Genesis 31:53-55

The Voice

⁵³May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor (the God of their father Terah) serve as judge between us.

This is no sweet farewell. It is a parting of the ways between two men who don’t trust one another. Both are tricksters, but they are family. It is probably best from now on if they avoid each other completely.

So Jacob swore an oath on the Fear of Isaac, his father; ⁵⁴and Jacob offered a sacrifice on the hill there and called all of his relatives together to eat bread. And they all ate bread and spent the rest of the night in the hill country. ⁵⁵Early the next morning, Laban got up, kissed his grandchildren and his daughters, and blessed them; and then he left and returned home.

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