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31:1 Yacob flees from Lavan

31 One day, Yacob overheard the words of Lavan’s sons who were saying, “Yacob has taken everything that belonged to our father, and from what originally belonged to our father he has gained all this wealth.” 2 Then Yacob also noticed that Lavan’s attitude towards him had changed, and he wasn’t in favour of him like he’d been in the past. 3 Then Yahweh told Yacob, “Go back to the land of your ancestors and to your relatives, and I’ll be with you.”

4 So Yacob sent for Rahel and Le’ah to come to him out in the field where he was with his flocks 5 and he told them, “I’ve noticed your father’s attitude and that he’s not positive toward me like he was a few days ago, but my father’s God has been with me. 6 You both know that I’ve served your father with all my strength, 7 but your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times. However, God hasn’t allowed him to harm me. 8 When he told me: ‘The speckled animals will be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore speckled young. But when he told me: ‘The streaked ones will be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore streaked young. 9 In that way, God took your father’s animals away from him and gave them to me.

10 “One day during the season when the flocks were mating, I looked up and saw in a dream that, wow, the male goats that were mounting the flocks were streaked, speckled, and spotted. 11 Then God’s messenger said to me in the dream, ‘Yacob!’ and I said, ‘I’m listening.’ 12 Then he told me, ‘Please look up and observe that all the male goats that are mounting the flocks are streaked, speckled, and spotted, because I have seen everything that Lavan is doing to you. 13 I’m the God of Beyt-el, where you anointed a pillar—where you vowed a vow to me. Now pack up and depart from this land, and return to the land where you were born.’ ”[ref]

14 Then Rahel and Le’ah replied, “Yes, we’re not expecting any portion or inheritance from our father’s property. 15 Doesn’t he just treat us like foreigners now? Yes, he sold us and then he frittered away all the money that should have been ours, 16 so all the wealth that God took from our father belonged to us and to our children anyway. So yes, go ahead and do everything that God’s told you to do.”

17 So Yacob packed up and put his wives and children on the camels. 18 Then he drove all his livestock and all his property that he had acquired—the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan Aram—to go back to Isaac his father in the Canaan region. 19 Now Lavan had gone off for several days to shear his sheep, so Rahel stole the idols that belonged to her father, 20 and Yacob deceived Lavan (the Syrian) by not telling him that they all were leaving. 21 So Yacob took his household and everything that belonged to them and crossed the Euphrates River and headed upward toward the hill-country of Gilead.

31:13: Gen 28:18-22.

31 And_he/it _listened DOM the _words of _the _sons of _Lāⱱān to_say he _has _taken Yaˊₐqoⱱ DOM all that has_father_our and_from_what to_father_our he _has _acquired DOM all the_wealth the_this.
2 And_he/it _saw Yaˊₐqoⱱ DOM the _face of _Lāⱱān and_see/lo/see not_it with_him/it as_before three _days _ago.
3 And_he/it _said YHWH to Yaˊₐqoⱱ return to the _land fathers_your and_to_family_your and_be with_you.
4 And_sent Yaˊₐqoⱱ and_he/it _called to_Rāḩēl and_to_Lēʼāh the_field to his/its_flock _of _sheep/goats.
5 And_he/it _said to_them [am]_seeing I DOM the _face father’s_your _all’s if/because _that not_it to_me as_before three _days _ago and_god father_my he _has _been with_me.
6 And_you _all you _all _know if/because _that in_all strength_my I _have _served DOM father_your _all’s.
7 And_father_your _all’s he _has _deceived in/on/at/with_me and_changed DOM wages_my ten times and_not allowed_him god to_harm with_me.
8 If thus he _said speckled _[ones] it _will _be wages_your and_they _gave _birth all the_flock speckled _[ones] and_if thus he _said striped _[ones] it _will _be wages_your and_they _gave _birth all the_flock striped _[ones].
9 And_taken _away god DOM the _livestock father’s_your _all’s and_given to_me.
10 And_he/it _was in/on/at/with_time was _in _heat the_flock and_lifted _up eyes_my and_saw in/on/at/with_dream and_see/lo/see the_male _goats the_mating on the_flock [were]_striped speckled and_mottled.
11 And_he/it _said to_me the _angel the_ʼElohīm in/on/at/with_dream Oh_Yaˊₐqoⱱ/(Jacob) and_said here_I.
12 And_he/it _said lift _up please eyes_your and_see all the_male _goats the_mating on the_flock [are]_striped speckled and_mottled if/because I _have _seen DOM all that Lāⱱān [is]_doing to_you.
13 I the_god house _of wwww where you _anointed there a _pillar where you _vowed to/for_me there a _vow now arise go _out from the_earth/land the_this and_return to the _land birth_your.
14 And_answered Rāḩēl and_Lēʼāh and_said to_him/it still to/for_us [does]_a _share and_inheritance in_house _of father’s_our.
15 Am_not foreigners are _we _accounted to_him/it if/because sold_us and_using _up also completely _(consume) DOM money_our.
16 If/because all the_wealth which he _has _taken _away god from_father_our to/for_us it and_to_children_our and_now all that he _has _said god to_you do.
17 And_he/it _rose _up Yaˊₐqoⱱ and_put DOM children_his and_DOM wives_his on the_camels.
18 And_drove _away DOM all livestock_his and_DOM all property_his which he _had _accumulated the _livestock possession_his which he _had _accumulated in/on/at/with wwww to_go to Yiʦḩāq/(Isaac) his/its_father towards_land of _Kinaˊan.
19 And_Lāⱱān he _had _gone to_shear DOM his/its_flock _of _sheep/goats and_stole Rāḩēl DOM the_household _gods which belonged _to_father_her.
20 And_tricked Yaˊₐqoⱱ/(Jacob) DOM the _heart of _Lāⱱān the_Aramean on not he _told to_him/it if/because _that [was]_about _to _flee he.
21 And_fled he and_all that to_him/it and_he/it _rose _up and_he/it _passed _through DOM the_river and_he/it _assigned DOM his/its_faces/face the _hill _country the_Gilˊād.

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Isaac’s Travels

Genesis 21-35

Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.

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Yacob flees from Lavan

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