“and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.