Genesis 31:1-7
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Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, "Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and from what was our father's he has gained all this wealth."
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And Jacob saw a that Laban did not regard him with favor as before.
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Then the Lord said to Jacob, b "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you."
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So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock was
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and said to them, c "I see that your father does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my father d has been with me.
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e You know that I have served your father with all my strength,
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yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages f ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me.
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Genesis 4:5
But for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.
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Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.'
Genesis 28:15
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.
Genesis 32:9
And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, 'Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good.
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Genesis 31:2
And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before.
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Genesis 31:3
Then the Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.
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Genesis 31:38 - 40
These 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.
Genesis 30:29
Jacob said to him, "You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me.
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Genesis 31:41
These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
Numbers 14:22
None of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice.
Nehemiah 4:12
At that time the Jews who lived near them came from all directions and said to us ten times, "You must return to us.
Job 19:3
These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
Zechariah 8:23
Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'
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