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the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
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And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be
according to thy word.
35
And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted,
and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted,
and
every one that had
some
white in it, and
all the brown among the sheep, and gave
them
into the hand of his sons.
36
And he set three days
journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
37
And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white
strakes in them, and made the white appear which
was
in the rods.
38
And he set the rods which he
had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink,
that they should conceive when they came to drink.
39
And the flocks conceived before the rods,
and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
40
And Jacob did separate the lambs,
and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and
he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban’s cattle.
41
And it came to pass,
whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle
in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
42
But when the cattle were feeble, he put
them
not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
43
And the man increased
exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
CHAPTER 31
And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that
was
our father’s;
and of
that
which
was
our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.
2
And Jacob beheld the countenance
of Laban, and, behold, it
was
not toward him as before.
3
And the L
ORD
said unto Jacob, Return
unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
4
And Jacob sent and called
Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
5
And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance,
that it
is
not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
6
And ye know that
with all my power I have served your father.
7
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my
wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
8
If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy
wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then
bare all the cattle ringstraked.
9
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given
them
to me.
10
And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and
saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle
were
ringstraked, speckled, and
grisled.
11
And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream,
saying,
Jacob: And I said, Here
am
I.
12
And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle
are
ringstraked,
speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
13
I
am
the God of Bethel,
where thou anointedst the pillar,
and
where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out
from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
14
And Rachel and Leah answered and said
unto him,
Is there
yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
15
Are we not counted
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