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Genesis 31:1-5

We start a new chapter this week with Jacob calling his wives to speak with them. He has spent the better part of twenty years serving their father in order to marry them and deception from Laban occurred in every deal. Yet, God blessed Jacob every time he got the short end of the stick. Laban knows of God's blessings showered on Jacob and his plans to leave with the agreed flocks, but there are rumblings from Laban's other kids.

Jacob heard Laban's sons talking about him and accusing him of stealing flocks from Laban. So God spoke to Jacob saying he would be with him and told him to return to the land of his father.

Next Jacob will be telling his wives the whole story of their agreement for solid and striped sheep and goats. This lesson ends with him telling the ladies how their father does not treat him well as he used to do. Then he confides in them that he is acting at the direction of God.

Today's reading

English

Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, "Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and from what was our father's he has gained all this wealth." And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before. Then the YHVH said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you."

So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock was and said to them, "I see that your father does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me...

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Hebrew

The story continues as Jacob explains cheating to his wives...

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