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31And 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 gotten all this glory.
²And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
³And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
⁴And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
⁵And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
⁶And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
⁷And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
⁸If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
⁹Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
¹⁰And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
¹¹And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.
¹²And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
¹³I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
¹⁴And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
¹⁵Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
¹⁶For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
¹⁷Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
¹⁸And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
¹⁹And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
¹⁴And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
¹⁵Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
¹⁶For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
¹⁷Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
¹⁸And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
¹⁹And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
²⁰And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
²¹So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.