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Genesis 31
1 - He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our father's, has he gotten all this wealth."
3 - The LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
5 - and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.
6 - You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
8 - If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.
9 - Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given them to me.
10 - During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
13 - I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"
15 - Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.
16 - For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."
21 - So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
27 - Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
28 - and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.
30 - Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"
35 - She said to her father, "Don't let my lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for I'm having my period." He searched, but didn't find the teraphim.
37 - Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
38 - "These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.
39 - That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
40 - This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
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