Genesis 31
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Genesis 31:33-42

33So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two slave women, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent. 34Now Rachel had taken the 1household idols and put them in the camel’s saddlebag, and she sat on them. So Laban searched through all the tent, but did not find them. 35And she said to her father, “May my lord not be angry that I cannot 2stand in your presence, because the 3way of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the 45household idols.

36Then Jacob became angry and argued with Laban; and Jacob said to Laban, “What is my offense? What is my sin that you have hotly pursued me? 37Though you have searched through all my property, what have you found of all your household property? Set it here in front of my relatives and your relatives, so that they may decide between the two of us. 38For these twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks. 39I did not even bring to you that which was torn by wild animals; I took the loss myself. You demanded it of my hand whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40This is how I was: by day the 6heat consumed me and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes. 41For these twenty years I have been in your house; 7I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you 8changed my wages ten times. 42If 9the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. 10God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, so He 11rendered judgment last night.”

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 31:34 Heb teraphim ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 31:35 Lev 19:32 ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 31:35 I.e., menstruation ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 31:35 Heb teraphim ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 31:35 Gen 31:19 ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 31:40 Or drought ↩
  7. 7. Genesis 31:41 Gen 29:27, 30 ↩
  8. 8. Genesis 31:41 Gen 31:7 ↩
  9. 9. Genesis 31:42 Gen 31:5, 29, 53 ↩
  10. 10. Genesis 31:42 Gen 29:32; Ex 3:7 ↩
  11. 11. Genesis 31:42 Gen 31:24, 29 ↩

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