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[1] 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] Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. [3] Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.” [4] Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock, [5] 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] You know that I have served your father with all of my strength. [7] Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me. [8] 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] Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me. [10] 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] The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’ [12] 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 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] Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house? [15] Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money. [16] 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] Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels, [18] 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] Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphimⓘ that were her father’s. [20] Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away. [21] 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] Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled. [23] He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead. [24] 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] 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] 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 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 didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly. [29] 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] Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?” [31] Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’ [32] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] “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] 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] This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes. [41] 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] 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] 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] Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.” [45] Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. [46] Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap. [47] Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,ⓘ but Jacob called it Galeed.ⓘ [48] Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed [49] and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another. [50] 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] Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you. [52] 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, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac. [54] 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] Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.

Footnotes

  1. ⓘ 31:19 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.
  2. ⓘ 31:47a “Jegar Sahadutha” means “Witness Heap” in Aramaic.
  3. ⓘ 31:47b “Galeed” means “Witness Heap” in Hebrew.
King James Version
[1] And he heard H8085 (QalImpf) the words H1697 of Laban’s H3837 sons, H1121 saying, H559 (QalInf) Jacob H3290 hath taken away H3947 (QalPerf) all that was our father’s; H1 and of that which was our father’s H1 hath he gotten H6213 (QalPerf) all this glory. H3519 [2] And Jacob H3290 beheld H7200 (QalImpf) the countenance H6440 of Laban, H3837 and, behold, it was not toward him as H8543 before. H8032§ [3] And the Lord H3068 said H559 (QalImpf) unto Jacob, H3290 Return H7725 (QalImpv) unto the land H776 of thy fathers, H1 and to thy kindred; H4138 and I will be with thee. [4] And Jacob H3290 sent H7971 (QalImpf) and called H7121 (QalImpf) Rachel H7354 and Leah H3812 to the field H7704 unto his flock, H6629 [5] and said H559 (QalImpf) unto them, I see H7200 (QalActPtc) your father’s H1 countenance, H6440 that it is not toward me as H8543 before; H8032 