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Genesis - ch 31 v 1 - 20
- And he heareth the words of Laban's sons, saying, `Jacob hath taken all that our father hath; yea, from that which our father hath, he hath made all this honour;'
- and Jacob seeth the face of Laban, and lo, it is not with him as heretofore.
- And Jehovah saith unto Jacob, `Turn back unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I am with thee.'
- And Jacob sendeth and calleth for Rachel and for Leah to the field unto his flock;
- and saith to them, `I am beholding your father's face -- that it is not towards me as heretofore, and the God of my father hath been with me,
- and ye -- ye have known that with all my power I have served your father,
- and your father hath played upon me, and hath changed my hire ten times; and God hath not suffered him to do evil with me.
- `If he say thus: The speckled are thy hire, then bare all the flock speckled ones; and if he say thus: The ring-straked are thy hire, then bare all the flock ring-straked;
- and God taketh away the substance of your father, and doth give to me.
- `And it cometh to pass at the time of the flock conceiving, that I lift up mine eyes and see in a dream, and lo, the he-goats, which are going up on the flock, `are' ring-straked, speckled, and grisled;
- and the messenger of God saith unto me in the dream, Jacob, and I say, Here `am' I.
- `And He saith, Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and see -- all the he-goats which are going up on the flock `are' ring-straked, speckled, and grisled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to thee;
- I `am' the God of Bethel where thou hast anointed a standing pillar, where thou hast vowed a vow to me; now, arise, go out from this land, and turn back unto the land of thy birth.'
- And Rachel answereth -- Leah also -- and saith to him, `Have we yet a portion and inheritance in the house of our father?
- have we not been reckoned strangers to him? for he hath sold us, and he also utterly consumeth our money;
- for all the wealth which God hath taken away from our father, it `is' ours, and our children's; and now, all that God hath said unto thee -- do.'
- And Jacob riseth, and lifteth up his sons and his wives on the camels,
- and leadeth all his cattle, and all his substance which he hath acquired, the cattle of his getting, which he hath acquired in Padan-Aram, to go unto Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
- And Laban hath gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stealeth the teraphim which her father hath;
- and Jacob deceiveth the heart of Laban the Aramaean, because he hath not declared to him that he is fleeing;
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