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¹And 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.[ † ]Psalms 49:16 ²And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.[ † ]Genesis 4:5Deuteronomy 28:54 ³And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.[ † ]Genesis 28:15-20, 21Genesis 32:9Genesis 46:4

⁴And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, ⁵and 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.[ † ]Genesis 31:2-3Genesis 21:22Genesis 28:13-15Genesis 31:29-42, 53Isaiah 41:10Hebrews 13:5 ⁶And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.[ † ]Genesis 30:29Genesis 31:38-41 ⁷And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.[ † ]Genesis 29:25Genesis 31:41Numbers 14:22Nehemiah 4:12Job 19:3Zechariah 8:23Genesis 15:1Genesis 20:6Genesis 31:29Job 1:10Psalms 37:28Psalms 105:14 ⁸If 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.[ † ]Genesis 30:32 ⁹Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.[ † ]Genesis 31:1-16 ¹⁰And 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. ¹¹And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying , Jacob: And I said, Here am I.[ † ]Genesis 16:7-11Genesis 22:11-15Genesis 31:13Genesis 48:16 ¹²And 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.[ † ]Genesis 31:42Exodus 3:7Psalms 139:3Ecclesiastes 5:8 ¹³I am the God of Beth-el, 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.[ † ]Genesis 28:16-22Genesis 35:1-6, 15Genesis 31:3Genesis 32:9 ¹⁴And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?[ † ]Genesis 2:24 ¹⁵Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.[ † ]Genesis 29:15-20, 23, 27Nehemiah 5:8 ¹⁶For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is our's, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

¹⁷Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels; ¹⁸and 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.[ † ]Genesis 17:8Genesis 33:18Genesis 35:27 ¹⁹And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.[ † ]Genesis 31:30-34Genesis 35:2Judges 17:51 Samuel 19:13Hosea 3:4 ²⁰And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. ²¹So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.[ † ]Genesis 46:282 Kings 12:17Luke 9:51-53

²²And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. ²³And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.[ † ]Genesis 13:8 ²⁴And 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.[ † ]Genesis 20:3Genesis 31:29Genesis 46:2-4Job 33:15Matthew 1:20Genesis 24:50Genesis 31:7-29

²⁵Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead. ²⁶And 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?[ † ]1 Samuel 30:2 ²⁷Wherefore 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? ²⁸And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.[ † ]Genesis 31:55Ruth 1:9-141 Kings 19:20Acts 20:371 Samuel 13:13 ²⁹It 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.[ † ]Genesis 28:13Genesis 31:5-24, 42, 53Genesis 31:24 ³⁰And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?[ † ]Genesis 31:19Joshua 24:2Judges 17:5Judges 18:24 ³¹And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.[ † ]Genesis 26:7Genesis 32:7-11 ³²With 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.[ † ]Genesis 44:9

³³And 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. ³⁴Now 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. ³⁵And 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.[ † ]Exodus 20:12Leviticus 19:32

³⁶And 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? ³⁷Whereas 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. ³⁸This 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. ³⁹That 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.[ † ]Exodus 22:10Exodus 22:10-13 ⁴⁰Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. ⁴¹Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.[ † ]Genesis 29:20-27-30Genesis 31:7 ⁴²Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.[ † ]Genesis 31:5-29, 53Psalms 124:1-2Genesis 31:53Isaiah 8:13Genesis 29:32Exodus 3:7Genesis 31:24-291 Chronicles 12:17

⁴³And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born? ⁴⁴Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.[ † ]Genesis 21:27-32Genesis 26:28Joshua 24:27

⁴⁵And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.[ † ]Genesis 28:18Genesis 35:14Joshua 24:26-27 ⁴⁶And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap. ⁴⁷And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. ⁴⁸And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;[ † ]Joshua 24:27 ⁴⁹and Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.[ † ]Judges 10:17Judges 11:291 Samuel 7:5-6 ⁵⁰If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee. ⁵¹And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee; ⁵²this heap be witness, and this 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. ⁵³The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.[ † ]Genesis 16:5Genesis 21:23Genesis 31:42

⁵⁴Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount. ⁵⁵And 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.[ † ]Genesis 29:11-13Genesis 31:28-43Genesis 28:1Genesis 18:33Genesis 30:25Numbers 24:25