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the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.

but for the feebler of the flock he would not lay them there. So the feebler would be Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

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.

Why did you flee secretly and trick me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre?

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

And she said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me." So he searched but did not find the household gods.

So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.

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 when Jacob saw them he said, "This is God's camp!" So he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

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

So the present passed on ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.

So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered."

And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two female servants.

So Esau said, "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."

So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get me this girl for my wife."

Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. But his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.

So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments.