

Ezekiel 16:44 Behold, every one that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against …

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, …

glory. 'Glory' is here used for 'wealth,' riches, or property; since those who possess riches, generally make them the subject of glory. The original word cavod, signifies both 'glory' and 'weight.'

Genesis 45:13 And you shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all …

Esther 5:11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude …

Job 31:24,25 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are …

Psalm 17:14 From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which …

Psalm 49:16,17 Be not you afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house …

Ecclesiastes 4:4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this …

Isaiah 5:14 Therefore hell has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without …

Jeremiah 9:23 Thus said the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither …

Matthew 4:8 Again, the devil takes him up into an exceeding high mountain, and …

1 Timothy 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes …

1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower …

And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

Return.

Genesis 28:15,20,21 And, behold, I am with you, and will keep you in all places where …

Genesis 32:9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father …

Genesis 35:1 And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and …

Genesis 46:2,3 And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, …

Genesis 50:24 And Joseph said to his brothers, I die: and God will surely visit you…

Psalm 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Psalm 50:15 And call on me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you …

Psalm 90:15 Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us, …

land.

Genesis 31:13,18 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar, and where …

Genesis 13:15 For all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your …

Genesis 26:3-5 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; …

Genesis 28:4,13,15 And give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with …

Genesis 30:25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said …

with thee.

Genesis 21:22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the …

Genesis 26:24 And the LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God …

Genesis 28:15 And, behold, I am with you, and will keep you in all places where …

Genesis 32:9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father …

Isaiah 41:10 Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: …

Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with …

And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
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.
And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
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 ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.
And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
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.
And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
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.
Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
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.
And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.
And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
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.
And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
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.

the Syrian.

Genesis 28:5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram to Laban, son …

Deuteronomy 26:5 And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready …

Hosea 12:12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a …

dream.

Genesis 31:10,29 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I …

Genesis 20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, …

Genesis 40:5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one …

Genesis 41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: …

Numbers 12:6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, …

Numbers 22:20,26 And God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men come …

1 Kings 3:5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God …

Job 33:15-17,25 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, …

Matthew 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD …

Matthew 2:12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to …

Matthew 27:19 When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, …

Take heed.

Genesis 31:42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of …

Genesis 24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceeds from …

Numbers 24:13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot …

2 Samuel 13:22 And Absalom spoke to his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for …

Psalm 105:14,15 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yes, he reproved kings for their sakes…

Isaiah 37:29 Because your rage against me, and your tumult, is come up into my …

either good or bad. Heb. from good to bad.

Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
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?
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?
And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
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.
And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
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.
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.
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.

had taken.

Genesis 31:17,19 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on camels…

furniture. The word, car, rendered 'furniture,' properly denotes 'a large round pannier,' placed one on each side of a camel, for a person, especially women, to ride in. It is a hamper, like a cradle, having a back, head, and sides, like a great chair. Moryson describes them as 'two long chairs like cradles, covered with red cloth, to hang on the two sides of the camel.' Hanway calls them kedgavays, which 'are a kind of covered chairs, which the Persians hang over their camels in the manner of panniers, and are big enough for one person to sit in.' Thevenot, who calls then counes, says that they lay over them a cover, which keeps then both from the rain and sun; and Maillet describes them as covered cages, hanging on each side of a camel. The late Editor of Calmet has furnished a correct delineation of these cars, as seen on one side of a camel, copied from Dalton's Prints of Egyptian Figures.

searched. Heb. felt.

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.
And Jacob was wroth, and chode 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?
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.
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.
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.
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
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.
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.
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?
Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.

brethren.

Genesis 31:23,32,37,54 And he took his brothers with him, and pursued after him seven days' …

Gather.

Joshua 4:5-9,20-24 And Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your …

Joshua 7:26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones to this day. So the …

2 Samuel 18:17 And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, …

Ecclesiastes 3:5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; …

an heap. The word gal, rendered 'heap,' properly signifies a round heap or circle; probably like the Druidical remains in this country, which have been traced in India, Persia, Western Asia, Greece, and Northern Europe. These usually consist of irregular circles of large stones, with a principal one in the midst; the former probably being used for seats, and the latter for an altar; corresponding to the stone set up as a pillar by Jacob, and the heap of stones collected by his brethren. They appear to have been used, as Gilgal undoubtedly was, (Jos.

Genesis 4:5 But to Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was …

Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return to …

Genesis 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

1 Samuel 7:16 And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and …

1 Samuel 10:8 And you shall go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come …

1 Samuel 10:17 And Samuel called the people together to the LORD to Mizpeh;

1 Samuel 11:15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king …

1 Samuel 13:7 And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. …

1 Samuel 15:33 And Samuel said, As the sword has made women childless, so shall …

1 Samuel 19:15 And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him …

1 Samuel 2:1 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoices in the LORD, my horn …

And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.

Jegar-sahadutha. i.e., the heap of witness. Chald. Galeed. i.e., the heap of witness. Heb.

Hebrews 12:1 Why seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, …

And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
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.
And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;

I have cast. For yarithi, 'I have set up,' we may read yaritha, 'Thou hast set up,' with one Heb. and one Sam. MS: see ver.

Genesis 31:45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

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.
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.
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.
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.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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