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Genesis 31:11-29 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

11. And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob? And I answered: Here I am.

12. And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers colors, spotted, and speckled. For I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee.

13. I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country.

14. And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we anything left among the goods and inheritance of our father's house?

15. Hath he not counted us as strangers and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?

16. But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore do all that God hath commanded thee.

17. Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.

18. And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac his father to the land of Chanaan.

19. At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.

20. And Jacob would not confess to his father in law that he was flying away.

21. And when he was gone, together with all that belonged to him, and having passed the river, was going on towards mount Galaad,

22. It was told Laban on the third day that Jacob fled.

23. And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.

24. And he saw in a dream God saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.

25. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he with his brethren had overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same mount of Galaad.

26. And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters, as captives taken with the sword.

27. Why wouldst thou run away privately and not acquaint me, that I might have brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with timbrels, and with harps?

28. Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters: thou hast done foolishly: and now, indeed,

29. It is in my power to return thee evil: but the God of your father said to me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any things harshly against Jacob.

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