Quotes About Conflict

But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my sonís mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your sonís mandrakes.”

Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Labanís flocks.

Now Jacob heard that Labanís sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our fatherís expense.”

And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.

Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her fatherís household idols.

Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.

On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.

So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.

Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!

“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.

So Laban went into Jacobís tent, then Leahís tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leahís tent and entered Rachelís tent.

Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.

Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?

You have searched all my goods! Have you found anything that belongs to you? Put it here before my brothers and yours, that they may judge between the two of us.

But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?

Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”

In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.

He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.

When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacobís hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.

Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.

But Jacob himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.