Genesis 31:1-8
1599 Geneva Bible
31 1 Laban’s children murmur against Jacob. 3 God commandeth him to return to his country. 13, 14 The care of God for Jacob. 19 Rachel stealeth her father’s idols. 23 Laban followeth Jacob. 44 The covenant between Laban and Jacob.
1 Now he heard the [a]words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s, and of our father’s goods hath he gotten all this honor.
2 Also Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, [b]that it was not towards him as in times past:
3 And the Lord had said unto Jacob, Turn again into the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.
4 Therefore Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock.
5 Then said he unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not towards me [c]as it was wont, and the [d]God of my father hath been with me.
6 And ye know that I have served your father with all my might,
7 But your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages [e]ten times: but God suffered him not to hurt me.
8 If he thus said, The spotted shall be thy wages, then all the sheep bare spotted: and if he said thus, the parti-colored shall be thy reward, then bare all the sheep parti-colored.
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- Genesis 31:1 The children uttered in words that which the father dissembled in heart, for the covetous think that whatsoever they cannot snatch, is plucked from them.
- Genesis 31:2 Hebrew, and lo, not be with him, as yesterday, and ere yesterday.
- Genesis 31:5 Hebrew, as yesterday and before yesterday.
- Genesis 31:5 The God whom my father worshipped.
- Genesis 31:7 Or, many times.
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