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So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

But he said, "Your brother came with deceit and has taken away your blessing."

And he called the name of that place Bethel; [fn] but the name of that city had been Luz previously.

But they said, "We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they have rolled the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep."

Leah's eyes were delicate, but Rachel was beautiful of form and appearance.

When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

But she said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?" And Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."

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.

But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban's and the stronger Jacob's.

and said to them, "I see your father's countenance, that it is not favorable toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

But God had come to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, "Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad."

It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, "Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.'

And now you have surely gone because you greatly long for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods?"

And Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the two maids' tents, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah's tent and entered Rachel's tent.

Now Rachel had taken the household idols, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. And Laban searched all about the tent but did not find them.

And she said to her father, "Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is with me." And he searched but did not find the household idols.

And Laban answered and said to Jacob, "These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and this flock is my flock; all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?

Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, [fn] but Jacob called it Galeed. [fn]

So the present went on over before him, but he himself lodged that night in the camp.