Genesis 31:27

Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

Genesis 31:28

and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.

Genesis 31:29

It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Take heed to yourself that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

Genesis 31:30

Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

Genesis 31:31

Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’

Genesis 31:32

Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.

Genesis 31:33

Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.

Genesis 31:34

Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn’t find them.

Genesis 31:35

She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.

Genesis 31:36

Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?

Genesis 31:37

Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.

Genesis 31:38

“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.

Genesis 31:39

That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

Genesis 31:40

This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 31:41

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 have changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 31:42

Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”

Genesis 31:43

Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

Genesis 31:44

Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you.”

Genesis 31:45

Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

Genesis 31:46

Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

Genesis 31:47

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

Genesis 31:48

Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you this day.” Therefore it was named Galeed

Genesis 31:49

and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

Genesis 31:50

If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”

Genesis 31:51

Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

Genesis 31:52

May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

Genesis 31:53

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.

Genesis 31:54

Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.

Genesis 31:55

Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.

Genesis 32:1

Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

Genesis 32:2

When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

Genesis 32:3

Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

Genesis 32:4

He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.

Genesis 32:5

I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’”

Genesis 32:6

The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him.”

Genesis 32:7

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

Genesis 32:8

and he said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”

Genesis 32:9

Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’

Genesis 32:10

I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

Genesis 32:11

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.

Genesis 32:12

You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can’t be numbered because there are so many.’”

Genesis 32:13

He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:

Genesis 32:14

two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

Genesis 32:15

thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

Genesis 32:16

He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd.”

Genesis 32:17

He commanded the foremost, saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’

Genesis 32:18

Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’”

Genesis 32:19

He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.

Genesis 32:20

You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’” For, he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”

Genesis 32:21

So the present passed over before him, and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

Genesis 32:22

He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.

Genesis 32:23

He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.

Genesis 32:24

Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

Genesis 32:25

When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained, as he wrestled.

Genesis 32:26

The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go, unless you bless me.”

Genesis 32:27

He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob.”

Genesis 32:28

He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

Genesis 32:29

Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” He blessed him there.

Genesis 32:30

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

Genesis 32:31

The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.

Genesis 32:32

Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.

Genesis 33:1

Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.

Genesis 33:2

He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

Genesis 33:3

He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

Genesis 33:4

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

Genesis 33:5

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

Genesis 33:6

Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.

Genesis 33:7

Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

Genesis 33:8

Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”

Genesis 33:9

Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”

Genesis 33:10

Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

Genesis 33:11

Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.

Genesis 33:12

Esau said, “Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you.”

Genesis 33:13

Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

Genesis 33:14

Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.”

Genesis 33:15

Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me.” He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”

Genesis 33:16

So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

Genesis 33:17

Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

Genesis 33:18

Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.

Genesis 33:19

He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.

Genesis 33:20

He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.

Genesis 34:1

Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Genesis 34:2

Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.

Genesis 34:3

His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

Genesis 34:4

Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”

Genesis 34:5

Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.

Genesis 34:6

Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.

Genesis 34:7

The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; a which thing ought not to be done.

Genesis 34:8

Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

Genesis 34:9

Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

Genesis 34:10

You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”

Genesis 34:11

Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.

Genesis 34:12

Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”

Genesis 34:13

The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

Genesis 34:14

and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.

Genesis 34:15

Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

Genesis 34:16

then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

Genesis 34:17

But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”

Genesis 34:18

Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.

Genesis 34:19

The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.