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

By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you break loose, you shall break his yoke from your neck."

But the words of her elder son Esau were told to Rebekah; so she sent and called her younger son Jacob and said to him, "Your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you.

He called that place Bethel; but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

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

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob; and he went in to her.

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?" Rachel said, "Then he may lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."

But Laban said to him, "If you will allow me to say so, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you;

For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly; and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?"

But that day Laban removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female 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;

but for the feebler of the flock he did not lay them there; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

and said to them, "I see that your father does not regard me as favorably as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me.

yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not permit him to harm me.

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night, and said to him, "Take heed that you say not a word to Jacob, either good or bad."

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

But anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsfolk, point out what I have that is yours, and take it." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.

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

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