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Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him: ‘Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house? <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Are we not accounted by him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our price. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children’s. Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">a</a></span>the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night, and said unto him: ‘Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountain of Gilead. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And Laban said to Jacob: ‘What hast thou done, that thou hast outwitted me, and carried away my daughters as though captives of the sword? <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and outwit me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt; but the God of your father spoke unto me yesternight, saying: Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And now that thou art surely gone, because thou sore longest after thy father’s house, wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And Jacob answered and said to Laban: ‘Because I was afraid; for I said: Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from me by force. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live; before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee.’—For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.— <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he found them not. And he went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the saddle of the camel, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And she said to her father: ‘Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me.’ And he searched, but found not the teraphim. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban: ‘What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me? <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Whereas thou hast felt about all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us two. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bore the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Thus I was: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>These twenty years have I been in thy house: I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been on my side, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave judgment yesternight.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And Laban answered and said unto Jacob: ‘The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine; and what can I do this day for these my daughters, or for their children whom they have borne? <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>And Jacob said unto his brethren: ‘Gather stones’; and they took stones, and made a heap. And they did eat there by the heap. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>And Laban called it <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">b</a></span>Jegar-sahadutha; but Jacob called it <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">c</a></span>Galeed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>And Laban said: ‘This heap is witness between me and thee this day.’ Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>and <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">d</a></span>Mizpah, for he said: ‘The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives beside my daughters, no man being with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>And Laban said to Jacob: ‘Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set up betwixt me and thee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>This heap be witness, and the pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us.’ And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span>And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread; and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mountain. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/31-55.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. And Laban departed, and returned unto his place.<hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><br>{fn: a} That is the Euphrates.<br>{fn: b} That is, The heap of witness in Aramaic. <br>{fn: c} That is, The heap of witness in Hebrew.<br>{fn: d} That is, The watch-post.</span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/30.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 30"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 30" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/32.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 32"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 32" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/genesis/31-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); var rcds = document.getElementById("rcjsload_a957f3"); var rcel = document.createElement("script"); rcel.id = 'rc_' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000); rcel.type = 'text/javascript'; rcel.src = "https://trends.revcontent.com/serve.js.php?w=111176&t="+rcel.id+"&c="+(new Date()).getTime()+"&width="+(window.outerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth)+"&referer="+encodeURIComponent(referer); rcel.async = true; rcds.appendChild(rcel); })(); </script> </td></tr></table> <br /><br /> <div class="bot2"> <table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2-bhub.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></body></html>