Genesis 31:5
Good News Translation
He said to them, "I have noticed that your father is not as friendly toward me as he used to be; but my father's God has been with me.

New Revised Standard Version
and said to them, “I see that your father does not regard me as favorably as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me.

Contemporary English Version
and he told them: Your father isn't as friendly with me as he used to be, but the God my ancestors worshiped has been on my side.

New American Bible
There he said to them: “I have noticed that your father’s attitude toward me is not as it was in the past; but the God of my father has been with me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me.

I see.

Genesis 31:2,3 And perceiving also, that Laban's countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day. . . .

the God.

Genesis 31:3,13,42,53 Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee. . . .

Genesis 32:9 And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: O Lord who saidst to me, Return to thy land, and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee.

Genesis 48:15 And Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph, and said: God, in whose sight my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, God that feedeth me from my youth until this day:

Genesis 50:17 That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practised against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept.

Context
Jacob Flees from Laban
4He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks, 5And said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me.6And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power.…
Cross References
Hebrews 13:5
Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee.

Genesis 21:22
At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army, said to Abraham: God is with thee in all that thou dost.

Genesis 28:13
And the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: The land, wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed.

Genesis 28:15
And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all that I have said.

Genesis 31:2
And perceiving also, that Laban's countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day.

Genesis 31:4
He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks,

Genesis 31:29
It is in my power to return thee evil; but the God of your father said to me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.

Genesis 31:42
Unless the God of my father, Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had stood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.

Isaiah 41:10
Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God: I have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of my just one hath upheld thee.

Genesis 31:4
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