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Genesis 31:22-55 (AMP)

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²² But on the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled. ²³ So he took his kinsmen with him and pursued after for seven days, and they overtook him in the hill country of Gilead. ²⁴ But God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night and said to him, Be careful that you do not speak from good to bad to Jacob . ²⁵ Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent on the hill, and Laban coming with his kinsmen pitched on the same hill of Gilead. ²⁶ And Laban said to Jacob, What do you mean stealing away and leaving like this without my knowing it, and carrying off my daughters as if captives of the sword? ²⁷ Why did you flee secretly and cheat me and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with joy and gladness and with singing, with tambourine and lyre? ²⁸ And why did you not permit me to kiss my sons and my daughters good-bye? Now you have done foolishly . ²⁹ It is in my power to do you harm; but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Be careful that you do not speak from good to bad to Jacob . ³⁰ And now you felt you must go because you were homesick for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods? ³¹ Jacob answered Laban, Because I was afraid; for I thought, Suppose you would take your daughters from me by force. ³² The one with whom you find those gods of yours, let him not live. Here before our kinsmen take whatever you find that belongs to you. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen . ³³ So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and the tent of the two maids, but he did not find them. Then he went from Leah's tent into Rachel's tent. ³⁴ Now Rachel had taken the images (gods) and put them in the camel's saddle and sat on them. Laban searched and felt through all the tent, but did not find them. ³⁵ And said to her father, Do not be displeased, my lord, that I cannot rise up before you, for the period of women is upon me and I am unwell. And he searched, but did not find the gods. ³⁶ Then Jacob became angry and reproached and argued with Laban. And Jacob said to Laban, What is my fault? What is my sin, that you so hotly pursued me? ³⁷ Although you have searched and felt through all my household possessions, what have you found of all your household goods? Put it here before my brethren and yours, that they may judge and decide between us. ³⁸ These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your she-goats have not lost their young, and the rams of your flock have not been eaten by me. ³⁹ I did not bring you torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss of it; you required of me all that was stolen, whether it occurred by day or by night. ⁴⁰ This was ; by day the heat consumed me and by night the cold, and I could not sleep. ⁴¹ I have been twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks; and you have changed my wages ten times. ⁴² And if the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Dread and Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely you would have sent me away now empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and humiliation and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night. ⁴³ Laban answered Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, these children are my children, these flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do today to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne? ⁴⁴ So come now, let us make a covenant or league, you and I, and let it be for a witness between you and me. ⁴⁵ So Jacob set up a stone for a pillar or monument. ⁴⁶ And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there upon the heap. ⁴⁷ Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha , but Jacob called it Galeed ⁴⁸ Laban said, This heap is a witness today between you and me. Therefore it was named Galeed. ⁴⁹ And Mizpah , for he said, May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent and hidden one from another. ⁵⁰ If you should afflict, humiliate, or lower my daughters, or if you should take other wives beside my daughters, although no man is with us , see (remember), God is witness between you and me. ⁵¹ And Laban said to Jacob, See this heap and this pillar, which I have set up between you and me. ⁵² This heap is a witness and this pillar is a witness, that I will not pass by this heap to you, and that you will not pass by this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. ⁵³ The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, and the god of their father , judge between us. But Jacob swore by the Dread and Fear of his father Isaac. ⁵⁴ Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his brethren to eat food; and they ate food and lingered all night on the mountain. ⁵⁵ And early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and pronounced a blessing on them. Then Laban departed and returned to his home.


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 42) Thankfulness - Jacob - God answered him in distress

This passage relates to the following question(s):
(v. 53) Should we take oaths? Jacob took an oath in the name of God

Definition(s):
Abraham (Ab-ra-ham): father of a great multitude
Abraham (Ehb-ra-ham): father of a great multitude
Galeed (Gal-e-ed): the heap of witness
Jacob (Jeh-kobb): that supplants, undermines; the heel
Jegar-sahadutha (Je-gar-sa-ha-doo-tha): heap of witness
Laban (Leh-ban): white; shining; gentle; brittle
Mizpah (Miz-pa): Mizpeh, a watch-tower; speculation
Rachel (Reh-tchel): sheep
Put (Poot):
So (Soh):