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Genesis - ch 31 v 1 - 20
- And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and of what was our father's he has acquired all this glory.
- And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and behold, it was not toward him as previously.
- And Jehovah said to Jacob, Return into 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 fields to his flock,
- and said to them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as previously; but the God of my father has been with me.
- And you know that with all my power I have served your father.
- And your father has mocked me, and has changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
- If he said thus; The speckled shall be thy hire, then all the flocks bore speckled; and if he said thus: The ringstraked shall be thy hire, then all the flocks bore ringstraked.
- And God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
- And it came to pass at the time of the ardour of the flocks, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams that leaped upon the flocks were ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
- And the Angel of God said to me in a dream, Jacob! And I said, Here am I.
- And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see: all the rams that leap upon the flock are ringstraked, speckled, and spotted; for I have seen all that Laban does to thee.
- I am the ùGod of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, where thou vowedst a vow to me. Now arise, depart out of this land, and return to the land of thy kindred.
- And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
- Are we not reckoned of him strangers? for he has sold us, and has even constantly devoured our money.
- For all the wealth that God has taken from our father is ours and our children's; and now whatever God has said to thee do.
- And Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels,
- and carried away all his cattle, and all his property that he had acquired -- the cattle of his possessions that he had acquired in Padan-Aram, to go to Isaac his father, into the land of Canaan.
- And Laban had gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that belonged to her father.
- And Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he fled.
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