God

Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have learned, by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.

Thou hadst but little before I came to thee, and now thou art become rich: and the Lord hath blessed thee at my coming. It is reasonable, therefore, that I should now provide also for my own house.

Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.

And said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me.

Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.

And God hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me.

And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob. And I answered: Here I am.

And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers colours, spotted and speckled. For I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee.

I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country.

But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded thee.

And he saw in a dream God, saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.

It is in my power to return thee evil; but the God of your father said to me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.

Unless the God of my father, Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had stood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.

The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one from the other.

If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac:

Jacob also went on the journey he had begun: and the angels of God met him.

And when he saw them, he said: These are the camps of God, and he called the name of that place Mahanaim, that is, Camps.

And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: O Lord who saidst to me, Return to thy land, and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee.

I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I return with two companies.

Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly afraid of him; lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the children.

Thou didst say, that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel; for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?

Jacob asked him: Tell me by what name art thou called? He answered: Why dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him in the same place.

And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have seen God face to face, and my soul has been saved.