1He 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."

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

2Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

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

3The Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."

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

4Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

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5and 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.

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

6You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

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

7Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

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

8If 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.

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Genesis 30:32, Genesis 30:32

9Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given them to me.

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

10It happened during mating season that 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.

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

11The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'

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

12He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

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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 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.'"

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

14Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

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

15Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

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

16For 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."

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

17Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

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

18and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

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

19Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

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

20Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he was running away.

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21So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

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

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

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

23He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

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

24God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad."

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

25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

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

26Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

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

27Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and did not tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

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

28and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.

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

29It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad.'

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

30Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"

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

31Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'

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

32Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

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

33Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he did not find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

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

34Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but did not find them.

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

35She said to her father, "Do not let my lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for the manner of women is on me." He searched, but did not find the teraphim.

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

36Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?

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

37Now 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.

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

38These 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.

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

39That which was torn of animals, I did not bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

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

40This 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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1 Peter 5:2, 1 Peter 5:4, Hebrews 13:7, John 21:15, John 21:17

41These 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.

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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, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."

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

43Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

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44Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."

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

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

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

46Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

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

47Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

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Hebrews 12:1, Hebrews 12:1

48Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed

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

49and Mizpah, for he said, "The Lord watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

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

50If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."

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

51Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

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52May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

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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 Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Then 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

54Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.

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

55Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.

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