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Leah said, "God has given me my hire because I gave my maid to my husband"; so she called his name Is'sachar.

Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons"; so she called his name Zeb'ulun.

and she called his name Joseph, saying, "May the LORD add to me another son!"

But that day Laban removed the he-goats that were striped and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in charge of his sons;

And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own droves apart, and did not put them with Laban's flock.

So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock was,

So Jacob arose, and set his sons and his wives on camels;

and he drove away all his cattle, all his livestock which he had gained, the cattle in his possession which he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.

Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.

He fled with all that he had, and arose and crossed the Euphra'tes, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead.

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

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

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

and Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his kinsmen to eat bread; and they ate bread and tarried all night on the mountain.

Early in the morning Laban arose, and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them; then he departed and returned home.

Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him;

And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Se'ir, the country of Edom,

So he lodged there that night, and took from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau,

These he delivered into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on before me, and put a space between drove and drove."