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and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.”
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“What shall I give you?” he asked. “Don’t give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them:
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Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban’s flocks.
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yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me.
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Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there too.
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So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he came out of Leah’s tent, he entered Rachel’s tent.
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Now 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.
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It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.
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thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
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Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon.
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But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die.
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For a hundred pieces of silver, he bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent.
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His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.
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Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.
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This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
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Then ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
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And this is what he sent to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other provisions for his journey.
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The men are shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks and herds and everything they own.’
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you should answer, ‘Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”
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The Death of Joseph
Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father’s family. He lived a hundred and ten years
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So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
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Moses and the Burning Bush
Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
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Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household.
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This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Everyone is to gather as much as they need. Take an omer for each person you have in your tent.’”
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(An omer is one-tenth of an ephah.)
