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Then he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is nothing else than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!"

And Jacob made a vow saying, "If God will be with me and protect me on this way that I am going, and gives me food to eat and clothing to wear,

and if I return in peace to the house of my father, then Yahweh will become my God.

And this stone that I have set up as a pillar shall be the house of God, and of all that you give to me I will certainly give a tenth to you."

And Jacob became angry with Rachel. And he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan.

And God listened to Leah and she conceived and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob.

Then Leah said, "God has given me my wage since I gave my servant girl to my husband." And she called his name Issachar.

And Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good gift. This time my husband will acknowledge me, because I bore him six sons." And she called his name Zebulun.

Then God remembered Rachel and listened to her, and God opened her womb.

And she conceived and gave birth to a son. And she said, "God has taken away my disgrace."

and he said to them, "Look, I see the face of your father, that it is not like it has been toward me in the past. But the God of my father is with me.

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

God has taken away your father's livestock and given them to me.

Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,' and I said, ‘Here I am.'

I am the God of Bethel where you anointed a stone pillar, where you made a vow to me. Now get up, go out from this land and return to the land of your birth.'"

For all the wealth that God has taken away from our father, it belongs to us and to our sons. So now, all that God has said to you, do."

And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, "Take care that you not speak with Jacob, whether good or evil."

It is in my power to do harm to you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night saying, ‘Take care from speaking with Jacob, whether good or evil.'

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, indeed now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my misery and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night."