Genesis 31:1-55
1.Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was not what it had been.
2. The Lord said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
3. Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we still have any share in the inheritance of our father’s estate? Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
Rachel had taken the household gods and put them inside her camel’s saddle and was sitting on them. Laban searched through everything in the tent but found nothing.
This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness,that I will not go past this heap to your side to harm you and that you will not go past this heap and pillar to my side to harm me. May the God of Abrahamand the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.”
Why?
Leah and Rachel were entitled to part of the wealth their marriage-gifts brought Laban.
Rachel acts, as she thinks, in Jacob's interest. The possession of household gods could help his claim to the inheritance.
The non-aggression pact made by Laban and Jacob has many contemporary parallels. The covenant meal seals it.
How?
It is time to flee from Laban, more important is the Lord said to Jacob.
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