1But after that he had heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and being enriched by his substance is become great.

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Ecclesiastes 4:4, Ecclesiastes 4:4, Proverbs 27:4, Jeremiah 9:23, Job 31:31

2And perceiving also, that Laban's countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day.

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Daniel 3:19, Daniel 3:19, 1 Samuel 18:9, 1 Samuel 18:11, Genesis 4:5

3Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.

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Genesis 28:15, Genesis 28:15, Genesis 32:9, Genesis 32:9, Isaiah 41:10

4He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks,

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5And said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me.

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Genesis 31:2, Genesis 31:3, Genesis 31:2, Genesis 31:3, Genesis 31:42

6And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power.

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Genesis 30:29, Genesis 30:29, Colossians 3:22, Colossians 3:25, Genesis 31:38

7Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.

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Genesis 31:41, Genesis 31:29, Genesis 31:41, Genesis 31:29, Zechariah 8:23

8If at any time, he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white one for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones.

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Genesis 30:32, Genesis 30:32

9And God hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me.

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Genesis 31:1, Genesis 31:1, Genesis 31:16, Genesis 31:16, Esther 8:1

10For after the time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep, that the males which leaped upon the females were of divers colours, and spotted, and speckled.

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Deuteronomy 13:1, Deuteronomy 13:1, Genesis 31:24, Genesis 20:6, Numbers 12:6

11And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob. And I answered: Here I am.

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Genesis 31:13, Isaiah 58:9, Genesis 31:13, Isaiah 58:9, Genesis 18:17

12And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers colours, spotted and speckled. For I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee.

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Exodus 3:7, Exodus 3:7, Genesis 31:42, Deuteronomy 24:15, Genesis 31:42

13I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country.

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Genesis 31:3, Genesis 31:3, Genesis 32:9, Genesis 32:9, Genesis 28:12

14And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father's house?

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Genesis 2:24, Ruth 4:11, Genesis 2:24, Ruth 4:11, Genesis 29:29

15Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?

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Genesis 29:15, Genesis 29:20, Genesis 29:15, Genesis 29:20, Genesis 29:27

16But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded thee.

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Genesis 31:9, Psalms 45:10, Genesis 30:35, Genesis 31:1, Genesis 31:9

17Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.

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1 Samuel 30:17, Genesis 24:61, Genesis 24:10, 1 Samuel 30:17, Genesis 24:61

18And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac, his father, to the land of Chanaan.

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Genesis 28:21, Genesis 27:1, Genesis 27:2, Genesis 27:41, Genesis 35:27

19At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.

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1 Samuel 19:13, 1 Samuel 19:13, Genesis 31:30, Hosea 3:4, Genesis 31:30

20And Jacob would not confess to his father-in-law that he was flying away.

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21And when he was gone, together with all that belonged to him, and having passed the river, was going on towards mount Galaad,

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2 Kings 12:17, 2 Kings 12:17, Genesis 31:23, Luke 9:51, Luke 9:53

22It was told Laban on the third day, that Jacob fled.

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Exodus 14:5, Exodus 14:31, Job 5:12, Job 5:13, Genesis 30:36

23And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.

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Exodus 2:11, Genesis 13:8, Exodus 2:13, Genesis 24:27, Exodus 2:11

24And he saw in a dream God, saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.

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Genesis 24:50, Genesis 24:50, Genesis 20:3, Genesis 20:3, Genesis 31:29

25Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he, with his brethren, had overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same mount of Galaad.

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Hebrews 11:9, Genesis 12:8, Genesis 33:18, Hebrews 11:9, Genesis 12:8

26And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters as captives taken with the sword?

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1 Samuel 30:2, 1 Samuel 30:2, Genesis 12:18, Genesis 20:9, Genesis 20:10

27Why wouldst thou run away privately, and not acquaint me, that I might have brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with timbrels, and with harps?

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Exodus 15:20, Exodus 15:20, Judges 6:27, Genesis 31:3, Genesis 31:5

28Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters; thou hast done foolishly; and now indeed,

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Genesis 31:55, Genesis 31:55, Ruth 1:14, Acts 20:37, 1 Kings 19:20

29It is in my power to return thee evil; but the God of your father said to me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.

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Genesis 31:53, Genesis 31:42, Genesis 31:53, Genesis 31:42, Genesis 31:24

30Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father's house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?

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Genesis 31:19, Judges 18:24, Genesis 31:19, Judges 18:24, Jeremiah 10:11

31Jacob answered: That I departed unknown to thee, it was for fear lest thou wouldst take away thy daughters by force.

