Genesis 31:4

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So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.

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  • Gen 31:2-3
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    2When Jacob saw the look on Laban’s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.

    3The LORD said to Jacob,“Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.”

  • Gen 29:9-13
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    9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.

    10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

    11Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly.

    12When Jacob explained to Rachel that he was a relative of her father and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father.

    13When Laban heard this news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he rushed out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban how he was related to him.

  • Gen 31:32-34
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    32Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it.”(Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)

    33So Laban entered Jacob’s tent, and Leah’s tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.

    34(Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel’s saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.

  • 14Then Rachel and Leah replied to him,“Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

  • 6“Is he well?” Jacob asked. They replied,“He is well. Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”

  • 1Jacob Meets Esau Jacob looked up and saw that Esau was coming along with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants.

  • Gen 29:16-17
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    16(Now Laban had two daughters; the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel.

    17Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.)

  • Gen 31:25-26
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    25Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.

    26“What have you done?” Laban demanded of Jacob.“You’ve deceived me and carried away my daughters as if they were captives of war!

  • 5There he said to them,“I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.

  • 25The Flocks of Jacob After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban,“Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.

  • Gen 31:10-12
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    10“Once during breeding season I saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

    11In the dream the angel of God said to me,‘Jacob!’‘Here I am!’ I replied.

    12Then he said,‘Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.

  • Gen 31:17-19
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    17So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels.

    18He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.

    19While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

  • Gen 32:3-4
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    3Jacob sent messengers on ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region of Edom.

    4He commanded them,“This is what you must say to my lord Esau:‘This is what your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now.

  • 40Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban’s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban’s flocks.

  • 55(32:1) Early in the morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters goodbye and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home.

  • 2Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

  • 7Then Leah came forward with her children and they bowed down. Finally Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed down.

  • 42But if the animals were weaker, he did not set the branches there. So the weaker animals ended up belonging to Laban and the stronger animals to Jacob.

  • 4Jacob asked them,“My brothers, where are you from?” They replied,“We’re from Haran.”

  • 25In the morning Jacob discovered it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban,“What in the world have you done to me! Didn’t I work for you in exchange for Rachel? Why have you tricked me?”

  • 4So Rachel gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob slept with her.

  • 22So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a feast.

  • 29They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,

  • 23So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

  • 47Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.