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Genesis - ch 31 v 1 - 20
- But after that he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and being enriched by his substance is become great:
- And perceiving also that Laban's countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day,
- Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.
- He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks,
- And said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me.
- And you know that I have served your father to the utmost of my power.
- Yea, your father also hath overreached me, and hath changes my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.
- If at any time he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white ones for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones.
- And God hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me.
- For after that time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep that the males which leaped upon the females were of diverse colors, and spotted, and speckled.
- And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob? And I answered: Here I am.
- And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers colors, spotted, and speckled. For I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee.
- I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country.
- And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we anything left among the goods and inheritance of our father's house?
- Hath he not counted us as strangers and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?
- But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore do all that God hath commanded thee.
- Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.
- And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac his father to the land of Chanaan.
- At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.
- And Jacob would not confess to his father in law that he was flying away.
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