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Genesis 31:12-23 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

12. “And He said, ‘Lift your eyes now and see, all the rams which leap on the flocks are streaked, speckled, and mottled, for I have seen all that Laḇan is doing to you.

13. ‘I am the Ěl of Bĕyth Ěl, where you anointed the standing column and where you made a vow to Me. Now rise up, get out of this land, and return to the land of your relatives.’ ”

14. And Raḥĕl and Lĕ’ah answered and said to him, “Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

15. “Are we not reckoned by him as strangers? For he has sold us, and also entirely consumed our silver.

16. “For all the wealth which Elohim has taken from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, do whatever Elohim has told you.”

17. So Ya‛aqoḇ rose and put his sons and his wives on camels,

18. and he drove off all his livestock and all his possessions which he had acquired, his property of the livestock which he had acquired in Paddan Aram, to go to his father Yitsḥaq in the land of Kena‛an.

19. And when Laḇan had gone to shear his sheep, Raḥĕl stole the house idols that were her father’s.

20. And Ya‛aqoḇ deceived Laḇan the Aramean, because he did not inform him that he was about to flee.

21. And he fled with all that he had. And he rose up and passed over the river, and headed toward the mountains of Gil‛aḏ.

22. And on the third day Laḇan was told that Ya‛aqoḇ had fled.

23. Then he took his brothers with him and pursued him for seven days’ journey, and he overtook him in the mountains of Gil‛aḏ.

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