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Genesis 31:1 (NASB) New American Standard Bible

1 Jacob learned that Laban's sons were saying, "Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father, and he has accumulated all this wealth of his by using our father's property."
2 Jacob perceived, too, that Laban's attitude toward him was not what it had previously been.
3 Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, where you were born, and I will be with you."
4 So Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to meet him where he was in the field with his flock.
5 There he said to them: "I have noticed that your father's attitude toward me is not as it was in the past; but the God of my father has been with me.
6 You well know what effort I put into serving your father;
7 yet your father cheated me and changed my wages time after time. God, however, did not let him do me any harm.
8 Whenever your father said, 'The speckled animals shall be your wages,' the entire flock would bear speckled young; whenever he said, 'The streaked animals shall be your wages,' the entire flock would bear streaked young.
9 Thus God reclaimed your father's livestock and gave it to me.
10 Once, in the breeding season, I had a dream in which I saw mating he-goats that were streaked, speckled and mottled.
11 In the dream God's messenger called to me, 'Jacob!' 'Here!' I replied.
12 Then he said: 'Note well. All the he-goats in the flock, as they mate, are streaked, speckled and mottled, for I have seen all the things that Laban has been doing to you.
13 I am the God who appeared to you in Bethel, where you anointed a memorial stone and made a vow to me. Up, then! Leave this land and return to the land of your birth.'"
14 Rachel and Leah answered him: "Have we still an heir's portion in our father's house?
15 Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? He not only sold us; he has even used up the money that he got for us!
16 All the wealth that God reclaimed from our father really belongs to us and our children. Therefore, do just as God has told you."
17 Jacob proceeded to put his children and wives on camels,
18 and he drove off with all his livestock and all the property he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.
19 Now Laban had gone away to shear his sheep, and Rachel had meanwhile appropriated her father's household idols.
20 Jacob had hoodwinked Laban the Aramean by not telling him of his intended flight.
21 Thus he made his escape with all that he had. Once he was across the Euphrates, he headed for the highlands of Gilead.
22 On the third day, word came to Laban that Jacob had fled.
23 Taking his kinsmen with him, he pursued him for seven days until he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.
24 But that night God appeared to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, "Take care not to threaten Jacob with any harm!"
25 When Laban overtook Jacob, Jacob's tents were pitched in the highlands; Laban also pitched his tents there, on Mount Gilead.
26 "What do you mean," Laban demanded of Jacob, "by hoodwinking me and carrying off my daughters like war captives?
27 Why did you dupe me by stealing away secretly? You should have told me, and I would have sent you off with merry singing to the sound of tambourines and harps.
28 You did not even allow me a parting kiss to my daughters and grandchildren! What you have now done is a senseless thing.
29 I have it in my power to harm all of you; but last night the God of your father said to me, 'Take care not to threaten Jacob with any harm!'
30 Granted that you had to leave because you were desperately homesick for your father's house, why did you steal my gods?"
31 "I was frightened," Jacob replied to Laban, "at the thought that you might take your daughters away from me by force.
32 But as for your gods, the one you find them with shall not remain alive! If, with my kinsmen looking on, you identify anything here as belonging to you, take it." Jacob, of course, had no idea that Rachel had stolen the idols.
33 Laban then went in and searched Jacob's tent and Leah's tent, as well as the tents of the two maidservants; but he did not find the idols. Leaving Leah's tent, he went into Rachel's.
34 Now Rachel had taken the idols, put them inside a camel cushion, and seated herself upon them. When Laban had rummaged through the rest of her tent without finding them,
35 Rachel said to her father, "Let not my lord feel offended that I cannot rise in your presence; a woman's period is upon me." So, despite his search, he did not find his idols.
36 Jacob, now enraged, upbraided Laban. "What crime or offense have I committed," he demanded, "that you should hound me so fiercely?
37 Now that you have ransacked all my things, have you found a single object taken from your belongings? If so, produce it here before your kinsmen and mine, and let them decide between us two.
