Genesis 25:31
31Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright now.”Genesis 27:33-36
33Then Isaac trembled very violently and said, “Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed.” 34As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, ahe cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!” 35But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing.” 36Esau said, b“Is he not rightly named Jacob? ▼▼ Jacob means He takes by the heel, or He cheats
For he has cheated me these two times. dHe took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?” Genesis 31:24
24But God came to Laban the Aramean ein a dream by night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, feither good or bad.”Genesis 31:36-55
36Then Jacob became angry and berated Laban. Jacob said to Laban, “What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me? 37For you have felt through all my goods; what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and gyour kinsmen, that they may decide between us two. 38These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks. 39What was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you. I bore the loss of it myself. hFrom my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40There I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes. 41These twenty years I have been in your house. iI served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and jyou have changed my wages ten times. 42 kIf the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the lFear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. mGod saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and nrebuked you last night.”43Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day for these my daughters or for their children whom they have borne? 44Come now, olet us make a covenant, you and I. pAnd let it be a witness between you and me.” 45So Jacob qtook a stone and set it up as a pillar. 46And Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap. 47Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, ▼
▼Aramaic the heap of witness
but Jacob called it Galeed. ▼▼Hebrew the heap of witness
48Laban said, t“This heap is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore he named it Galeed, 49 uand Mizpah, ▼▼ Mizpah means watchpost
for he said, “The Lord watch between you and me, when we are out of one another’s sight. 50If you oppress my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us, see, wGod is witness between you and me.” 51Then Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap and the pillar, which I have set between you and me. 52 xThis heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, to do harm. 53The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the yFear of his father Isaac, 54and Jacob offered a sacrifice in the hill country and called zhis kinsmen to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night in the hill country.
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▼Ch 32:1 in Hebrew
Early in the morning Laban arose and kissed abhis grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned home. Genesis 33:4
4 acBut Esau ran to meet him and embraced him adand fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.1 Samuel 26:25
25Then Saul said to David, “Blessed be you, my son David! You will do many things and will aesucceed in them.” So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.Proverbs 16:7
7When a man’s ways please the Lord,afhe makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
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