16 Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
Genesis 31:16
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Genesis 31:8–10
8 If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore streaked offspring. 9 Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me. 10 When…
Tobit 4:20–21
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1 Esdras 8:15–17
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Genesis 31:42–44
42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.” 43 But Laban answered J…
Genesis 45:19–21
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Genesis 34:22–24
22 But only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us and be one people: if all our men are circumcised as they are. 23 Will not their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell among…
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