38 "In the twenty years that I was under you, no ewe or she-goat of yours ever miscarried, and I have never feasted on a ram of your flock.
39 I never brought you an animal torn by wild beasts; I made good the loss myself. You held me responsible for anything stolen by day or night.
40 How often the scorching heat ravaged me by day, and the frost by night, while sleep fled from my eyes!
41 Of the twenty years that I have now spent in your household, I slaved fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, while you changed my wages time after time.
42 If my ancestral God, the God of Abraham and the Awesome One of Isaac, had not been on my side, you would now have sent me away empty-handed. But God saw my plight and the fruits of my toil, and last night he gave judgment."
43 Laban replied to Jacob: "The women are mine, their children are mine, and the flocks are mine; everything you see belongs to me. But since these women are my daughters, I will now do something for them and for the children they have borne.
44 Come, then, we will make a pact, you and I; the LORD shall be a witness between us."
45 Then Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial stone.
46 Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather some stones." So they got some stones and made a mound; and they had a meal there at the mound.
47 Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob named it Galeed.
48 "This mound," said Laban, "shall be a witness from now on between you and me." That is why it was named Galeed--
49 and also Mizpah, for he said: "May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are out of each other's sight.
50 If you mistreat my daughters, or take other wives besides my daughters, remember that even though no one else is about, God will be witness between you and me."
51 Laban said further to Jacob: "Here is this mound, and here is the memorial stone that I have set up between you and me.
52 This mound shall be witness, and this memorial stone shall be witness, that, with hostile intent, neither may I pass beyond this mound into your territory, nor may you pass beyond it into mine.
53 May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor (their ancestral deities) maintain justice between us!" Jacob took the oath by the Awesome One of Isaac.
54 He then offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his kinsmen to share in the meal. When they had eaten, they passed the night on the mountain.
1 And he heard H8085 the words H1697 CMP of Laban H3837 \'s sons H1121 , saying H559 L-VQFC , Jacob H3290 hath taken away H3947 VQQ3MS all H3605 NMS that H834 RPRO was our father H1 \'s ; and of that which H834 RPRO was our father H1 \'s hath he gotten H6213 VQQ3MS all H3605 NMS this H2088 D-PMS glory H3519 .
2 And Jacob H3290 beheld H7200 W-VIY3MS the countenance H6440 CMP of Laban H3837 , and , behold H2009 IJEC , it was not H369 toward H5973 PREP-3MS him as before H8543 .
3 And the LORD H3068 EDS said H559 W-VQY3MS unto H413 PREP Jacob H3290 , Return H7725 VQFC unto H413 PREP the land H776 GFS of thy fathers H1 , and to thy kindred H4138 ; and I will be H1961 with H5973 PREP-2FS thee .
4 And Jacob H3290 sent H7971 W-VQY3MS and called H7121 W-VQY3MS Rachel H7354 and Leah H3812 to the field H7704 D-NMS unto H413 PREP his flock H6629 ,
5 And said H559 W-VQY3MS unto them , I H595 PPRO-1MS see H7200 VQPMS your father H1 \'s countenance H6440 CMP , that H3588 CONJ it is not H369 toward H413 PREP-1MS me as before H8543 ; but the God H430 of my father H1 CMS-1MS hath been H1961 VQQ3MS with H5973 me .
6 And ye H859 know H3045 that H3588 CONJ with all H3605 B-CMS my power H3581 CMS-1MS I have served H5647 your father H1 .
7 And your father H1 hath deceived H2048 me , and changed H2498 my wages H4909 ten H6235 times H4489 ; but God H430 EDP suffered H5414 him not H3808 W-NPAR to hurt H7489 me .
8 If H518 PART he said H559 VQY3MS thus H3541 , The speckled H5348 shall be H1961 VQY3MS thy wages H7939 ; then all H3605 CMS the cattle H6629 bore H3205 W-VQQ3MP speckled H5348 : and if H518 PART he said H559 VQY3MS thus H3541 , The ringstreaked H6124 shall be H1961 VQY3MS thy hire H7939 ; then bore H3205 W-VQQ3MP all H3605 CMS the cattle H6629 ringstreaked H6124 .
