GOD in the Old Testament - Part 17

Genesis 31:4-7

    So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were. He said to them, "I see that your father's attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me. You know that I've worked for your father with all my strength, yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me."

 

Genesis 31:11-13  

"The angel of God said to me in a dream, 'Jacob.' I answered, 'Here I am.' And he said, 'Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled or spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you. I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.' " 

 

Genesis 31:15-16  

"Does he not regard us (Leah and Rachel) as foreigners? Not only has he sold us, but he has used up what was paid for us. Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you." 

 

Genesis 31:24  

Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, "Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad." 

 

Genesis 31:29  

"I (Laban) have the power to harm you; but last night the God of your father said to me, 'Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.' " 

 

Genesis 31:41-42  

"If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you surely would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you."

 

Genesis 31:50  

"If you mistreat my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me." 

 

Genesis 31:53  

"May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." 

    So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.  (see all Genesis 31) 

  

(parentheses are mine) 

 

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