Verse 37
Genesis 31:37
World English Bible, British Edition
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.
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
1
Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that
was our father’s. He has obt...
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2
Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not towards
him as before.
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3
The LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your
relatives, and I will be wi...
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4
Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
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5
and said to them, “I see the expression on your father’s face, that it
is not towards me as before;...
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6
You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
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7
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God (Elohim)
didn’t allow him to hu...
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8
If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore
speckled. If he said, ‘The st...
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9
Thus God (Elohim) has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.
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10
During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and
behold, the male goats which leap...
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11
The angel of God (Elohim) said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here
I am.’
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12
He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which
leap on the flock are streaked...
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13
I am the God (Elohim) of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed
a vow to me. Now arise...
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14
Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance
for us in our father’s house?
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15
Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and
has also used up our money.
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16
For all the riches which God (Elohim) has taken away from our father are ours
and our children’s. No...
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17
Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,
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18
and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he
had gathered, including the liv...
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19
Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.
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20
Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him
that he was running away.
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21
So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River,
and set his face towards the mou...
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22
Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
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23
He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey.
He overtook him in the mountain...
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24
God (Elohim) came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him,
“Be careful that you...
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25
Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in
the mountain, and Laban with his relat...
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26
Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me,
and carried away my daughters l...
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27
Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that
I might have sent you away with...
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28
and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you
done foolishly.
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29
It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God (Elohim) of your father
spoke to me last nigh...
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30
Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s
house, but why have you stole...
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31
Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest
you should take your daughters from m...
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32
Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives,
discern what is yours with me,...
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33
Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the
tent of the two female servants; but he...
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34
Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle,
and sat on them. Laban felt aroun...
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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...
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36
Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban,
“What is my trespass? What is my sin,...
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37
Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found
of all your household stuff? Set...
38
“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your
female goats have not cast their young,...
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39
That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss.
Of my hand you required it,...
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40
This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the
frost by night; and my sleep fled...
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41
These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen
years for your two daughters, an...
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42
Unless the God (Elohim) of my father, the God (Elohim) of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac,
had been w...
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43
Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children
are my children, the flocks are...
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44
Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness
between me and you.”
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45
Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
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46
Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and
made a heap. They ate there by t...
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47
Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
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48
Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore
it was named Galeed
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49
and Mizpah, for he said, “The LORD watch between me and you, when we
are absent one from another.
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50
If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my
daughters, no man is with us; be...
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51
Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have
set between me and you.
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52
May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will
not pass over this heap to you,...
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53
The God (Elohim) of Abraham, and the God (Elohim) of Nahor, the God (Elohim) of their father,
judge...
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54
Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives
to eat bread. They ate bread, an...
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55
Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters,
and blessed them. Laban...
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Verse Information
- Book
- Genesis
- Chapter
- Chapter 31 (55 verses)
- Version
- World English Bible, British Edition