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Chapter 31 And he heard the words of
Laban's son, saying, Jacob hath taken away

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all that was our father's, and of that
which was our father's hath he gotten all

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this glory.

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And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban,
and, behold, it was not toward him as

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before.

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And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto
the land of thy fathers, and to thy

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kindred, and I will be with thee.

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And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah
to the field unto his flock, and said unto

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them, I see your father's countenance,
that it is not toward me as before.

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But the God of my father hath been with
me, and ye know that with all my power I

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have served your father.

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And your father hath deceived me,
and changed my wages ten times.

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But God suffered him not to hurt me.

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If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy
wages, then all the cattle bear speckled.

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And if he said thus, The ring-straked
shall be thy hire, then bear all the

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cattle ring-straked.

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Thus God hath taken away the cattle of
your father, and given them to me.

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And it came to pass at the time that the
cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine

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eyes, and saw in a dream, and,
behold, the rams which leaped upon the

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cattle were ring-straked, speckled,
and grizzled.

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And the angel of God spake unto me in a
dream, saying, Jacob.

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And I said, Here am I.

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And he said, Lift up now thine eyes,
and see, all the rams which leap upon the

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cattle are ring-straked, speckled,
and grizzled.

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For I have seen all that Laban doeth unto
thee.

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I am the God of Bethel, where thou
anointedst the pillar, and where thou

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vowedst a vow unto me.

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Now arise, get thee out from this land,
and return unto the land of thy kindred.

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And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto
him, Is there yet any portion or

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inheritance for us in our father's house?

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Are we not counted of him strangers?

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For he hath sold us, and hath quite
devoured also our money.

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For all the riches which God hath taken
from our father that is ours and our

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children's, now then, whatsoever God hath
said unto thee, do.

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Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and
his wives upon camels, and he carried away

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all his cattle, and all his goods which he
had gotten.

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The cattle of his getting, which he had
gotten and paid an heirom, for to go to

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Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

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And Laban went to shear his sheep,
and Rachel had stolen the images that were

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her father's.

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And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the
Syrian, in that he told him not that he

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fled.

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So he fled with all that he had,
and he rose up and passed over the river,

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and set his face toward the Mount Gilead.

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And it was told Laban on the third day
that Jacob was fled.

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And he took his brethren with him,
and pursued after him seven days' journey,

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and they overtook him in the Mount Gilead.

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And God came to Laban the Syrian in a
dream by night, and said unto him,

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Take heed, that thou speak not to Jacob,
either good or bad.

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Then Laban overtook Jacob.

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Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the
mount, and Laban with his brethren pitched

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in the mount of Gilead.

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And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou
done, that thou hast stolen away unawares

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to me, and carried away my daughters,
as captives taken with the sword?

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Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly,
and steal away from me?

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And didst not tell me, that I might have
sent thee away with mirth, and with songs,

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with tabret, and with harp?

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And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons,
and my daughters?

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Thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.

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It is in the power of my hand to do you
hurt.

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But the God of your father spake unto me
yesternight, saying, Take thou heed,

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that thou speak not to Jacob, either good
or bad.

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And now, though thou wouldst needs be
gone, because thou sore longest after thy

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father's house, yet wherefore hast thou
stolen my gods?

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And Jacob answered, and said to Laban,
Because I was afraid.

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For I said, Peradventure, thou wouldst
take by force thy daughters from me,

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with whomsoever thou findest thy gods.

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Let him not live.

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Before our brethren discern thou what is
thine with me, and take it to thee.

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For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen
them.

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And Laban went into Jacob's tent,
and into Leah's tent, and into the two

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maidservants' tents.

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But he found them not.

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Then went he out of Leah's tent,
and entered into Rachel's tent.

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Now Rachel had taken the images,
and put them in the camel's furniture,

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and sat upon them.

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And Laban searched all the tent,
but found them not.

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And she said to her father, Let it not
displease my lord, that I cannot rise up

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before thee, for the custom of women is
upon me.

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And he searched, but found not the images.

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And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban.

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And Jacob answered, and said to Laban,
What is my trespass?

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What is my sin, that thou hast so hotly
pursued after me?

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Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff,
what hast thou found of all thy household

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stuff?

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Set it here, before my brethren and thy
brethren, that they may judge betwixt us

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both.

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This twenty years have I been with thee.

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Thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast
their young, and the rams of thy flock

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have I not eaten.

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That which was torn of beasts,
I brought not unto thee.

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I bear the loss of it.

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Of my hand didst thou acquire it,
whether stolen by day or stolen by night?

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Thus I was, in the day the drought
consumed me, and the frost by night,

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and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

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Thus have I been twenty years in thy
house.

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I served thee fourteen years for thy two
daughters, and six years for thy cattle.

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And thou hast changed my wages ten times.

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Except the God of my father, the God of
Abraham, and the fear of Isaac had been

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with me.

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Surely thou hadst sent me away now empty.

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God hath seen mine affliction,
and the labor of my hands, and rebuked

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thee yesternight.

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And Laban answered and said unto Jacob,
These daughters are my daughters,

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and these children are my children,
and these cattle are my cattle.

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And all that thou seest is mine.

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And what can I do this day unto these my
daughters, or unto their children which

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they have borne?

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Now therefore come thou, let us make a
covenant, I and thou, and let it be for a

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witness between me and thee.

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Gather stones.

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This heap is a witness between me and thee
this day.

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The Lord watch between me and thee when we
are absent one from another.

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If thou shalt afflict my daughters,
or if thou shalt take other wives beside

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my daughters, no man is with us.

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See, God is witness betwixt me and thee.

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And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap,
and behold this pillar, which I have cast

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betwixt me and thee.

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This heap be witness, and this pillar be
witness, that I will not pass over this

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heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass
over this heap and this pillar unto me for

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harm.

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The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor,
the God of their father, judge betwixt us.

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And Jacob swear by the fear of his father
Isaac.

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Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the
mount, and called his brethren to eat

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bread.

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And they did eat bread, and tarried all
night in the mount.

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And early in the morning Laban rose up,
and kissed his sons and his daughters,

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and blessed them.

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And Laban departed, and returned unto his
place.