Verse 36
Genesis 31:36
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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And jacob being angry, said in a chiding manner: For what fault of mine, and for what offense on my part hast thou so hotly pursued me,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּ֥חַר לְ/יַעֲקֹ֖ב וַ/יָּ֣רֶב בְּ/לָבָ֑ן וַ/יַּ֤עַן יַעֲקֹב֙ וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר לְ/לָבָ֔ן מַה פִּשְׁעִ/י֙ מַ֣ה חַטָּאתִ֔/י כִּ֥י דָלַ֖קְתָּ אַחֲרָֽ/י
English Translation
And Jacob was angry and contended with Laban, and Jacob answered and said to Laban, "What is my transgression? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?"
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Chapter 31 Context
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But after that he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was o...
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And perceiving also that Laban's countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day,
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Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I wi...
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He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks,
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And said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day:...
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And you know that I have served your father to the utmost of my power.
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Yea, your father also hath overreached me, and hath changes my wages ten times: and yet God (Elohim)...
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If at any time he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but w...
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And God (Elohim) hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me.
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For after that time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep that the m...
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And the angel of God (Elohim) said to me in my sleep: Jacob? And I answered: Here I am.
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And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers co...
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I am the God (Elohim) of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now theref...
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And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we anything left among the goods and inheritance of our father's h...
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Hath he not counted us as strangers and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?
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But God (Elohim) hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wher...
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Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.
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And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went for...
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At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.
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And Jacob would not confess to his father in law that he was flying away.
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And when he was gone, together with all that belonged to him, and having passed the river, was going...
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It was told Laban on the third day that Jacob fled.
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And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount o...
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And he saw in a dream God (Elohim) saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against...
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Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he with his brethren had overtaken him, he...
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And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters, as...
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Why wouldst thou run away privately and not acquaint me, that I might have brought thee on the way w...
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Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters: thou hast done foolishly: and now, indeed,
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It is in my power to return thee evil: but the God (Elohim) of your father said to me yesterday: Tak...
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Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father's house: why ha...
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Jacob answered: That I departed unknown to thee, it was for fear lest thou wouldst take away thy dau...
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But whereas thou chargest me with theft: with whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, let him be slain...
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So Laban went into the tent of Jacob, and of Lia, and of both the handmaids, and found them not. And...
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She in haste hid the idols under the camel's furniture, and sat upon them: and when he had searched...
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She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to...
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And jacob being angry, said in a chiding manner: For what fault of mine, and for what offense on my...
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And searched all my household stuff? What hast thou found of all the substance of thy house? lay it...
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Have I therefore been with thee twenty years? thy ewes and goats were not barren, the rams of thy fl...
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Neither did I show thee that which the beast had torn, I made good all the damage: whatsoever was lo...
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Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep departed from my eyes.
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And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six...
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Unless the God (Elohim) of my father Abraham, and the fear of Isaac had stood by me, peradventure no...
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Laban answered him: The daughters are mine and the children, and thy flocks, and all things that tho...
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Come therefore, let us enter into a league: that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.
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And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title:
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And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they gathering stones together, made a heap, a...
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And Laban called it The witness heap: and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to...
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And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name th...
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The Lord behold and judge between us when we shall be gone one from the other.
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If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our spe...
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And he said again to Jacob: Behold, this heap, and the stone which I have set up between me and thee...
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Shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for a testimony, if either I shall pass...
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The God (Elohim) of Abraham, and the God (Elohim) of Nachor, the God (Elohim) of their father, judge...
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And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread. And when t...
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But laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons, and daughters, and blessed them: and returned to...
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Verse Information
- Book
- Genesis
- Chapter
- Chapter 31 (55 verses)
- Version
- Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition