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Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan.

And Rachel said, "I have struggled a mighty struggle with my sister and have prevailed." And she called his name Naphtali.

Then Leah said, "Good fortune!" And she called his name Gad.

Then Leah said, "How happy am I! For women have called me happy." So she called his name Asher.

And in the days of the wheat harvest, Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and he brought them to Leah his mother. And Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

Then Leah said, "God has given me my wage since I gave my servant girl to my husband." And she called his name Issachar.

And Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good gift. This time my husband will acknowledge me, because I bore him six sons." And she called his name Zebulun.

And she called his name Joseph, saying, "Yahweh has added to me another son."

But that day he removed the streaked and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, all that had white on it, and every dark-colored ram, and put them in the charge of his sons.

And Jacob separated the lambs and turned the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the dark-colored in Laban's flocks. And he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with the flocks of Laban.

So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flocks,

Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on the camels.

And he drove all his livestock and his possessions that he had acquired, the livestock of his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, in order to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father.

Then he fled with all that he had, and arose and crossed the Euphrates and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

Then he took his kinsmen with him and pursued after him, a seven-day journey, and he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his kinsmen pitched their tents in the hill country of Gilead.

Then Laban went into Jacob's tent and Leah's tent and the tent of the two female servants and did not find his gods. And he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's tent.

And Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones." And they took stones and made a pile of stones, and they ate there by the pile of stones.

May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.