9 Thus God H430 EDP hath taken away H5337 the cattle H4735 CMS of your father H1 , and given H5414 W-VQY3MS them to me .
10 And it came to pass H1961 W-VQY3MS at the time H6256 that the cattle H6629 conceived H3179 , that I lifted up H5375 mine eyes H5869 CMD-1MS , and saw H7200 in a dream H2472 BD-NMS , and , behold H2009 IJEC , the rams H6260 which leaped H5927 upon H5921 PREP the cattle H6629 were ringstreaked H6124 , speckled H5348 , and grizzled H1261 .
11 And the angel H4397 of God H430 D-EDP spoke H559 W-VQY3MS unto H413 PREP-1MS me in a dream H2472 BD-NMS , saying , Jacob H3290 : And I said H559 W-VQY3MS , Here H2009 am I .
12 And he said H559 W-VQY3MS , Lift up H5375 VQI2MS now H4994 IJEC thine eyes H5869 CMD-2MS , and see H7200 W-VQI2MS , all H3605 NMS the rams H6260 which leap H5927 upon H5921 PREP the cattle H6629 are ringstreaked H6124 , speckled H5348 , and grizzled H1261 : for H3588 CONJ I have seen H7200 VQQ1MS all H3605 NMS that H834 RPRO Laban H3837 doeth H6213 VQPMS unto thee .
13 I H595 PPRO-1MS am the God H410 of Bethel H1008 LFS , where H834 RPRO thou anointedst H4886 the pillar H4676 , and where H834 RPRO thou vowedst H5087 a vow H5088 unto me : now H6258 ADV arise H6965 VQI2MS , get thee out H3318 VQI2MS from H4480 PREP this H2063 D-DFS land H776 D-GFS , and return H7725 unto H413 PREP the land H776 GFS of thy kindred H4138 .
14 And Rachel H7354 and Leah H3812 answered H6030 and said H559 unto him , Is there yet H5750 any portion H2506 CMS or inheritance H5159 for us in our father H1 \'s house H1004 B-CMS ?
15 Are we not H3808 D-NPAR counted H2803 VNQ1MP of him strangers H5237 ? for H3588 CONJ he hath sold H4376 us , and hath quite devoured H398 also H1571 CONJ our money H3701 .
16 For H3588 CONJ all H3605 NMS the riches H6239 which H834 RPRO God H430 EDP hath taken H5337 from our father H1 , that H1931 PPRO-3MS is ours , and our children H1121 \'s : now H6258 W-ADV then , whatsoever H3605 NMS God H430 EDP hath said H559 VQQ3MS unto H413 PREP-2MS thee , do H6213 .
17 Then Jacob H3290 rose up H6965 W-VQY3MS , and set H5375 W-VQY3MS his sons H1121 CMP-3MS and his wives H802 upon H5921 PREP camels H1581 ;
18 And he carried away H5090 all H3605 NMS his cattle H4735 CMS-3MS , and all H3605 NMS his goods H7399 CMS-3MS which H834 RPRO he had gotten H7408 , the cattle H4735 CMS of his getting H7075 , which H834 RPRO he had gotten H7408 in Padan H6307 - aram , for to go H935 L-VQFC to H413 PREP Isaac H3327 his father H1 CMS-3MS in the land H776 NFS-3FS of Canaan H3667 LMS .
19 And Laban H3837 went H1980 VQQ3MS to shear H1494 his sheep H6629 GFS-3MS : and Rachel H7354 had stolen H1589 the images H8655 that H834 RPRO were her father H1 \'s .
20 And Jacob H3290 stole away H1589 unawares H3820 NMS to Laban H3837 the Syrian H761 , in that H5921 PREP he told H5046 VHQ3MS him not H1097 ADV that H3588 CONJ he H1931 PPRO-3MS fled H1272 VQPMS .
