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Genesis 31:37

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

After searching through everything I have, did you find anything of yours? If so, put it here, where your relatives and mine can see it. Then we can decide what to do.

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If you find that any one of us has taken your idols, I'll have that person killed. Let your relatives be witnesses. Show me what belongs to you, and you can take it back.” Jacob did not realize that Rachel had stolen the household idols.

Jacob became very angry and said to Laban: What have I done wrong? Have I committed some crime? Is that why you hunted me down?

In all the twenty years that I've worked for you, not one of your sheep or goats has had a miscarriage, and I've never eaten even one of your rams.

But if that one refuses to listen, take along one or two others. The Scriptures teach that every complaint must be proved true by two or more witnesses.

Both you and God are witnesses that we were pure and honest and innocent in our dealings with you followers of the Lord.

Pray for us. Our consciences are clear, and we always try to live right.

They brought them back and put them in front of the sacred chest, so Joshua and the rest of the Israelites could see them.

Always let others see you behaving properly, even though they may still accuse you of doing wrong. Then on the day of judgment, they will honour God by telling the good things they saw you do.

Give a kind and respectful answer and keep your conscience clear. This way you will make people ashamed for saying bad things about your good conduct as a follower of Christ.




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