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Genesis 31:5-15 Modern English Version (MEV)

5. and said to them, “I see your father’s demeanor, that it is not congenial toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

6. You know that with all my strength I have served your father.

7. Your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

8. If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock produced speckled. If he said, ‘The striped will be your pay,’ then all the flock produced striped.

9. In this way God has taken away your father’s flock and given them to me.

10. “When the livestock conceived, I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were striped, speckled, and spotted.

11. The angel of God spoke to me in a dream, saying, ‘Jacob.’ And I said, ‘Here I am.’

12. He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes and see all the male goats which mate with the flock are striped, speckled, and spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.

13. I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar, where you vowed a vow to Me. Now arise, and get out of this land, and return to the land of your family.’ ”

14. Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there any portion or inheritance left for us in our father’s house?

15. Are we not seen by him as foreigners? For he has sold us and has completely spent our money also.

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