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Reuben went out during the wheat harvest and found some mandrakes in the field.
But Leah replied to her, “Isn’t it enough that you have taken my husband? Now you also want to take my son’s mandrakes?”
“Well,” Rachel said, “you can sleep with him tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So Jacob slept with her that night.
Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my slave to my husband,” and she named him Issachar.
“God has given me a good gift,” Leah said. “This time my husband will honor me because I have borne six sons for him,” and she named him Zebulun.
Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.
Give me my wives and my children that I have worked for, and let me go.
So Jacob said to him, “You know what I have done for you and your herds.
For you had very little before I came, but now your wealth has increased. The Lord has blessed you because of me. And now, when will I also do something for my own family?”
Laban asked, “What should I give you?”
And Jacob said, “You don’t need to give me anything. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to shepherd and keep your flock.
Let me go through all your sheep today and remove every sheep that is speckled or spotted, every dark-colored sheep among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the female goats. Such will be my wages.
That day Laban removed the streaked and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored one among the lambs, and he placed his sons in charge of them.
He put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob. Jacob, meanwhile, was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flock.
Jacob then took branches of fresh poplar, almond, and plane wood, and peeled the bark, exposing white stripes on the branches.
He set the peeled branches in the troughs in front of the sheep—in the water channels where the sheep came to drink. And the sheep bred when they came to drink.
The flocks bred in front of the branches and bore streaked, speckled, and spotted young.
Jacob separated the lambs and made the flocks face the streaked and the completely dark sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and didn’t put them with Laban’s sheep.
Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs, in full view of the flocks, and they would breed in front of the branches.
As for the weaklings of the flocks, he did not put out the branches. So it turned out that the weak sheep belonged to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.
And the man became very rich.
Now Jacob heard what Laban’s sons were saying: “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s and has built this wealth from what belonged to our father.”
And Jacob saw from Laban’s face that his attitude toward him was not the same.
Then the Lord said to him, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you.”
and that he has cheated me and changed my wages 10 times. But God has not let him harm me.
“When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.
And He said, ‘Look up and see: all the males that are mating with the flocks are streaked, spotted, and speckled, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.
I am the God of Bethel, where you poured oil on the stone marker and made a solemn vow to Me.
Then Rachel and Leah answered him, “Do we have any portion or inheritance in our father’s household?
Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? For he has sold us
In fact, all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has said to you.”
He took all the livestock and possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, and he drove his herds to go to the land of his father Isaac in Canaan.
He fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for
So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him at Mount Gilead.
When Laban overtook Jacob, Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his brothers also pitched their tents in the hill country of Gilead.
Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and taken my daughters away like prisoners of war!
Why did you secretly flee from me, deceive me, and not tell me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and lyres,
but you didn’t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters. You have acted foolishly.
If you find your gods with anyone here, he will not live!
So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two female slaves, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.
Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of the camel, and sat on them. Laban searched the whole tent but found nothing.
Then Jacob became incensed and brought charges against Laban. “What is my crime?” he said to Laban. “What is my sin, that you have pursued me?
You’ve searched all my possessions! Have you found anything of yours? Put it here before my relatives and yours, and let them decide between the two of us.
I’ve been with you these 20 years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams from your flock.
There I was—the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
For 20 years I have worked in your household—14 years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work,
Then Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters; the sons, my sons; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne?
Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I.
So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a marker.
Then Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a mound, then ate there by the mound.
Then Laban said, “This mound is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore the place was called Galeed
and also Mizpah,
If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, though no one is with us, understand that God will be a witness between you and me.”
Laban also said to Jacob, “Look at this mound and the marker I have set up between you and me.
This mound is a witness and the marker is a witness that I will not pass beyond this mound to you, and you will not pass beyond this mound and this marker to do me harm.
The God of Abraham, and the gods
Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. So they ate a meal and spent the night on the mountain.
He commanded them, “You are to say to my lord Esau, ‘This is what your servant Jacob says. I have been staying with Laban and have been delayed until now.
I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male and female slaves. I have sent this message to inform my lord, in order to seek your favor.’”
When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you—and he has 400 men with him.”
Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; he divided the people with him into two camps, along with the flocks, cattle, and camels.
He thought, “If Esau comes to one camp and attacks it, the remaining one can escape.”
Then Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac,
I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two camps.
Please rescue me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him; otherwise, he may come and attack me, the mothers, and their children.
You have said, ‘I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’”
He spent the night there and took part of what he had brought with him as a gift for his brother Esau:
30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
He entrusted them to his slaves as separate herds and said to them, “Go on ahead of me, and leave some distance between the herds.”
And he told the first one: “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you?’
then tell him, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau. And look, he is behind us.’”
He also told the second one, the third, and everyone who was walking behind the animals, “Say the same thing to Esau when you find him.
You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me.”
During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his 11 sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok.
He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.
Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
When the man saw that He could not defeat him, He struck Jacob’s hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip.
“Your name will no longer be Jacob,”
Then Jacob asked Him, “Please tell me Your name.”
But He answered, “Why do you ask My name?”
Jacob then named the place Peniel,
Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with 400 men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female slaves.
He put the female slaves and their children first, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
He himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground
But Esau ran to meet him, hugged him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. Then they wept.
When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?”
He answered, “The children God has graciously given your servant.”
Then the female slaves and their children approached him and bowed down.
Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.
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