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Proverbs 29:25, Proverbs 29:25, Genesis 31:26, Genesis 31:27, Genesis 20:11

32But, whereas, thou chargest me with theft: with whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, let him be slain before our brethren. Search, and if thou find any of thy things with me, take them away. Now when he said this, he knew not that Rachel had stolen the idols.

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Genesis 31:23, 1 Samuel 12:3, 1 Samuel 12:5, Genesis 31:30, Genesis 31:19

33So Laban went into the tent of Jacob, and of Lia, and of both the handmaids, and found them not. And when he was entered into Rachel's tent,

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Genesis 24:28, Genesis 24:67, Genesis 24:28, Genesis 24:67

34She, in haste, hid the idols under the camel's furniture, and sat upon them: and when he had searched all the tent, and found nothing,

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Genesis 31:17, Genesis 31:19, Genesis 31:17, Genesis 31:19

35She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women. So his careful search was in vain.

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Leviticus 19:32, Leviticus 19:32, Exodus 20:12, Exodus 20:12, Leviticus 19:3

36And Jacob being angry, said in a chiding manner: For what fault of mine, and for what offence on my part hast thou so hotly pursued me,

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Ephesians 4:26, Ephesians 4:26, Genesis 49:7, 2 Kings 5:11, 2 Kings 13:19

37And searched all my household stuff? What hast thou found of all the substance of thy house? lay it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and let them judge between me and thee.

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1 Peter 2:12, Hebrews 13:18, Matthew 18:16, 1 Peter 3:16, 1 Corinthians 6:4

38Have I, therefore, been with thee twenty years? thy ewes and goats were not barren, the rams of thy flocks I did not eat:

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Genesis 30:27, Ezekiel 34:2, Ezekiel 34:4, Genesis 30:30, Deuteronomy 28:4

39Neither did I shew thee that which the beast had torn; I made good all the damage: whatsoever was lost by theft, thou didst exact it of me:

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Luke 2:8, Exodus 22:31, 1 Samuel 17:34, 1 Samuel 17:35, Exodus 22:10

40Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep departed from my eyes.

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1 Peter 5:2, 1 Peter 5:4, Hebrews 13:7, John 21:15, John 21:17

41And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.

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Genesis 31:7, Genesis 31:7, 1 Corinthians 15:10, Genesis 29:18, Genesis 29:30

42Unless the God of my father, Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had stood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.

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Psalms 31:7, Psalms 31:7, Genesis 31:29, Genesis 31:53, Genesis 31:29

43Laban answered him: The daughters are mine, and the children, and thy flocks, and all things that thou seest are mine: what can I do to my children, and grandchildren?

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44Come, therefore, let us enter into a league; that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.

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Joshua 24:25, Joshua 24:27, Joshua 22:27, Genesis 31:48, 1 Samuel 20:14

45And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title.

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Genesis 28:18, Genesis 28:22, Genesis 28:18, Genesis 28:22

46And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they, gathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.

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Ecclesiastes 3:5, Ecclesiastes 3:5, Joshua 7:26, Joshua 4:5, Joshua 4:9

47And Laban called it, The witness heap; and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.

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Hebrews 12:1, Hebrews 12:1

48And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.

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Joshua 24:27, Joshua 24:27, Joshua 13:8, Joshua 13:9, Deuteronomy 2:36

49The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one from the other.

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Judges 11:29, Judges 11:29, Judges 10:17, Judges 10:17, 1 Samuel 7:5

50If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.

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Jeremiah 42:5, Jeremiah 42:5, Jeremiah 29:23, Jeremiah 29:23, Micah 1:2

51And he said again to Jacob: Behold this heap, and the stone which I have set up between me and thee,

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52Shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for a testimony, if either I shall pass beyond it going towards thee, or thou shalt pass beyond it thinking harm to me.

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Genesis 31:48, Genesis 31:48, Genesis 31:44, Genesis 31:45, Genesis 31:44

53The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac:

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Genesis 31:42, Genesis 31:42, Genesis 16:5, Genesis 16:5, Joshua 24:2

54And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there:

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Exodus 18:12, Exodus 18:12, Genesis 37:25, 2 Samuel 3:20, 2 Samuel 3:21

55But Laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons and daughters, and blessed them: and returned to his place.

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Genesis 31:28, Genesis 31:28, Genesis 18:33, Genesis 30:25, Genesis 18:33