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He said, ‘Lift up now your eyes and see that all the male goats which are mating are striped, speckled, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

Are we not counted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us and has also entirely consumed our purchase price.

So now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house; but why did you steal my gods?"

The one with whom you find your gods shall not live; in the presence of our relatives recognize what is yours among my belongings and take it for yourself." But Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

And she said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is upon me." So he searched but did not find the household idols.

These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the dread of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered the decision last night."

and Mizpah, for he said, "May Yahweh watch between you and me when we are absent one from the other.

This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass by this heap to you for harm, and you will not pass by this heap and this pillar to me for harm.

I am unworthy of all the lovingkindness and of all the truth which You have shown to Your slave; for with my staff only I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me down with the mothers and the children.

For You said, ‘I will surely prosper you and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered.'"

So he spent the night there. Then he took from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau:

and you shall say, ‘Behold, your servant Jacob also is behind us.'" For he said, "I will appease his face with the present that goes before me. Then afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will lift up my face."

Then he said, "Let me go, for the dawn is breaking." But he said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."

Then He said, "Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed."

So Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said, "I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been delivered."

And Jacob said, "No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then take my present from my hand, for I see your face as one sees the face of God, and you have received me favorably.

But Jacob journeyed to Succoth and built for himself a house and made booths for his livestock; therefore the place is named Succoth.

Then he bought a portion of a field where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred qesitah.