Verse 40
Genesis 31:40
World English Bible, British Edition
40
This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the
frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הָיִ֧יתִי בַ/יּ֛וֹם אֲכָלַ֥/נִי חֹ֖רֶב וְ/קֶ֣רַח בַּ/לָּ֑יְלָה וַ/תִּדַּ֥ד שְׁנָתִ֖/י מֵֽ/עֵינָֽ/י
English Translation
I was in the day when I ate sword and frost by night, and my sleep turned away from my eyes.
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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...
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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...
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