Lexham English Bible

Genesis 31:12-22 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

12. And he said, ‘Lift up your eyes and see—all the rams mounting the flock are streaked, speckled, and dappled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

13. I am the God of Bethel where you anointed a stone pillar, where you made a vow to me. Now get up, go out from this land and return to the land of your birth.’ ”

14. Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, “Is there yet a portion for us, and an inheritance in the house of our father?

15. Are we not regarded as foreigners by him, because he has sold us and completely consumed our money?

16. For all the wealth that God has taken away from our father, it belongs to us and to our sons. So now, all that God has said to you, do.”

17. Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on the camels.

18. And he drove all his livestock and his possessions that he had acquired, the livestock of his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, in order to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

19. Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father.

20. And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he intended to flee.

21. Then he fled with all that he had, and arose and crossed the Euphrates and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

22. And on the third day it was told to Laban that Jacob had fled.