Genesis 31
1 And he heard [the] words of [the] sons of Laban saying he has taken Jacob all that [belonged] to father our and from [that] which [belonged] to father our he has acquired all the abundance this.
Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”
2 And he saw Jacob [the] face of Laban and there! not [was] he with him as yesterday three days ago.
Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
3 And he said Yahweh to Jacob return to [the] land of fathers your and to kindred your so I may be with you.
The LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
4 And he sent Jacob and he summoned Rachel and Leah the field to flock his.
Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
5 And he said to them [am] seeing I [the] face of father your that not [is] he to me as yesterday three days ago and [the] God of father my he has been with me.
and said to them, “I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.
6 And you you know that with all strength my I have served father your.
You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
7 And father your he has deceived me and he has changed wage[s] my ten times and not he has permitted him God to do harm with me.
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
8 If thus he said speckled [ones] it will be wage[s] your and they bore all the flock speckled [ones] and if thus he said striped [ones] it will be wage[s] your and they bore all the flock striped [ones].
If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.
9 And he has taken away God [the] livestock of father your and he has given [it] to me.
Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.
10 And it was at [the] time mated the flock and I lifted up eyes my and I saw in a dream and there! the male goats which were going up on the flock [were] striped speckled and mottled.
During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
11 And he said to me [the] angel of God in a dream O Jacob and I said here [am] I.
The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’
12 And he said lift up please eyes your and see all the male goats which are going up on the flock [are] striped speckled and mottled for I have seen all that Laban [is] doing to you.
He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
13 I [am] the God of Beth-el where you anointed there a pillar where you vowed to me there a vow now arise go out from the land this and return to [the] land of kindred your.
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”
14 And she answered Rachel and Leah and they said to him ¿ still [belong] to us [does] a share and an inheritance in [the] household of father our.
Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
15 ¿ Not foreigners are we accounted by him for he has sold us and he has consumed also continuously money our.
Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.
16 For all the wealth which he has taken away God from father our [belongs] to us it and to children our and therefore all that he has said God to you do.
For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”
17 And he arose Jacob and he lifted up children his and wives his on camels.
Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,
18 And he drove all livestock his and all possession[s] his which he had accumulated [the] livestock of acquisition his which he had accumulated in Paddan Aram to go to Isaac father his [the] land of towards Canaan.
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.
19 And Laban he had gone to shear sheep his and she stole Rachel the teraphim which [belonged] to father her.
Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.
20 And he stole Jacob [the] heart of Laban the Aramean on not he told to him that [was] fleeing he.
Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
21 And he fled he and all that [belonged] to him and he arose and he passed over the river and he set face his [the] hill country of Gilead.
So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
22 And it was told to Laban on the day third that he had fled Jacob.
Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
23 And he took relatives his with him and he pursued after him a journey of seven days and he overtook him in [the] hill country of Gilead.
He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
24 And he came God to Laban the Aramean in [the] dream of the night and he said to him take heed to yourself lest you should speak with Jacob from good unto bad.
God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
25 And he overtook Laban Jacob and Jacob he had pitched tent his in the hill country and Laban he pitched tent with relatives his in [the] hill country of Gilead.
Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.
26 And he said Laban to Jacob what? have you done and you have stolen heart my and you have led away daughters my like captives of [the] sword.
Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
27 Why? did you hide yourself to flee and did you steal? me and not did you tell? to me and I sent away you with gladness and with songs with tambourine and with harp.
Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
28 And not did you allow? me to kiss sons my and daughters my now you have behaved foolishly to do.
and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.
29 There [is] to [the] power of hand my to do with you harm and [the] God of father your last night - he said to me saying take heed to yourself from speaking with Jacob from good unto bad.
It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’
30 And now certainly you have gone for certainly you longed for [the] household of father your why? did you steal gods my.
Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”
31 And he answered Jacob and he said to Laban that I was afraid for I said lest you should tear away daughters your from with me.
Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’
32 With [anyone] whom you will find gods your not he will live before relatives our investigate for yourself what? [is] with me and take [it] for yourself and not he knew Jacob that Rachel she had stolen them.
Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.
33 And he went Laban in [the] tent of Jacob - and in [the] tent of Leah and in [the] tent of [the] two the maidservants and not he found [them] and he came out from [the] tent of Leah and he went in [the] tent of Rachel.
Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
34 And Rachel she had taken the teraphim and she had put them in [the] saddlebag of the camel and she sat on them and he searched Laban all the tent and not he found [them].
Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them.
35 And she said to father her may not it burn in [the] eyes of lord my that not I am able to rise from before you for [the] way of women [belongs] to me and he searched and not he found the teraphim.
She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.
36 And it burned to Jacob and he quarreled with Laban and he answered Jacob and he said to Laban what? [is] transgression my what? [is] sin my that you have hotly pursued after me.
Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?
37 That you have searched all things my what? did you find of all [the] things of household your put [it] thus before relatives my and relatives your so they may decide between [the] two of us.
Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
38 This twenty year[s] I [have been] with you ewes your and female goats your not they have miscarried and [the] rams of flock your not I have eaten.
“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.
39 A torn animal not I brought to you I I bore [the] loss of it from hand my you sought it [one] stolen of day and [one] stolen of night.
That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
40 I was in the day it consumed me heat and frost in the night and it fled sleep my from eyes my.
This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
41 This [belonged] to me twenty year[s] in household your I served you four-teen year[s] for [the] two daughters your and six years for flock[s] your and you changed wage[s] my ten times.
These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
42 If not [the] God of father my [the] God of Abraham and [the] fear of Isaac he had been to me for now empty you sent away me affliction my and ([the] toil of *Lb) hands my he has seen God and he decided last night.
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
43 And he answered Laban and he said to Jacob the daughters [are] daughters my and the children [are] children my and the flock [is] flock my and all that you [are] seeing [belongs] to me it and for daughters my what? will I do for these this day or for children their whom they have borne.
Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine! What can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
44 And therefore come! let us make a covenant I and you and it will become a witness between me and between you.
Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”
45 And he took Jacob a stone and he raised up it a pillar.
Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
46 And he said Jacob to relatives his gather stones and they took stones and they made a heap and they ate there at the heap.
Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
47 And he called it Laban Jegar Sahadutha and Jacob he called it Galeed.
Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
48 And he said Laban the heap this [is] a witness between me and between you this day there-fore (he called *Lb) name its Galeed.
Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed
49 And Mizpah that he said may he keep watch Yahweh between me and between you for we will be hidden each from neighbor his.
and Mizpah, for he said, “The LORD watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
50 If you will mistreat daughters my and if you will take wives to daughters my there not [is] anyone with us see God [is] a witness between me and between you.
If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”
51 And he said Laban to Jacob here! - the heap this and here! the pillar which I have set up between me and between you.
Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.
52 [is] a witness The heap this and [is] a witness the pillar if I not I will pass beyond to you the heap this and if you not you will pass beyond to me the heap this and the pillar this for harm.
May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
53 [the] God of Abraham and [the] God of Nahor may they judge between us [the] God of father their and he swore Jacob by [the] fear of father his Isaac.
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.
54 And he sacrificed Jacob a sacrifice in the hill country and he invited relatives his to eat food and they ate food and they stayed [the] night in the hill country.
Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.
55 And he rose early Laban in the morning and he kissed sons his and daughters his and he blessed them and he went and he returned Laban to own place his.
Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.