21 So he H1931 PPRO-3MS fled H1272 W-VQY3MS with all H3605 W-CMS that H834 RPRO he had ; and he rose up H6965 W-VQY3MS , and passed over H5674 W-VQY3MS the river H5104 D-NMS , and set H7760 W-VQY3MS his face H6440 CMP-3MS toward the mount H2022 CMS Gilead H1568 .
22 And it was told H5046 Laban H3837 on the third H7992 D-ONUM day H3117 B-AMS that H3588 CONJ Jacob H3290 was fled H1272 .
23 And he took H3947 W-VQY3MS his brethren H251 NMP-3MS with H5973 PREP-3MS him , and pursued H7291 W-VQY3MS after H310 PREP-3MS him seven H7651 RMS days H3117 NMP \' journey H1870 NMS ; and they overtook H1692 him in the mount H2022 Gilead H1568 .
24 And God H430 EDP came H935 W-VQY3MS to H413 PREP Laban H3837 the Syrian H761 in a dream H2472 by night H3915 AMS , and said H559 W-VQY3MS unto him , Take heed H8104 VNI2MS that H6435 CONJ thou speak H1696 not to H5973 Jacob H3290 either good H2896 or H5704 PREP bad H7451 AMS .
25 Then Laban H3837 overtook H5381 Jacob H3290 . Now Jacob H3290 had pitched H8628 his tent H168 in the mount H2022 : and Laban H3837 with H854 PREP his brethren H251 NMP-3MS pitched H8628 in the mount H2022 of Gilead H1568 .
26 And Laban H3837 said H559 W-VQY3MS to Jacob H3290 , What H4100 IPRO hast thou done H6213 VQQ2MS , that thou hast stolen away H1589 unawares H3824 CMS-1MS to me , and carried away H5090 my daughters H1323 , as captives H7617 taken with the sword H2719 GFS ?
27 Wherefore H4100 L-IPRO didst thou flee away H2244 secretly H1272 L-VQFC , and steal away H1589 from me ; and didst not H3808 W-NPAR tell H5046 VHQ2MS me , that I might have sent thee away H7971 with mirth H8057 B-NFS , and with songs H7892 , with tabret H8596 , and with harp H3658 ?
28 And hast not H3808 W-NPAR suffered H5203 me to kiss H5401 my sons H1121 and my daughters H1323 ? thou hast now H6258 ADV done foolishly H5528 in so doing H6213 .
29 It is H3426 ADV in the power H410 L-NMS of my hand H3027 CFS-1MS to do H6213 L-VQFC you hurt H7451 AMS : but the God H430 of your father H1 spoke H559 VQQ3MS unto H413 PREP-1MS me last night H570 CMS , saying H559 L-VQFC , Take thou heed H8104 VNI2MS that thou speak H1696 not to H5973 PREP-3MP Jacob H3290 either good H2896 or H5704 PREP bad H7451 AMS .
30 And now H6258 W-ADV , though thou wouldest needs be gone H1980 , because H3588 CONJ thou sore longedst H3700 after thy father H1 NMS \'s house H1004 , yet wherefore H4100 L-IPRO hast thou stolen H1589 my gods H430 CMP-1MS ?
31 And Jacob H3290 answered H6030 W-VQY3MS and said H559 W-VQY3MS to Laban H3837 , Because H3588 CONJ I was afraid H3372 : for H3588 CONJ I said H559 W-VQY3MS , Peradventure H6435 CONJ thou wouldest take by force H1497 thy daughters H1323 from me .
32 With H5973 PREP whomsoever H834 RPRO thou findest H4672 VQY2MS thy gods H430 CMP-2MS , let him not H3808 NADV live H2421 : before H5048 our brethren H251 discern H5234 thou what H4100 IGAT is thine with H5973 PREP me , and take H3947 it to thee . For Jacob H3290 knew H3045 VQQ3MS not H3808 ADV that H3588 CONJ Rachel H7354 had stolen H1589 them .
