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Genesis 31:1-21 — Jacob Flees from Laban

Gen.31.1-21

¹Now Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, “Jacob has taken all that belonged to our father, and from what belonged to our father he has gained all this wealth .” ²And Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and behold, it was not toward him as before. ³Then Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.” ⁴So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock, ⁵and he 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. ⁶You know that I have served your father with all my strength. ⁷Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to harm me. ⁸If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then the whole flock bore speckled offspring; and if he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then the whole flock bore streaked offspring. ⁹Thus God has taken away your father's livestock and given them to me. ¹⁰During the mating season of the flock, I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and mottled. ¹¹In the dream, the angel of God said to me, 'Jacob!' And I said , 'Here I am.' ¹²He said, 'Lift up your eyes and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, and mottled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you. ¹³I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now arise, leave this land, and return to the land of your kindred.'" ¹⁴Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, "Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father's house? ¹⁵Are we not considered by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has entirely consumed our money. ¹⁶Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. Now then, do whatever God has told you." ¹⁷Then Jacob arose and put his sons and his wives on the camels. ¹⁸He drove all his livestock before him, along with all his possessions that he had acquired—the livestock he possessed, which he had acquired in Paddan-aram—to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan. ¹⁹Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the household gods that belonged to her father. ²⁰Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing. ²¹So he fled with all that he had ; he arose, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

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4/11/2026

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