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And it came to pass when Rachel had borne Yoseph, that Laban went to shear his sheep; for they were distant from him a three days'journey.
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And Ya’aqov saw that Laban was going to shear his sheep, and Ya’aqov called Le’ah and Rachel, and spoke kindly to them that they should come with him to the land of Kena’an.
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For he told them how he had seen everything in a dream, even all that He had spoken to him that he should return to his father's house;
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and they said: "To every place whither you goest we will go with you."
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And Ya’aqov blessed the Elohim of Yitschaq his father, and the Elohim of Avraham his father's father, and he arose and mounted his wives and his children, and took all his possessions and crossed the river, and came to the land of Gilead,
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and Ya’aqov hid his intention from Laban and told him not. And in the seventh year of the fourth week Ya’aqov turned (his face) toward Gilead in the first month, on the twenty-first of it.
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And Laban pursued after him and overtook Ya’aqov in the mountain of Gilead in the third month, on the thirteenth of it.
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And Yahuah did not suffer him to injure Ya’aqov; for He appeared to him in a dream by night.
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And Laban spoke to Ya’aqov, And on the fifteenth of those days Ya’aqov made a feast for Laban, and for all who came with him,
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and Ya’aqov swore to Laban that day, and Laban also to Ya’aqov, that neither should cross the mountain of Gilead to the other with evil purpose.
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And he made there a heap for a witness; therefore the name of that place is called: "The Heap of Witness," after this heap.
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But before they used to call the land of Gilead the land of the Rephaim; for it was the land of the Rephaim,
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and the Rephaim were born (there), giants whose height was ten, nine, eight down to seven cubits.
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And their habitation was from the land of the children of Ammon to Mount Hermon, and the seats of their kingdom were Karnaim and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, and Mîsûr, and Beon.
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And Yahuah destroyed them because of the evil of their deeds; for they were very malignant, and the Emoriym dwelt in their stead, wicked and sinful,
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and there is no people to-day which has done to the full all their sins, and they have no longer length of life on the earth.
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And Ya’aqov sent away Laban, and he departed into Mesopotamia, the land of the East, and Ya’aqov returned to the land of Gilead. And he passed over the Jabbok in the ninth month, on the eleventh of it.
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And on that day Esav, his brother, came to him, and he was reconciled to him, and departed from him to the land of Seir, but Ya’aqov dwelt in tents.
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And in the first year of the fifth week in this jubilee he crossed the Jordan, and dwelt beyond the Jordan, and he pastured his sheep from the sea of the heap to Bethshan, and to Dothan and to the forest of Akrabbim.
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And he sent to his father Yitschaq of all his substance, clothing, and food, and meat, and drink, and milk, and butter, and cheese, and some dates of the valley,
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And to his mother Rebecca also four times a year, between the times of the months, between ploughing and reaping, and between autumn and the rain (season) and between winter and spring,
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to the tower of Avraham. For Yitschaq had returned from the Well of the Oath and gone up to the tower of his father Avraham, and he dwelt there apart from his son Esav.
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For in the days when Ya’aqov went to Mesopotamia, Esav took to himself a wife Mahalath, the daughter of Yishma’el,
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and he gathered together all the flocks of his father and his wives, and went up and dwelt on Mount Seir, and left Yitschaq his father at the Well of the Oath alone.
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And Yitschaq went up from the Well of the Oath and dwelt in the tower of Avraham his father on the mountains of Hebron,
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And thither Ya’aqov sent all that he did send to his father and his mother from time to time, all they needed, and they blessed Ya’aqov with all their heart and with all their soul.