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of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
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For all the riches
which God hath taken from our father, that
is
ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God
hath said unto thee, do.
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Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
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And he carried away all
his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in
Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
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And Laban went to shear his
sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that
were
her father’s.
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And Jacob stole away unawares
to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
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So he fled with all that he had; and he
rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face
toward
the mount Gilead.
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And it was told
Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
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And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after
him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
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And God came to Laban
the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either
good or bad.
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Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with
his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
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And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that
thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives
taken
with the
sword?
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Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me,
that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
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And
hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
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It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight,
saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
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And now,
though
thou
wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house,
yet
wherefore hast
thou stolen my gods?
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And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said,
Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
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With whomsoever thou findest
thy gods, let him 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.
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And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and
into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found
them
not. Then went he out of
Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
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Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in
the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found
them
not.
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And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the
custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
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And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What
is
my trespass? what
is
my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
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Whereas thou hast
searched 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 both.
38
This twenty years
have
I
been
with thee;
thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
39
That which was torn
of beasts
I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou
require it,
whether
stolen by day, or stolen by night.
40
Thus
I was; in the day the drought consumed
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