1. Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father, and he has produced all this wealth from our father’s property.”
2. Jacob perceived, too, that Laban’s attitude toward him was not what it had previously been.
3. Then the Lord said to Jacob: Return to the land of your ancestors, where you were born, and I will be with you.
4. So Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to meet him in the field where his flock was.
5. There he said to them: “I have noticed that your father’s attitude toward me is not as it was in the past; but the God of my father has been with me.
6. You know well that with all my strength I served your father;