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Genesis - ch 31 v 1 - 20
- 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.
- And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime.
- And Jehovah said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
- 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 beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me.
- And ye know that will 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 flock bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy wages; then bare all the flock ringstreaked.
- 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 flock conceive, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled.
- And the angel of God said unto me in the dream, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.
- And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
- I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst a pillar, where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity.
- 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 accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.
- For all the riches which God hath taken away 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 the camels;
- and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan.
- Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.
- And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
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