These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Genesis 31
Tanakh 55 verses
- 1 And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying: ‘ hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this wealth.’
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And beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime.
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- 3 And said unto : ‘Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.’
- 4 And sent and called and to the field unto his flock,
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and said unto them: ‘I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the of my father hath been with me.
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And ye that with all my power I have served your father.
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- 7 And your father hath mocked me, and changed my wages ten times; but suffered him not to hurt me.
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If he said thus: The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said thus: The streaked shall be thy wages; then bore all the flock streaked.
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Thus hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
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And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
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- 11 And the of said unto me in the dream: ; and I said: Here am I.
- 12 And he said: Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled; for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
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I am the of Beth-el, where thou didst anoint a pillar, where thou didst vow a vow unto Me. Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity.’
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And and answered and said unto him: ‘Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
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Are we not accounted by him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our price.
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For all the riches which hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children’s. Now then, whatsoever hath said unto thee, do.’
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Then rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels;
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and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to his father unto the land of .
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- 19 Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep. And stole the teraphim that were her father’s.
- 20 And outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled.
- 21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the River, and set his toward the mountain of .
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And it was told Laban on the third day that was fled.
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And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and he overtook him in the mountain of .
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And came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night, and said unto him: ‘Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to either good or bad.’
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Genesis 20:3 Genesis 24:50 Genesis 31:29 Genesis 31:42 2 Samuel 13:22 Numbers 24:13 Matthew 2:12 Numbers 22:26 Numbers 22:20 Matthew 27:19 Psalm 105:14-15 Genesis 28:5 Job 33:25 Genesis 41:1 Genesis 40:5 Deuteronomy 26:5 Hosea 12:12 1 Kings 3:5 Numbers 12:6 Matthew 1:20 Job 33:15-17 Isaiah 37:29 Genesis 31:10 -
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And Laban came up with . Now had pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountain of .
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- 26 And Laban said to : ‘What hast thou done, that thou hast outwitted me, and carried away my daughters as though captives of the sword?
- 27 Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and outwit me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp;
- 28 and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly.
- 29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt; but the of your father spoke unto me yesternight, saying: Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to either good or bad.
- 30 And now that thou art surely gone, because thou sore longest after thy father’s house, wherefore hast thou stolen my Elohims?’
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And answered and said to Laban: ‘Because I was afraid; for I said: Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from me by force.
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- 32 With whomsoever thou findest thy Elohims, he shall not live; before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee.’—For knew not that had stolen them.—
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And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he found them not. And he went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
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Now had taken the teraphim, and put them in the saddle of the camel, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not.
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- 35 And she said to her father: ‘Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me.’ And he searched, but found not the teraphim.
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And was wroth, and strove with Laban. And answered and said to Laban: ‘What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me?
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- 37 Whereas thou hast felt about all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us two.
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These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten.
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That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bore the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
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Thus I was: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
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These twenty years have I been in thy house: I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
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- 42 Except the of my father, the of , and the Fear of , had been on my side, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave judgment yesternight.’
- 43 And Laban answered and said unto : ‘The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine; and what can I do this day for these my daughters, or for their children whom they have borne?
- 44 And now come, let us make a , I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.’
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And took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
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- 46 And said unto his brethren: ‘Gather stones’; and they took stones, and made a heap. And they did eat there by the heap.
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And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha; but called it Galeed.
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And Laban said: ‘This heap is witness between me and thee this day.’ Therefore was the of it called Galeed;
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and Mizpah, for he said: ‘The watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
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- 50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives beside my daughters, no man being with us; see, is witness betwixt me and thee.’
- 51 And Laban said to : ‘Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set up betwixt me and thee.
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This heap be witness, and the pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
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- 53 The of , and the of Nahor, the of their father, judge betwixt us.’ And swore by the Fear of his father .
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And offered a in the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread; and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mountain.
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- 55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. And Laban departed, and returned unto his place.