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"So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come concerning my wages. Every one that is not speckled or spotted among the goats, or black among the lambs, if found with me, will be considered stolen."

"He said, 'Now raise your eyes and see that all the male goats that are mating are striped, speckled, or mottled; for I have seen everything that Laban has been doing to you.

"Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also entirely consumed our purchase price.

So he fled with all that he had; and he got up and crossed the Euphrates River, and set out for the hill country of Gilead.

"Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house; but why did you steal my gods?"

Then Jacob replied to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.

"The one with whom you find your gods shall not live; in the presence of our relatives point out what is yours among my belongings and take it for yourself." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

"For these twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.

"For these twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.

"If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, so He rendered judgment last night."

and Mizpah, for he said, "May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent one from the other.

"This heap is a witness, and the memorial stone is a witness, that I will not pass by this heap to you for harm, and you will not pass by this heap and this memorial stone to me, for harm.

for he said, "If Esau comes to the one company and attacks it, then the company which is left will escape."

I am unworthy of all the favor and of all the faithfulness, which You have shown to Your servant; for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two companies.

"Save me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children.

"For You said, 'I will assuredly make you prosper and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be counted.'"

So he spent the night there. Then he selected from what he had with him a gift for his brother Esau:

and you shall say, 'Behold, your servant Jacob also is behind us.'" For he said, "I will appease him with the gift that goes ahead of me. Then afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me."

Then he said, "Let me go, for the dawn is breaking." But he said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."

Then he said, "Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have contended with God and with men, and have prevailed."