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Genesis 31:5-19 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

5. and saith to them, `I am beholding your father's face--that it is not towards me as heretofore, and the God of my father hath been with me,

6. and ye--ye have known that with all my power I have served your father,

7. and your father hath played upon me, and hath changed my hire ten times; and God hath not suffered him to do evil with me.

8. `If he say thus: The speckled are thy hire, then bare all the flock speckled ones; and if he say thus: The ring-streaked are thy hire, then bare all the flock ring-streaked;

9. and God taketh away the substance of your father, and doth give to me.

10. `And it cometh to pass at the time of the flock conceiving, that I lift up mine eyes and see in a dream, and lo, the he-goats, which are going up on the flock, [are] ring-streaked, speckled, and grisled;

11. and the messenger of God saith unto me in the dream, Jacob, and I say, Here [am] I.

12. `And He saith, Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and see--all the he-goats which are going up on the flock [are] ring-streaked, speckled, and grisled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to thee;

13. I [am] the God of Bethel where thou hast anointed a standing pillar, where thou hast vowed a vow to me; now, arise, go out from this land, and turn back unto the land of thy birth.'

14. And Rachel answereth--Leah also--and saith to him, `Have we yet a portion and inheritance in the house of our father?

15. have we not been reckoned strangers to him? for he hath sold us, and he also utterly consumeth our money;

16. for all the wealth which God hath taken away from our father, it [is] ours, and our children's; and now, all that God hath said unto thee--do.'

17. And Jacob riseth, and lifteth up his sons and his wives on the camels,

18. and leadeth all his cattle, and all his substance which he hath acquired, the cattle of his getting, which he hath acquired in Padan-Aram, to go unto Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

19. And Laban hath gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stealeth the teraphim which her father hath;

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