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Thus God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.

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Jacob Flees with Family and Flocks

31 Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s; he has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father.”

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16 All the property that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children; now then, do whatever God has said to you.”

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15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 20.15 Gk is your eye evil because I am good?

22 The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children,
    but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.(A)

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10 For every wild animal of the forest is mine,
    the cattle on a thousand hills.(A)

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Esther Saves the Jews

On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews, and Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her.(A) Then the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. So Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.(B)

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