Verse 37
Genesis 31:37
New Living Translation
37
You have rummaged through everything I own. Now show me what you found that belongs to you! Set it out here in front of us, before our relatives, for all to see. Let them judge between us!
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּֽי מִשַּׁ֣שְׁתָּ אֶת כָּל כֵּלַ֗/י מַה מָּצָ֨אתָ֙ מִ/כֹּ֣ל כְּלֵי בֵיתֶ֔/ךָ שִׂ֣ים כֹּ֔ה נֶ֥גֶד אַחַ֖/י וְ/אַחֶ֑י/ךָ וְ/יוֹכִ֖יחוּ בֵּ֥ין שְׁנֵֽי/נוּ
English Translation
For when you have searched all your vessels, what have you found of all the vessels of your house? Set so against me and against your brothers, and let them testify between us.
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Chapter 31 Context
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But Jacob soon learned that Laban’s sons were grumbling about him. “Jacob has robbed our father of e...
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And Jacob began to notice a change in Laban’s attitude toward him.
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Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your father and grandfather and to your relative...
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So Jacob called Rachel and Leah out to the field where he was watching his flock.
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He said to them, “I have noticed that your father’s attitude toward me has changed. But the God (Elo...
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You know how hard I have worked for your father,
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but he has cheated me, changing my wages ten times. But God (Elohim) has not allowed him to do me an...
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For if he said, ‘The speckled animals will be your wages,’ the whole flock began to produce speckled...
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In this way, God (Elohim) has taken your father’s animals and given them to me.
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“One time during the mating season, I had a dream and saw that the male goats mating with the female...
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Then in my dream, the angel of God (Elohim) said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Yes, here I am.’
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“The angel said, ‘Look up, and you will see that only the streaked, speckled, and spotted males are...
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I am the God (Elohim) who appeared to you at Bethel, the place where you anointed the pillar of ston...
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Rachel and Leah responded, “That’s fine with us! We won’t inherit any of our father’s wealth anyway.
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He has reduced our rights to those of foreign women. And after he sold us, he wasted the money you p...
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All the wealth God (Elohim) has given you from our father legally belongs to us and our children. So...
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So Jacob put his wives and children on camels,
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and he drove all his livestock in front of him. He packed all the belongings he had acquired in Padd...
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At the time they left, Laban was some distance away, shearing his sheep. Rachel stole her father’s h...
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Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, for they set out secretly and never told Laban they were leaving.
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So Jacob took all his possessions with him and crossed the Euphrates River, heading for the hill cou...
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Three days later, Laban was told that Jacob had fled.
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So he gathered a group of his relatives and set out in hot pursuit. He caught up with Jacob seven da...
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But the previous night God (Elohim) had appeared to Laban the Aramean in a dream and told him, “I’m...
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Laban caught up with Jacob as he was camped in the hill country of Gilead, and he set up his camp no...
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“What do you mean by deceiving me like this?” Laban demanded. “How dare you drag my daughters away l...
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Why did you slip away secretly? Why did you deceive me? And why didn’t you say you wanted to leave?...
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Why didn’t you let me kiss my daughters and grandchildren and tell them good-bye? You have acted ver...
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I could destroy you, but the God (Elohim) of your father appeared to me last night and warned me, ‘L...
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I can understand your feeling that you must go, and your intense longing for your father’s home. But...
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31
“I rushed away because I was afraid,” Jacob answered. “I thought you would take your daughters from...
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32
But as for your gods, see if you can find them, and let the person who has taken them die! And if yo...
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Laban went first into Jacob’s tent to search there, then into Leah’s, and then the tents of the two...
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But Rachel had taken the household idols and hidden them in her camel saddle, and now she was sittin...
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she said to her father, “Please, sir, forgive me if I don’t get up for you. I’m having my monthly pe...
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Then Jacob became very angry, and he challenged Laban. “What’s my crime?” he demanded. “What have I...
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You have rummaged through everything I own. Now show me what you found that belongs to you! Set it o...
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“For twenty years I have been with you, caring for your flocks. In all that time your sheep and goat...
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If any were attacked and killed by wild animals, I never showed you the carcass and asked you to red...
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“I worked for you through the scorching heat of the day and through cold and sleepless nights.
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Yes, for twenty years I slaved in your house! I worked for fourteen years earning your two daughters...
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In fact, if the God (Elohim) of my father had not been on my side — the God (Elohim) of Abraham and...
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43
Then Laban replied to Jacob, “These women are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, and...
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So come, let’s make a covenant, you and I, and it will be a witness to our commitment.”
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So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a monument.
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Then he told his family members, “Gather some stones.” So they gathered stones and piled them in a h...
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To commemorate the event, Laban called the place Jegar-sahadutha (which means “witness pile” in Aram...
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Then Laban declared, “This pile of stones will stand as a witness to remind us of the covenant we ha...
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But it was also called Mizpah (which means “watchtower”), for Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch b...
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If you mistreat my daughters or if you marry other wives, God (Elohim) will see it even if no one el...
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“See this pile of stones,” Laban continued, “and see this monument I have set between us.
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They stand between us as witnesses of our vows. I will never pass this pile of stones to harm you, a...
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I call on the God (Elohim) of our ancestors — the God (Elohim) of your grandfather Abraham and the G...
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Then Jacob offered a sacrifice to God (Elohim) there on the mountain and invited everyone to a coven...
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Laban got up early the next morning, and he kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed t...
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