Holy Scripture
Genesis 31:3
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“Do you see the good man's great meekness, on the one hand, and their ingratitude, on the other, and how they could not bear to hold their envy in check but even affected their father's attitude? See now God's ineffable care and the degree of considerateness he employs when he sees us doing our best. I mean, when he sa…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3And the Lord said to Jacob, Return to the land of thy father, and to thy family, and I will be with thee.
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1And Jacob heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and of our father’s property has he gotten all this glory.
2And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and behold it was not toward him as before.
— Genesis 31:3 —
4And Jacob sent and called Leah and Rachel to the plain where the flocks were.
5And he said to them, I see the face of your father, that it is not toward me as before, but the God of my father was with me.