33 And Laban H3837 went H935 W-VQY3MS into Jacob H3290 \'s tent H168 , and into Leah H3812 \'s tent H168 , and into the two H8147 ONUM maidservants H519 \' tents H168 ; but he found H4672 VQPMS them not H3808 W-NPAR . Then went H3318 W-VQY3MS he out of Leah\'s tent H168 , and entered H935 W-VQY3MS into Rachel H7354 \'s tent H168 .
34 Now Rachel H7354 had taken H3947 the images H8655 , and put H7760 them in the camel H1581 \'s furniture H3733 , and sat H3427 upon H5921 PREP-3MP them . And Laban H3837 searched H4959 all H3605 NMS the tent H168 , but found H4672 them not H3808 W-NPAR .
35 And she said H559 W-VQY3FS to H413 PREP her father H1 , Let it not H408 NPAR displease H2734 my lord H113 that H3588 CONJ I cannot H3808 W-NPAR rise up H6965 before H6440 M-CMP-2MS thee ; for H3588 CONJ the custom H1870 of women H802 GFP is upon me . And he searched H2664 , but found H4672 VQPMS not H3808 W-NPAR the images H8655 .
36 And Jacob H3290 was wroth H2734 W-VQY3MS , and chided H7378 with Laban H3837 : and Jacob H3290 answered H6030 W-VQY3MS and said H559 W-VQY3MS to Laban H3837 , What H4100 IPRO is my trespass H6588 CMS-1MS ? what H4100 IPRO is my sin H2403 , that H3588 CONJ thou hast so hotly pursued H1814 after H310 me ?
37 Whereas H3588 CONJ thou hast searched H4959 all H3605 NMS my stuff H3627 , what H4100 IPRO hast thou found H4672 of all H3605 NMS thy household H1004 stuff H3627 ? set H7760 VQFC it here H3541 before H5048 my brethren H251 NMP-1MS and thy brethren H251 NMP-1MS , that they may judge H3198 between H996 PREP us both H8147 CMD-3MS .
38 This H2088 DPRO twenty H6242 years H8141 NFS have I H595 PPRO-1MS been with H5973 PREP-2FS thee ; thy ewes H7353 and thy she goats H5795 have not H3808 NADV cast their young H7921 , and the rams H352 of thy flock H6629 have I not H3808 NADV eaten H398 .
39 That which was torn H2966 of beasts I brought H935 not H3808 NADV unto H413 PREP-2MS thee ; I H595 PPRO-1MS bore the loss H2398 of it ; of my hand H3027 didst thou require H1245 VPY2MS-3FS it , whether stolen H1589 by day H3117 NMS , or stolen H1589 by night H3915 NMS .
40 Thus I was H1961 VQQ1MS ; in the day H3117 the drought H2721 consumed H398 me , and the frost H7140 by night H3915 ; and my sleep H8142 departed H5074 from mine eyes H5869 .
41 Thus H2088 DPRO have I been twenty H6242 years H8141 NFS in thy house H1004 ; I served H5647 thee fourteen H702 years H8141 NFS for thy two H8147 daughters H1323 , and six H8337 W-RFS years H8141 NFP for thy cattle H6629 : and thou hast changed H2498 my wages H4909 ten H6235 times H4489 .
42 Except H3884 the God H430 NAME-4MP of my father H1 CMS-1MS , the God H430 NAME-4MP of Abraham H85 , and the fear H6343 of Isaac H3327 , had been H1961 VQQ3MS with me , surely H3588 CONJ thou hadst sent me away H7971 now H6258 ADV empty H7387 ADV . God H430 EDP hath seen H7200 VQQ3MS mine affliction H6040 and the labor H3018 CMS of my hands H3709 , and rebuked H3198 thee last night H570 .
