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Genesis
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English: Webster's Bible |
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Genesis 31 [Context] [Commentary] [Map] 
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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 obtained all this glory. |
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And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and behold, it was not towards him as before. |
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And the LORD said to Jacob, Return to the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. |
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And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field to his flock, |
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And said to them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not towards me as before: but the God of my father hath been with me. |
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And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. |
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And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times: 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 bore speckled: and if he said thus, The ring-streaked shall be thy hire; then all the cattle bore ring-streaked. |
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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 my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled. |
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And the angel of God spoke to me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I. |
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And he said, Lift up now thy eyes and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth to thee. |
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I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst to me a vow: now arise, depart from this land, and return to the land of thy kindred. |
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And Rachel and Leah answered, and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? |
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Are we not counted by him strangers; for he hath sold us, and hath quite consumed also our money. |
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For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then whatever God hath said to thee, do. |
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Then Jacob arose, and set his sons and his wives upon camels; |
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And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gained, the cattle of his getting, which he had gained in Padan-aram; to go to 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 her father's. |
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And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he was about to depart. |
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So he fled with all that he had; and he arose, and passed over the river, and set his face towards the mount Gilead. |
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