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.” 17 Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels, 18 and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.
Genesis 31:16–18
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