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Genesis 31:3
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Jacob Flees from Laban

1 Now Jacob heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has acquired all this awealth.”  
2 And Jacob saw the acountenance of Laban, and indeed it was not bfavorable toward him as before.  
3 Then the Lord said to Jacob, a“Return to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will bbe with you.”  
4 So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flock,
5 and said to them, a“I see your father’s countenance, that it is not favorable toward me as before; but the God of my father bhas been with me.  
6 And ayou know that with all my might I have served your father.  
7 Yet your father has deceived me and achanged my wages bten times, but God cdid not allow him to hurt me.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Genesis 31:3

And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return - and I will be with thee - I will take the same care of thee in thy return, as I took of thee on thy way to this place. The Targum reads, My Word shall be for thy help, see Genesis 15:1. A promise of this kind was essentially necessary for the encouragement of Jacob, especially at this time; and no doubt it was a powerful means of support to him through the whole journey; and it was particularly so when he heard that his brother was coming to meet him, with four hundred men in his retinue, Genesis 32:6. At that time he went and pleaded the very words of this promise with God, Genesis 32:9.


 
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