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Then Leah said, "What good fortune!" So she named him Gad.

Then Leah said, "How happy I am! The women will call me happy." So she named him Asher.

So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. "You must sleep with me," she said. "I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he slept with her that night.

Then Leah said, "God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband." So she named him Issachar.

Then Leah said, "God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons." So she named him Zebulun.

After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland.

Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink,

Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches,

but if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob.

So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were.

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

Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you."

So he fled with all he had, crossed the Euphrates River, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

Why did you run off secretly and deceive me? Why didn't you tell me, so I could send you away with joy and singing to the music of timbrels and harps?

But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me; and if so, 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 female servants, but he found nothing. After he came out of Leah's tent, he entered Rachel's tent.

Rachel said to her father, "Don't be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I'm having my period." So he searched but could not find the household gods.

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

He said to his relatives, "Gather some stones." So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.