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Why did you flee secretly, and cheat 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 maidservants, 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 army!" So he called the name of that place Mahana'im.

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

So the present passed on before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

So Jacob called the name of the place Peni'el, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved."

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 maids.

So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the men 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 Se'ir.

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

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

Ask of me ever so much as marriage present and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; only give me the maiden to be my wife."

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;

So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.

And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were round about them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

And Deb'orah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel; so the name of it was called Al'lon-bacuth.