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Themes in Genesis 31
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Themes in Genesis 31

Genesis 31:1

Now he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, "Jacob has taken all that our father has," and "From that which [was] our father's he has gained all this wealth."

Genesis 31:2

Then Jacob saw the face of Laban and, behold, {it was not like it had been in the past}.

Genesis 31:3

And Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your ancestors and to your family, and I will be with you."

Genesis 31:4

So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flocks,

Genesis 31:5

and he said to them, "Look, I see the face of your father, that {it is not like it has been toward me in the past}. But the God of my father is with me.

Genesis 31:6

Now you yourselves know that I have served your father with all my strength,

Genesis 31:7

and your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to harm me.

Genesis 31:8

If thus he said, 'Speckled shall be your wage,' then all the flock bore speckled. And [if] he said, 'Streaked shall be your wage,' then all the flock bore streaked.

Genesis 31:9

God has taken away your father's livestock and given [them] to me.

Genesis 31:10

Now it happened [that] at the time of the mating of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams mounting the flock [were] streaked, speckled, and dappled.

Genesis 31:11

Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I [am].'

Genesis 31:12

And he said, 'Lift up your eyes and see--all the rams mounting the flock [are] streaked, speckled, and dappled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

Genesis 31:13

I [am] the God of Bethel where you anointed a stone pillar, where you made a vow to me. Now get up, go out from this land and return to the land of your birth.'"

Genesis 31:14

Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, "[Is there] yet a portion for us, and an inheritance in the house of our father?

Genesis 31:15

Are we not regarded [as] foreigners by him, because he has sold us and completely consumed our money?

Genesis 31:16

For all the wealth that God has taken away from our father, it belongs to us and to our sons. So now, all that God has said to you, do."

Genesis 31:17

Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on the camels.

Genesis 31:18

And he drove all his livestock and his possessions that he had acquired, the livestock of his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, in order to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

Genesis 31:19

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father.

Genesis 31:20

And Jacob {tricked} Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he [intended to] flee.

Genesis 31:21

Then he fled with all that he had, and arose and crossed the Euphrates and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 31:22

And on the third day it was told to Laban that Jacob had fled.

Genesis 31:23

Then he took his kinsmen with him and pursued after him, a seven-day journey, and he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 31:24

And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, "{Take care} that you not speak with Jacob, whether good or evil."

Genesis 31:25

And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his kinsmen pitched [their tents] in the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 31:26

Then Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done that you {tricked me} and have carried off my daughters like captives of the sword?

Genesis 31:27

Why did you hide [your intention] to flee and {trick me}, and did not tell me so that I would have sent you away with joy and song and tambourine and lyre?

Genesis 31:28

And [why] did you not give me opportunity to kiss my grandsons and my daughters [goodbye]? Now you have behaved foolishly [by] doing [this].

Genesis 31:29

{It is in my power} to do harm to you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night saying, '{Take care} from speaking with Jacob, whether good or evil.'

Genesis 31:30

Now, you have surely gone because you desperately longed for the house of your father, [but] why did you steal my gods?"

Genesis 31:31

Then Jacob answered and said to Laban, "Because I [was] afraid, for I thought, 'Lest you take your daughters from me by force.'

Genesis 31:32

[But] with whomever you find your gods, he shall not live. In the presence of your kinsmen [now] identify what [is] with me [that is] yours and take it." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

Genesis 31:33

Then Laban went into Jacob's tent and Leah's tent and the tent of the two female servants and did not find [his gods]. And he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's tent.

Genesis 31:34

Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them in the saddle bag of the camel and sat on them. And Jacob searched the whole tent thoroughly but did not find them.

Genesis 31:35

And she said to her father, "Let there not be anger in the eyes of my lord, for I am not able to rise before you, for the way of women [is] with me. And he searched carefully and did not find the idols.

Genesis 31:36

Then Jacob became angry and quarreled with Laban. Jacob answered and said to Laban, "What [is] my offense? What [is] my sin that you pursued after me?

Genesis 31:37

For you have searched all my possessions and what did you find among all the possessions of my household? Set it before my kinsmen and your kinsmen that they may decide between the two of us!

Genesis 31:38

These twenty years I [was] with you; your ewes and your female goats did not miscarry, and the rams of your flocks I did not eat.

Genesis 31:39

I brought no mangled carcass to you--I bore its loss. From my hand you sought it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

Genesis 31:40

[There] I was, during the day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 31:41

These twenty years [I have been] in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 31:42

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, indeed now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my misery and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night."

Genesis 31:43

Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, "The daughters [are] my daughters and the grandsons [are] my grandsons, and the flocks [are] my flocks, and all that you see, it [is] mine. Now, what can I do for these my daughters today, or for their children whom they have borne?

Genesis 31:44

So now, come, let us {make} a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between me and you."

Genesis 31:45

And Jacob took a stone and set it up [as] a stone pillar.

Genesis 31:46

And Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones." And they took stones and made a pile of stones, and they ate there by the pile of stones.

Genesis 31:47

And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

Genesis 31:48

Then Laban said, "This pile of stones [is] a witness between me and you today." Therefore its name is called Galeed,

Genesis 31:49

and Mizpah, because he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you when {we are out of sight of each other}.

Genesis 31:50

If you mistreat my daughters, and if you take wives besides my daughters, [when] there is no man with us, see--God [is] a witness between me and you."

Genesis 31:51

And Laban said to Jacob, "See, this pile of stones, and see the pillar that I have set up between me and you.

Genesis 31:52

This pile of stones [is] a witness, and the pillar [is] a witness, that I will not pass beyond this pile of stones to you, and that you will not pass beyond this pile of stones and this pillar to me intending harm.

Genesis 31:53

May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

Genesis 31:54

And Jacob sacrificed a sacrifice on the hill, and he called his kinsmen to eat the meal. And they ate the meal and spent the night on the hill.

Genesis 31:55

And Laban arose early in the morning and kissed his grandsons and his daughters, and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his homeland.
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