Verse 4
Genesis 31:4
Literal Standard Version
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And Jacob sends and calls for Rachel and for Leah to the field to his flock;
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֣ח יַעֲקֹ֔ב וַ/יִּקְרָ֖א לְ/רָחֵ֣ל וּ/לְ/לֵאָ֑ה הַ/שָּׂדֶ֖ה אֶל צֹאנֽ/וֹ
English Translation
And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock.
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Chapter 31 Context
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And he hears the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken all that our father has; indeed, fr...
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and Jacob sees the face of Laban, and behold, it is not with him as before.
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And YHWH says to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your family, and I am with you.”
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And Jacob sends and calls for Rachel and for Leah to the field to his flock;
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and says to them, “I am beholding your father’s face—that it is not toward me as before, and the God...
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and you have known that with all my power I have served your father,
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and your father has played on me, and has changed my hire ten times; and God (Elohim) has not permit...
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If he says thus: The speckled are your hire, then all the flock bore speckled ones; and if he says t...
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and God (Elohim) takes away the substance of your father, and gives to me.
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And it comes to pass at the time of the flock conceiving, that I lift up my eyes and see in a dream,...
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and the Messenger of God (Elohim) says to me in the dream, Jacob, and I say, Here I am.
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And He says, Now lift up your eyes and see that all the male goats which are going up on the flock a...
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I am the God (Elohim) of Bethel where you have anointed a standing pillar, where you have vowed a vo...
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And Rachel answers—Leah also—and says to him, “Have we yet a portion and inheritance in the house of...
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Have we not been reckoned strangers to him? For he has sold us, and he also utterly consumes our mon...
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for all the wealth which God (Elohim) has taken away from our father, it is ours, and our children’s...
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And Jacob rises, and lifts up his sons and his wives on the camels,
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and leads all his livestock, and all his substance which he has acquired, the livestock of his getti...
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And Laban has gone to shear his flock, and Rachel steals the teraphim which her father has;
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and Jacob deceives the heart of Laban the Aramean, because he has not declared to him that he is fle...
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and he flees, he and all that he has, and rises, and passes over the River, and sets his face toward...
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And it is told to Laban on the third day that Jacob has fled,
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and he takes his brothers with him, and pursues after him a journey of seven days, and overtakes him...
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And God (Elohim) comes to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night and says to him, “Take heed to y...
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And Laban overtakes Jacob; and Jacob has fixed his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brothers...
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And Laban says to Jacob, “What have you done that you deceive my heart, and lead away my daughters a...
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Why have you hidden yourself to flee, and deceive me, and have not declared to me, and I send you aw...
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and have not permitted me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have acted foolishly in doing so...
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my hand is to God (Elohim) to do evil with you, but the God (Elohim) of your father last night has s...
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And now, you have certainly gone, because you have been very desirous for the house of your father;...
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And Jacob answers and says to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, Lest you violently take away...
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with whomsoever you find your gods—he must not live; before our brothers discern for yourself what i...
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And Laban goes into the tent of Jacob, and into the tent of Leah, and into the tent of the two handm...
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And Rachel has taken the teraphim, and puts them in the furniture of the camel, and sits on them; an...
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and she says to her father, “Let it not be displeasing in the eyes of my lord that I am not able to...
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And it is displeasing to Jacob, and he strives with Laban; and Jacob answers and says to Laban, “Wha...
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For you have felt all my vessels: what have you found of all the vessels of your house? Set here bef...
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These twenty years I am with you: your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and the rams...
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the torn I have not brought to you—I repay it—from my hand you seek it; I have been deceived by day,...
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I have been thus: drought has consumed me in the day, and frost by night, and my sleep wanders from...
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This is to me twenty years in your house: I have served you fourteen years for your two daughters, a...
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unless the God (Elohim) of my father, the God (Elohim) of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been f...
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And Laban answers and says to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the...
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And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and you, and it has been for a witness between me and you.”
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And Jacob takes a stone, and lifts it up for a standing pillar;
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and Jacob says to his brothers, “Gather stones,” and they take stones, and make a heap; and they eat...
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and Laban calls it Jegar-Sahadutha; and Jacob has called it Galeed.
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And Laban says, “This heap is witness between me and you today”; therefore has he called its name Ga...
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Mizpah also, for he said, “YHWH watches between me and you, for we are hidden from one another;
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if you afflict my daughters, or take wives beside my daughters—there is no man with us—see, God (Elo...
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And Laban says to Jacob, “Behold, this heap, and behold, the standing pillar which I have cast betwe...
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this heap is witness, and the standing pillar is witness, that I do not pass over this heap to you,...
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the God (Elohim) of Abraham and the God (Elohim) of Nahor, judges between us—the God (Elohim) of the...
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And Jacob sacrifices a sacrifice on the mountain, and calls to his brothers to eat bread, and they e...
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and Laban rises early in the morning, and kisses his sons and his daughters, and blesses them; and L...
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