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

but when the flock was sickly, he did not put them in; so the sickly were Laban's, and the stronger were Jacob's.

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

"It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Be careful not to speak either good or bad to Jacob.'

"Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house; but why did you steal my gods?"

So Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two slave women, 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 and put them in the camel's saddlebag, and she sat on them. So Laban searched through all the tent, but did not find them.

And she said to her father, "May my lord not be angry that I cannot stand in your presence, because the way of women is upon me." So he searched but did not find the household idols.

Then Laban replied to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my grandchildren, the flocks are my flocks, and everything that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these daughters of mine or to their children to whom they have given birth?

Now Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

Then he said, "Let me go, for the dawn is breaking." But he said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."

Then he said, "Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have contended with God and with men, and have prevailed."

And Jacob asked him and said, "Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And he blessed him there.

But he himself passed on ahead of them and bowed down to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

But Esau said, "I have plenty, my brother; let what you have be your own."

But he said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds that are nursing are a matter of concern to me. And if they are driven hard just one day, all the flocks will die.

Then Esau said, "Please let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built for himself a house and made booths for his livestock; therefore the place is named Succoth.

But he was deeply attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to her.

Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah; but his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob said nothing until they came in.