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  1. Genesis 31:42-49

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    [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 31:42 . . Had not the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, been with me, you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God took notice of my plight and the toil of my hands, and He gave judgment last night.[/B]

    Anyone there that day, who had the slightest conscience at all, must have looked upon Laban as one would look upon the most crooked, and upon the most dishonest, unscrupulous, and unthankful of men ...
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  2. Genesis 31:33-41

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    [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 31:33-35 . . So Laban went into Jacob's tent and Leah's tent and the tents of the two maidservants; but he did not find them. Leaving Leah's tent, he entered Rachel's tent.

    . . . Rachel, meanwhile, had taken the idols and placed them in the camel cushion and sat on them; and Laban rummaged through the tent without finding them. For she said to her father: Let not my lord take it amiss that I cannot rise before you, for the period ...
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  3. Genesis 31:29b-32

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    [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 31:29b . . but the God of your father[/B]

    The "god of your father" is all the same as saying your family's god. There a humorous difference between Jacob's family god and Laban's family gods. Jacob's family god can't be kidnapped and carried around in a saddle bag.

    [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 31:29c . . said to me last night: Beware of attempting anything with Jacob, good or bad.[/B]

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  4. Genesis 31:22-29a

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    [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 31:22 . . On the third day, Laban was told that Jacob had fled.[/B]

    Laban was off some distance from home shearing his sheep, which usually included a festival of some sort. The messengers probably waited till the shearing was done, and the party was over, before laying the bad news on ol' Laban.

    I'd imagine he must have been absolutely livid with rage; and probably got so worked up he actually turned red and began ...
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  5. Genesis 31:14-21

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    [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 31:14-15 . .Then Rachel and Leah replied and said to him: Have we then still a share and an inheritance in our father's house? Are we not considered by him as strangers? For he has sold us and even totally consumed our money![/B]

    Now the truth comes out. All along the girls had resented the calculating, business-like way that their dad sold them into marriage; like they were commodities: not even caring how they might feel about ...
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