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Genesis 31:6-18 Darby Translation 1890 (DARBY)

6. And you know that with all my power I have served your father.

7. And your father has mocked me, and has changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

8. If he said thus; The speckled shall be thy hire, then all the flocks bore speckled; and if he said thus: The ringstraked shall be thy hire, then all the flocks bore ringstraked.

9. And God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

10. And it came to pass at the time of the ardour of the flocks, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams that leaped upon the flocks were ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

11. And the Angel of God said to me in a dream, Jacob! And I said, Here am I.

12. And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see: all the rams that leap upon the flock are ringstraked, speckled, and spotted; for I have seen all that Laban does to thee.

13. I am the ·God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, where thou vowedst a vow to me. Now arise, depart out of this land, and return to the land of thy kindred.

14. And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

15. Are we not reckoned of him strangers? for he has sold us, and has even constantly devoured our money.

16. For all the wealth that God has taken from our father is ours and our children's; and now whatever God has said to thee do.

17. And Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels,

18. and carried away all his cattle, and all his property that he had acquired--the cattle of his possessions that he had acquired in Padan-Aram, to go to Isaac his father, into the land of Canaan.

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