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Then Leah said, "A troop comes!" [fn] So she called his name Gad. [fn]

Then Leah said, "I am happy, for the daughters will call me blessed." So she called his name Asher. [fn]

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

Leah said, "God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband." So she called his name Issachar. [fn]

And Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons." So she called his name Zebulun. [fn]

So she called his name Joseph, [fn] and said, "The Lord shall add to me another son."

So he removed that day the male goats that were speckled and spotted, all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

Then Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban's flock.

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

Then Jacob rose and set his sons and his wives on camels.

And he carried away all his livestock and all his possessions which he had gained, his acquired livestock which he had gained in Padan Aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen the household idols that were her father's.

Then he took his brethren with him and pursued him for seven days' journey, and he overtook him in the mountains of Gilead.

So Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountains, and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountains of Gilead.

Then Jacob said to his brethren, "Gather stones." And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap.

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

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed all night on the mountain.

And early in the morning Laban arose, and kissed his sons and daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his place.

So Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.