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Jacob Negotiates His Departure from Laban
Genesis 30:25-36
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And it cometh to pass, when Rachel hath borne Joseph, that Jacob saith unto Laban, `Send me away, and I go unto my place, and to my land;
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give up my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and I go; for thou--thou hast known my service which I have served thee.'
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And Laban saith unto him, `If, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes--I have observed diligently that Jehovah doth bless me for thy sake.'
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He saith also, `Define thy hire to me, and I give.'
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And he saith unto him, `Thou--thou hast known that which I have served thee in , and that which thy substance was with me;
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for it is little which thou hast had at my appearance, and it breaketh forth into a multitude, and Jehovah blesseth thee at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for mine own house?'
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And he saith, `What do I give to thee?' And Jacob saith, `Thou dost not give me anything; if thou do for me this thing, I turn back; I have delight; thy flock I watch;
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I pass through all thy flock to-day to turn aside from thence every sheep speckled and spotted, and every brown sheep among the lambs, and speckled and spotted among the goats--and it hath been my hire;
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and my righteousness hath answered for me in the day to come, when it cometh in for my hire before thy face; --every one which is not speckled and spotted among my goats, and brown among my lambs--it is stolen with me.'
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And Laban saith, `Lo, O that it were according to thy word;'
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and he turneth aside during that day the ring-streaked and the spotted he-goats, and all the speckled and the spotted she-goats, every one that hath white in it, and every brown one among the lambs, and he giveth into the hand of his sons,
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and setteth a journey of three days between himself and Jacob; and Jacob is feeding the rest of the flock of Laban.
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