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Text -- Genesis 31:1-10 (NET)

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Jacob’s Flight from Laban
31:1 Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were complaining, “Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich at our father’s expense!” 31:2 When Jacob saw the look on Laban’s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed. 31:3 The Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.” 31:4 So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were. 31:5 There he said to them, “I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me. 31:6 You know that I’ve worked for your father as hard as I could, 31:7 but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm. 31:8 If he said, ‘The speckled animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to speckled offspring. But if he said, ‘The streaked animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to streaked offspring. 31:9 In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me. 31:10 “Once during breeding season I saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Jacob the second so of a pair of twins born to Isaac and Rebeccaa; ancestor of the 12 tribes of Israel,the nation of Israel,a person, male,son of Isaac; Israel the man and nation
 · Laban son of Bethuel; brother of Rebecca; father of Leah and Rachel; uncle and father-in-law of Jacob,a town in Moab
 · Leah daughter of Laban; wife of Jacob; mother of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun and Dinah
 · Rachel a daughter of Laban; wife of Jacob; mother of Joseph and Benjamin,Jacob's favorite wife


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Jacob | Leah | Ingratitude | Laban | PAPYRUS | PADANARAM | JACOB (1) | Wages | NUMBER | Animals | Face | GLORY | Rachel | Servant | Dream | Envy | Greed | Ten | Master | Contracts | more
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NET Notes: Gen 31:1 Heb “and from that which belonged to our father he has gained all this wealth.”

NET Notes: Gen 31:2 Heb “and Jacob saw the face of Laban, and look, he was not with him as formerly.” Jacob knew from the expression on Laban’s face tha...

NET Notes: Gen 31:3 I will be with you. Though Laban was no longer “with him,” the Lord promised to be.

NET Notes: Gen 31:4 Heb “to his flock.”

NET Notes: Gen 31:5 Heb “I see the face of your father, that he is not toward me as formerly.”

NET Notes: Gen 31:6 Heb “with all my strength.”

NET Notes: Gen 31:7 This rare verb means “to make a fool of” someone. It involves deceiving someone so that their public reputation suffers (see Exod 8:25).

NET Notes: Gen 31:8 Heb “speckled” (twice this verse). The word “animals” (after the first occurrence of “speckled”) and “offspr...

NET Notes: Gen 31:10 Heb “going up on,” that is, mounting for intercourse.

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