43 And Laban H3837 answered H6030 W-VQY3MS and said H559 W-VQY3MS unto H413 PREP Jacob H3290 , These daughters H1323 are my daughters H1323 , and these children H1121 are my children H1121 , and these cattle H6629 WD-NMS are my cattle H6629 , and all H3605 W-CMS that H834 RPRO thou H859 PPRO-2MS seest H7200 VQPMS is mine : and what H4100 IGAT can I do H6213 this day H3117 D-AMS unto these H428 my daughters H1323 , or H176 CONJ unto their children H1121 which H834 RPRO they have born H3205 ?
44 Now H6258 W-ADV therefore come H1980 VQI2MS-3FS thou , let us make H3772 a covenant H1285 CFS , I H589 PPRO-1MS and thou H859 ; and let it be H1961 W-VQQ3MS for a witness H5707 L-NMS between H996 W-PREP-1MS me and thee .
45 And Jacob H3290 took H3947 W-VQY3MS a stone H68 NFS , and set it up H7311 for a pillar H4676 .
46 And Jacob H3290 said H559 W-VQY3MS unto his brethren H251 , Gather H3950 stones H68 NFP ; and they took H3947 W-VQY3MP stones H68 NFP , and made H6213 an heap H1530 : and they did eat H398 W-VQY3MP there H8033 ADV upon H5921 PREP the heap H1530 .
47 And Laban H3837 called H7121 W-VQY3MS it Jegar H3026 - sahadutha : but Jacob H3290 called H7121 W-VQY3MS it Galeed H1567 .
48 And Laban H3837 said H559 W-VQY3MS , This H2088 D-PMS heap H1530 is a witness H5707 between H996 W-PREP-1MS me and thee this day H3117 D-AMS . Therefore H5921 PREP was the name H8034 CMS-3MS of it called H7121 Galeed H1567 ;
49 And Mizpah H4709 ; for H834 RPRO he said H559 VQQ3MS , The LORD H3068 EDS watch H6822 between H996 W-PREP-1MS me and thee , when H3588 CONJ we are absent H5641 one H376 from another H7453 .
50 If H518 PART thou shalt afflict H6031 my daughters H1323 , or if H518 PART thou shalt take H3947 VQY2MS other wives H802 GFP beside H5921 PREP my daughters H1323 , no H369 NPAR man H376 NMS is with H5973 PREP-1MP us ; see H7200 VQI2MS , God H430 EDP is witness H5707 between H996 W-PREP-1MS me and thee .
51 And Laban H3837 said H559 W-VQY3MS to Jacob H3290 , Behold H2009 IJEC this H2088 D-PMS heap H1530 , and behold H2009 IJEC this pillar H4676 , which H834 RPRO I have cast H3384 between H996 W-PREP-1MS me and thee ;
52 This H2088 D-PMS heap H1530 be witness H5707 , and this pillar H4676 be witness H5713 , that H518 PART I H589 PPRO-1MS will not H3808 ADV pass over H5674 this H2088 D-PMS heap H1530 to H413 PREP-2MS thee , and that H518 PART thou H859 PPRO-2MS shalt not H3808 NADV pass over H5674 this H2088 D-PMS heap H1530 and this H2063 D-DFS pillar H4676 unto H413 PREP-1MS me , for harm H7451 .
53 The God H430 CDP of Abraham H85 , and the God H430 of Nahor H5152 EMS , the God H430 CDP of their father H1 CMS-3MP , judge H8199 between H996 B-PREP-3MS us . And Jacob H3290 swore H7650 by the fear H6343 of his father H1 CMS-3MS Isaac H3327 .
54 Then Jacob H3290 offered H2076 sacrifice H2077 NMS upon the mount H2022 , and called H7121 W-VQY3MS his brethren H251 to eat H398 bread H3899 NMS : and they did eat H398 W-VQY3MP bread H3899 NMS , and tarried all night H3885 in the mount H2022 .
55 And early in the morning H1242 Laban H3837 rose up H7925 , and kissed H5401 his sons H1121 L-CMP-3MS and his daughters H1323 , and blessed H1288 them : and Laban H3837 departed H1980 W-VQY3MS , and returned H7725 unto his place H4725 .
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