Genesis 31:38   (Read all of Genesis 31)

"I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

Genesis 31:39   (Read all of Genesis 31)

I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night.

Genesis 31:41   (Read all of Genesis 31)

It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 31:42   (Read all of Genesis 31)

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you."

Genesis 31:43   (Read all of Genesis 31)

Laban answered Jacob, "The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?

Genesis 31:44   (Read all of Genesis 31)

Come now, let's make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us."

Genesis 31:48   (Read all of Genesis 31)

Laban said, "This heap is a witness between you and me today." That is why it was called Galeed.

Genesis 31:49   (Read all of Genesis 31)

It was also called Mizpah, because he said, "May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other.

Genesis 31:50   (Read all of Genesis 31)

If you mistreat my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me."

Genesis 31:51   (Read all of Genesis 31)

Laban also said to Jacob, "Here is this heap, and here is this pillar I have set up between you and me.

Genesis 31:52   (Read all of Genesis 31)

This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this heap to your side to harm you and that you will not go past this heap and pillar to my side to harm me.

Genesis 32:4   (Read all of Genesis 32)

He instructed them: "This is what you are to say to my lord Esau: 'Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now.

Genesis 32:5   (Read all of Genesis 32)

I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, male and female servants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.' "

Genesis 32:6   (Read all of Genesis 32)

When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, "We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him."

Genesis 32:9   (Read all of Genesis 32)

Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, Lord, you who said to me, 'Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,'

Genesis 32:10   (Read all of Genesis 32)

I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

Genesis 32:12   (Read all of Genesis 32)

But you have said, 'I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.' "

Genesis 32:15   (Read all of Genesis 32)

thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

Genesis 32:17   (Read all of Genesis 32)

He instructed the one in the lead: "When my brother Esau meets you and asks, 'Who do you belong to, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you?'

Genesis 32:18   (Read all of Genesis 32)

then you are to say, 'They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.' "

Genesis 32:19   (Read all of Genesis 32)

He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: "You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.

Genesis 32:20   (Read all of Genesis 32)

And be sure to say, 'Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.' " For he thought, "I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me."

Genesis 32:26   (Read all of Genesis 32)

Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."

Genesis 32:27   (Read all of Genesis 32)

The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered.