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Monday, November 4th, 2024
the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Passage Lookup: Genesis 31

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Genesis 31:1
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Now (F1)Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and from what belonged to our father he has made all this (F2)wealth."
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Genesis 31:2
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And Jacob saw the (F1)attitude of Laban, and behold, it was not friendly toward him as it had been before.
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Genesis 31:3
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Then the LORD said to Jacob, "(C1)Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and (C2)I will be with you."
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Genesis 31:4
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So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to his flock in the field,
Genesis 31:5
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and said to them, "(C1)I see your father's (F1)attitude, that it is not friendly toward me as it was before, but (C2)the God of my father has been with me.
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Genesis 31:6
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"(C1)You know that I have served your father with all my strength.
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Genesis 31:7
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"Yet your father has (C1)cheated me and (C2)changed my wages ten times; however, (C3)God did not allow him to do me harm.
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Genesis 31:8
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"If (C1)he said this: 'The speckled shall be your wages,' then all the flock delivered speckled; and if he said this: 'The striped shall be your wages,' then all the flock delivered striped.
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Genesis 31:9
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"So God has (C1)taken away your father's livestock and given them to me.
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Genesis 31:10
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"And it came about at the time when the flock was breeding that I raised my eyes and saw in a dream—and behold—the male goats that were (F1)mating were striped, speckled, or mottled.
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Genesis 31:11
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"Then (C1)the angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob'; and I said, 'Here I am.'
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Genesis 31:12
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"He said, 'Now raise your eyes and see that all the male goats that are (F1)mating are striped, speckled, or mottled; for (C1)I have seen everything that Laban has been doing to you.
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Genesis 31:13
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'I am (C1)the God of Bethel, where you (C2)anointed a memorial stone, where you made a vow to Me; now arise, (F1)leave this land, and (C3)return to the land of your birth.'"
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Genesis 31:14
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Rachel and Leah said to him, "Do we still have any share or inheritance in our father's house?
Genesis 31:15
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"Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For (C1)he has sold us, and has also (F1)entirely consumed our (F2)purchase price.
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Genesis 31:16
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"Surely all the wealth which God has taken away from our father belongs to us and our children; now then, do whatever God has told you."
Genesis 31:17
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Then Jacob stood up and put his children and his wives on camels;
Genesis 31:18
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and he drove away all his livestock and all his property which he had acquired, the livestock he possessed which he had acquired in Paddan-aram, (C1)to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.
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Genesis 31:19
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Laban had gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stole the (F1)(C1)household idols that were her father's.
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Genesis 31:20
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And Jacob (F1)deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing.
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Genesis 31:21
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So he fled with all that he had; and he got up and crossed the Euphrates River, and set (F1)out for the hill country of (C1)Gilead.
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Genesis 31:22
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When Laban was informed on the third day that Jacob had fled,
Genesis 31:23
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he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him a distance of seven days' journey, and he overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
Genesis 31:24
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However, (C1)God came to Laban the Aramean in a (C2)dream of the night and said to him, "(F1)(C3)Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad."
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Genesis 31:25
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And Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen camped in the hill country of Gilead.
Genesis 31:26
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Then Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done (F1)by deceiving me and carrying away my daughters like captives of the sword?
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Genesis 31:27
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"Why did you flee secretly and (F1)deceive me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with (C1)tambourine and with (C2)lyre;
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Genesis 31:28
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and did not allow me (C1)to kiss my (F1)grandchildren and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.
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Genesis 31:29
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"It is in (F1)my power to do you harm, but (C1)the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, '(F2)(C2)Be careful not to speak either good or bad to Jacob.'
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Genesis 31:30
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"Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house; but why did you steal (C1)my gods?"
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Genesis 31:31
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Then Jacob replied to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.
Genesis 31:32
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"(C1)The one with whom you find your gods shall not live; in the presence of our relatives (F1)point out what is yours (F2)among my belongings and take it for yourself." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
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Genesis 31:33
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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.
Genesis 31:34
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Now Rachel had taken the (F1)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.
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Genesis 31:35
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And she said to her father, "May my lord not be angry that I cannot (C1)stand in your presence, because the (F1)way of women is upon me." So he searched but did not find the (F2)(C2)household idols.
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Genesis 31:36
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Then Jacob became angry and argued with Laban; and Jacob said to Laban, "What is my offense? What is my sin that you have hotly pursued me?
Genesis 31:37
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"Though you have searched through all my property, what have you found of all your household property? Set it here in front of my relatives and your relatives, so that they may decide between the two of us.
Genesis 31:38
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"For these twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.
Genesis 31:39
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"I did not even bring to you that which was torn by wild animals; I took the loss myself. You demanded it of my hand whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
Genesis 31:40
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"This is how I was: by day the (F1)heat consumed me and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
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Genesis 31:41
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"For these twenty years I have been in your house; (C1)I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you (C2)changed my wages ten times.
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Genesis 31:42
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"If (C1)the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. (C2)God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, so He (C3)rendered judgment last night."
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Genesis 31:43
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Then Laban replied to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the (F1)children are my (F1)grandchildren, (C1)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?
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Genesis 31:44
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"So now come, let's (C1)make a covenant, (F1)you and I, and (C2)it shall be a witness between (F2)you and me."
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Genesis 31:45
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Then Jacob took (C1)a stone and set it up as a memorial stone.
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Genesis 31:46
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Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.
Genesis 31:47
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Now Laban (C1)called it (F1)Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it (F2)Galeed.
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Genesis 31:48
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Laban said, "(C1)This heap is a witness between (F1)you and me this day." Therefore it was named Galeed,
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Genesis 31:49
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and (F1)(C1)Mizpah, for he said, "May the LORD keep watch between (F2)you and me when we are (F3)absent one from the other.
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Genesis 31:50
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"If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us, see, (C1)God is witness between (F1)you and me."
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Genesis 31:51
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Laban also said to Jacob, "Behold this heap and behold the memorial stone which I have set between (F1)you and me.
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Genesis 31:52
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"This heap is a witness, and the memorial stone is a witness, that I will not pass by this heap to you for harm, and you will not pass by this heap and this memorial stone to me, for harm.
Genesis 31:53
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"(C1)The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, (C2)judge between us." So Jacob swore by (C3)the fear of his father Isaac.
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Genesis 31:54
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Then Jacob (C1)offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his relatives to (F1)the meal; and they ate (F2)the meal and spent the night on the mountain.
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Genesis 31:55
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(F1)Then early in the morning Laban got up, and (C1)kissed his (F2)grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his place.
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