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Genesis 31 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:1 - And Jacob heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and of our father's property has he gotten all this glory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:2 - And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and behold it was not toward him as [fn]before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:3 - And the Lord said to Jacob, Return to the land of thy father, and to thy family, and I will be with thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:4 - And Jacob sent and called Lea and Rachel to the plain where the flocks were.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:5 - And he said to them, I see the face of your father, that it is not toward me as before, but the God of my father was with me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:6 - And ye too know that with all my might I have served your father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:7 - But your father deceived me, and changed my wages for the ten lambs, yet God gave him not power to hurt me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:8 - If he should say thus, The speckled shall be thy reward, then all the cattle would bear speckled; and if he should say, The white shall be thy reward, then would all the cattle bear white.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:9 - So God has taken away all the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:10 - And it came to pass when the cattle conceived and were with young, that I beheld with mine eyes in sleep, and behold the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-coloured spots.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:11 - And the angel of God said to me [fn]in a dream, Jacob; and I said, What is it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - And he said, Look up with thine eyes, and behold the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-coloured spots; for I have seen all things that Laban does to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 - I am God that appeared to thee in the place of God, where thou anointedst a pillar to me, and vowedst to me there a vow; now then arise and depart out of this land, depart into the land of thy nativity, and I will be with thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:14 - And Rachel and Lea answered and said to him, Have we yet a part or inheritance in the house of our father?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:15 - Are we not considered strangers by him? for he has sold us, and quite devoured our money.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:16 - All the wealth and the glory which God has taken from our father, it shall be our's and our children's; now then do whatsoever God has said to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:17 - And Jacob arose and took his wives and his children up on the camels;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:18 - and he took away all his possessions and all his store, which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and all that belonged to him, to depart to Isaac his father in the land of Chanaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father's images.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:20 - And Jacob hid the matter from Laban the Syrian, so as not to tell him that he ran away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:21 - And he departed himself and all that belonged to him, and passed over the river, and went into the mountain Galaad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:22 - But it was told Laban the Syrian on the third day, that Jacob was fled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:23 - And having taken his brethren with him, he pursued after him seven days' journey, and overtook him on Mount Galaad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:24 - And God came to Laban the Syrian in sleep by night, and said to him, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not at any time to Jacob evil things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:25 - And Laban overtook Jacob; and Jacob pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban stationed his brothers in the mount Galaad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:26 - And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done? wherefore didst thou run away secretly, and pillage me, and lead away my daughters as captives taken with the sword?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:27 - Whereas if thou hadst told me, I would have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, and timbrels, and harp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:28 - And I was not counted worthy to embrace my children and my daughters; now then thou hast wrought foolishly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:29 - And now my hand has power to hurt thee; but the God of thy father spoke to me yesterday, saying, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not evil words to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:30 - Now then go on thy way, for thou hast earnestly desired to depart to the house of thy father; wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:31 - And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid; for I said, Lest at any time thou shouldest take away thy daughters from me, and all my possessions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:32 - And Jacob said, With whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, he shall not live in the presence of our brethren; take notice of what I have of thy property, and take it; and he observed nothing with him, but Jacob knew not that his wife Rachel had stolen them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - And Laban went in and searched in the house of Lea, and found them not; and he went out of the house of Lea, and searched in the house of Jacob, and in the house of the two maid-servants, and found them not; and he went also into the house of Rachel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - And Rachel took the idols, and cast them among the camels' packs, and sat upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - And she said to her father, Be not indignant, Sir; I cannot rise up before thee, for it is with me according to the manner of women. Laban searched in all the house, and found not the images.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:36 - And Jacob was angry, and strove with Laban; and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my injustice, and what my sin, that thou hast pursued after me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:37 - and that thou hast searched all the furniture of my house? what hast thou found of all the furniture of thine house? set it here between thy relations and my relations, and let them decide between us two.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:38 - These twenty years have I been with thee; thy sheep, and thy she-goats have not failed in bearing; I devoured not the rams of thy cattle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:39 - That which was taken of beasts I brought not to thee; I made good of myself the thefts of the day, and the thefts of the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:40 - I was parched with heat by day, and chilled with frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41 - These twenty years have I been in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years among thy sheep, and thou didst falsely rate my wages for ten lambs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:42 - Unless I had the God of my father Abraam, and the fear of Isaac, now thou wouldest have sent me away empty; God saw my humiliation, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:43 - And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the cattle are my cattle, and all things which thou seest are mine, and the property of my daughters; what shall I do to them to-day, or their children which they bore?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:44 - Now then come, let me make a covenant, both I and thou, and it shall be for a witness between me and thee; and he said to him, Behold, there is no one with us; behold, God is witness between me and thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:45 - And Jacob having taken a stone, set it up for a pillar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:46 - And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they gathered stones and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap; and Laban said to him, This heap witnesses between me and thee to-day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:47 - And Laban called it, the Heap of Testimony; and Jacob called it, the Witness Heap.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:48 - And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and the pillar, which I have set between me and thee; this heap witnesses, and this pillar witnesses; therefore its name was called, the Heap witnesses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:49 - And the vision of which he said—Let God look to it between me and thee, because we are about to depart from each other,—

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:50 - If thou shalt humble my daughters, if thou shouldest take wives in addition to my daughters, see, there is no one with us looking on. God is witness between me and thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:52 - For if I should not cross over unto thee, neither shouldest thou cross over to me, for mischief beyond this heap and this pillar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:53 - The God of Abraam and the God of Nachor judge between us; and Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:54 - And he offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren, and they ate and drank, and slept in the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:55 - (LXX 32:1) And Laban rose up in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban having turned back, departed to his place.
BES Footnotes
Gr. yesterday and the day before. Hebraism.
Lit. in sleep.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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