55;
55 Early the next morning Laban
kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then he left and
returned home. (1)
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53 May
the GOD of Abraham and the GOD of Nahor, the GOD of their father,
judge between us.” So Jacob took an oath in the Name of the Fear of his father
Isaac. (8)
54 He Offered a Sacrifice there in the hill
country and invited his relatives to a meal. After they had eaten, they spent
the night there.
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44 Come
now, let’s make a Covenant,
you and I, and let it serve as a witness
between us.” (8)
45 So Jacob took a Stone and set it up as a
Pillar.
46 He said to his
relatives, “Gather some
Stones.” So they took Stones and piled them in
a heap, and they ate there by the heap.
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35 Rachel
said to her father, “Don’t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your
presence; I’m having my period.” So he searched but could not find the
household gods.
36 Jacob was angry and
took Laban to task. “What is my
crime?”
he asked Laban. “How have I
wronged you that you hunt me down?
37 Now that you have
searched through all my goods, what have you found that belongs to your
household? Put it here in front of your relatives and mine, and let them judge between the Two of us.
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26 Then
Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You’ve deceived me, and you’ve
carried off my daughters like captives in war. (8)
27 Why did you run off
secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me, so I could send you away with joy and singing to the
music of timbrels and harps?
28 You didn’t even let me kiss my
grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. You have done a foolish thing.
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17 Then
Jacob put his children and his wives on camels, (8)
18 and he drove all
his livestock ahead of him, along with all the goods he had accumulated in
Paddan Aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.
19 When Laban had gone
to shear his sheep, Rachel
stole her father’s household gods.
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8 If
he said, ‘The speckled ones will be your wages,’ then all the flocks gave birth
to speckled young; and if he said, ‘The streaked ones will be your wages,’ then
all the flocks bore streaked young.
(8)
9 So God has taken
away your father’s livestock and has given them to me.
10 “In breeding season I once had a dream in which I looked up and saw that the male goats
mating with the flock were streaked, speckled or spotted.
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50 If
you mistreat my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even
though no one is with us, remember that
GOD is a witness
between you and me.” (5)
51 Laban also said to
Jacob, “Here is this
heap, and here is this Pillar I have set up between you and me.
52 This heap is a
Witness, and this Pillar is a Witness, that I will not go
past this heap to your side to harm you and that you will not go past this heap
and Pillar to my side to harm me.
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41 It
was like this for the
Twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you Fourteen years for your Two daughters
and six
years for your flocks, and you
changed my wages Ten
times.
(5)
42 If the GOD of my father, the GOD of Abraham and the FEAR of Isaac, had not been with
me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But GOD has seen my
hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night He rebuked you.”
43 Laban answered
Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the
flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these
daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?
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32 But if you find anyone who has
your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our
relatives, see for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me;
and if so, take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.
(5)
33 So Laban went into
Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent and into the tent of the two female servants,
but he found nothing. After he came out of Leah’s tent, he entered Rachel’s
tent.
34 Now Rachel had
taken the household gods and put them inside her camel’s saddle and was sitting
on them. Laban searched through everything in the tent but found nothing.
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23 Taking
his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for Seven
days and caught up with him in
the hill country of Gilead. (5)
24 Then GOD came to Laban the
Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
25 Jacob had pitched
his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and
his relatives camped there too.
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14 Then
Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we still have any share in the inheritance of our
father’s estate?
(5)
15 Does he not regard
us as foreigners? Not only has he sold us, but he has used up what was paid for
us.
16 Surely all the
wealth that GOD took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever GOD has told you.”
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5 He
said to them, “I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not what it was
before, but the GOD of my father has been with me. (5)
6 You know that I’ve
worked for your father with all my strength,
7 yet your father has cheated me
by changing my wages Ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me.
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47 Laban
called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed. (2)
48 Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” That is why it was
called Galeed.
49 It was also called
Mizpah, because he said, “May the Lord
keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other.
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38 “I
have been with you for Twenty years
now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from
your flocks. (2)
39 I did not bring you
animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from
me for whatever was stolen by day or night.
40 This was my
situation: The heat consumed me
in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
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29 I
have the power to harm you; but last night the GOD of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not
to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’ (2)
30 Now you have gone
off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you
steal my gods?”
31 Jacob answered Laban,
“I was afraid,
because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force.
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20 Moreover,
Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was running away. (2)
21 So he fled with all
he had, crossed the Euphrates River, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.
Laban Pursues Jacob
22 On the Third day Laban was told that Jacob had
fled.
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11 The
angel of GOD said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob.’ I answered, ‘Here I am.’ (2)
12 And He said, ‘Look up and see
that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled or
spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.
13 I am the GOD of BETHEL, where you
Anointed a Pillar and where you made a Vow to ME. Now leave this land at once
and go back to your native land.’”
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Jacob Flees From
Laban
31 Jacob heard that
Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken everything our father owned and has
gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father.”
2 And
Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was not what it had been. (2)
3 Then the Lord
said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your
relatives, and I will be with you.”
4 So Jacob sent word to Rachel and
Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were.
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