but the God H430 of my father H1 hath been H1961 (QalPerf) with me. [6] And ye H859 know H3045 (QalPerf) that with all my power H3581 I have served H5647 (QalPerf) your father. H1 [7] And your father H1 hath deceived H2048 (PielPerf) me, and changed H2498 (HiphPerf) my wages H4909 ten H6235 times; H4489 but God H430 suffered him H5414 (QalPerf) not to hurt H7489 (HiphInf) me. H5978 [8] If he said H559 (QalImpf) thus, The speckled H5348 shall be thy wages; H7939 then all the cattle H6629 bare H3205 (QalPerf) speckled: H5348 and if he said H559 (QalImpf) thus, The ringstraked H6124 shall be thy hire; H7939 then bare H3205 (QalPerf) all the cattle H6629 ringstraked. H6124 [9] Thus God H430 hath taken away H5337 (HiphImpf) the cattle H4735 of your father, H1 and given H5414 (QalImpf) them to me. [10] And it came to pass at the time H6256 that the cattle H6629 conceived, H3179 (PielInf) that I lifted up H5375 (QalImpf) mine eyes, H5869 and saw H7200 (QalImpf) in a dream, H2472 and, behold, the rams H6260§ which leaped H5927 (QalActPtc) upon the cattle H6629 were ringstraked, H6124 speckled, H5348 and grisled. H1261 [11] And the angel H4397 of God H430 spake H559 (QalImpf) unto me in a dream, H2472 saying, Jacob: H3290 And I said, H559 (QalImpf) Here am I. [12] And he said, H559 (QalImpf) Lift up H5375 (QalImpv) now thine eyes, H5869 and see, H7200 (QalImpv) all the rams H6260 which leap H5927 (QalActPtc) upon the cattle H6629 are ringstraked, H6124 speckled, H5348 and grisled: H1261 for I have seen H7200 (QalPerf) all that Laban H3837 doeth H6213 (QalActPtc) unto thee. [13] I am the God H410 of Beth-el, H1008 where thou anointedst H4886 (QalPerf) the pillar, H4676 and where thou vowedst H5087 (QalPerf) a vow H5088 unto me: now arise, H6965 (QalImpv) get thee out H3318 (QalImpv) from this land, H776 and return H7725 (QalImpv) unto the land H776 of thy kindred. H4138 [14] And Rachel H7354 and Leah H3812 answered H6030 (QalImpf) and said H559 (QalImpf) unto him, Is there yet any portion H2506 or inheritance H5159 for us in our father’s H1 house? H1004 [15] Are we not counted H2803 (NiphPerf) of him strangers? H5237 for he hath sold H4376 (QalPerf) us, and hath quite H398 (QalInf) devoured H398 (QalImpf) also our money. H3701 [16] For all the riches H6239 which God H430 hath taken H5337 (HiphPerf) from our father, H1 that is our’s, and our children’s: H1121 now then, whatsoever God H430 hath said H559 (QalPerf) unto thee, do. H6213 (QalImpv) [17] Then Jacob H3290 rose up, H6965 (QalImpf) and set H5375 (QalImpf) his sons H1121 and his wives H802 upon camels; H1581 [18] and he carried away H5090 (QalImpf) all his cattle, H4735 and all his goods H7399 which he had gotten, H7408 (QalPerf) the cattle H4735 of his getting, H7075 which he had gotten H7408 (QalPerf) in Padan-aram, H6307 for to go H935 (QalInf) to Isaac H3327 his father H1 in the land H776 of Canaan. H3667 [19] And Laban H3837 went H1980 (QalPerf) to shear H1494 (QalInf) his sheep: H6629 and Rachel H7354 had stolen H1589 (QalImpf) the images H8655§ that were her father’s. H1 [20] And Jacob H3290 stole away H1589 (QalImpf) unawares H3820 to Laban H3837§ the Syrian, H761 in that H5921 he told H5046 (HiphPerf) him not H1097 that he fled. H1272 (QalActPtc) [21] So he fled H1272 (QalImpf) with all that he had; and he rose up, H6965 (QalImpf) and passed over H5674 (QalImpf) the river, H5104 and set H7760 (QalImpf) his face H6440 toward the mount H2022 Gilead. H1568 [22] And it was told H5046 (HophImpf) Laban H3837 on the third H7992 day H3117 that Jacob H3290 was fled. H1272 (QalPerf) [23] And he took H3947 (QalImpf) his brethren H251 with him, and pursued H7291 (QalImpf) after him H310 seven H7651 days’ H3117 journey; H1870 and they overtook H1692 (HiphImpf) him in the mount H2022 Gilead. H1568 [24] And God H430 came H935 (QalImpf) to Laban H3837 the Syrian H761 in a dream H2472 by night, H3915 and said H559 (QalImpf) unto him, Take heed H8104 (NiphImpv) that thou speak H1696 (PielImpf) not to H5973 Jacob H3290 either good H2896 or H5704 bad. H7451§ [25] Then Laban H3837 overtook H5381 (HiphImpf) Jacob. H3290 Now Jacob H3290 had pitched H8628 (QalPerf) his tent H168 in the mount: H2022 and Laban H3837 with his brethren H251 pitched H8628 (QalPerf) in the mount H2022 of Gilead. H1568 [26] And Laban H3837 said H559 (QalImpf) to Jacob, H3290 What hast thou done, H6213 (QalPerf) that thou hast stolen away H1589 (QalImpf) unawares H3824 to me, and carried away H5090 (PielImpf) my daughters, H1323 as captives H7617 (QalPasPtc) taken with the sword? H2719 [27] Wherefore didst thou flee away H1272 (QalInf) secretly, H2244 (NiphPerf) and steal away H1589 (QalImpf) from me;§ and didst not tell H5046 (HiphPerf) me, that I might have sent thee away H7971 (PielImpf) with mirth, H8057 and with songs, H7892 with tabret, H8596 and with harp? H3658 [28] And hast not suffered H5203 (QalPerf) me to kiss H5401 (PielInf) my sons H1121 and my daughters? H1323 thou hast now done foolishly H5528 (HiphPerf) in so doing. H6213 (QalInf) [29] It is H3426 in the power H410 of my hand H3027 to do H6213 (QalInf) you hurt: H7451 but the God H430 of your father H1 spake H559 (QalPerf) unto me yesternight, H570 saying, H559 (QalInf) Take thou heed H8104 (NiphImpv) that thou speak not H1696 (PielInf) to Jacob H3290 either good H2896 or bad. H7451 [30] And now, though thou wouldest needs H1980 (QalInf) be gone, H1980 (QalPerf) because thou sore H3700 (NiphInf) longedst H3700 (NiphPerf) after thy father’s H1 house, H1004 yet wherefore hast thou stolen H1589 (QalPerf) my gods? H430 [31] And Jacob H3290 answered H6030 (QalImpf) and said H559 (QalImpf) to Laban, H3837 Because I was afraid: H3372 (QalPerf) for I said, H559 (QalPerf) Peradventure H6435 thou wouldest take by force H1497 (QalImpf) thy daughters H1323 from me. [32] With whomsoever H834 thou findest H4672 (QalImpf) thy gods, H430 let him not live: H2421 (QalImpf) before H5048 our brethren H251 discern H5234 (HiphImpv) thou what is thine with me, and take H3947 (QalImpv) it to thee. For Jacob H3290 knew H3045 (QalPerf) not that Rachel H7354 had stolen H1589 (QalPerf) them. [33] And Laban H3837 went H935 (QalImpf) into Jacob’s H3290 tent, H168 and into Leah’s H3812 tent, H168 and into the two H8147 maidservants’ H519 tents; H168 but he found H4672 (QalPerf) them not. Then went he out H3318 (QalImpf) of Leah’s H3812 tent, H168 and entered H935 (QalImpf) into Rachel’s H7354 tent. H168 [34] Now Rachel H7354 had taken H3947 (QalPerf) the images, H8655 and put H7760 (QalImpf) them in the camel’s H1581 furniture, H3733 and sat H3427 (QalImpf) upon them. And Laban H3837 searched H4959 (PielImpf)§ all the tent, H168 but found H4672 (QalPerf) them not. [35] And she said H559 (QalImpf) to her father, H1 Let it not displease H2734 (QalImpf) my lord H113 that I cannot H3201 (QalImpf) rise up H6965 (QalInf) before thee; H6440 for the custom H1870 of women H802 is upon me. And he searched, H2664 (PielImpf) but found H4672 (QalPerf) not the images. H8655 [36] And Jacob H3290 was wroth, H2734 (QalImpf) and chode H7378 (QalImpf) with Laban: H3837 and Jacob H3290 answered H6030 (QalImpf) and said H559 (QalImpf) to Laban, H3837 What is my trespass? H6588 what is my sin, H2403 that thou hast so hotly pursued H1814 (QalPerf) after me? H310 [37] Whereas H3588 thou hast searched H4959 (PielPerf)§ all my stuff, H3627 what hast thou found H4672 (QalPerf) of all thy household H1004 stuff? H3627 set H7760 (QalImpv) it here H3541 before my brethren H251 and thy brethren, H251 that they may judge H3198 (HiphImpf) betwixt H996 us both. H8147 [38] This twenty H6242 years H8141 have I been with thee; thy ewes H7353 and thy she goats H5795 have not cast their young, H7921 (PielPerf) and the rams H352 of thy flock H6629 have I not eaten. H398 (QalPerf) [39] That which was torn H2966 of beasts I brought H935 (HiphPerf) not unto thee; I bare the loss H2398 (PielImpf) of it; of my hand H3027 didst thou require H1245 (PielImpf) it, whether stolen H1589 (QalPasPtc) by day, H3117 or stolen H1589 (QalPasPtc) by night. H3915 [40] Thus I was; in the day H3117 the drought H2721 consumed H398 (QalPerf) me, and the frost H7140 by night; H3915 and my sleep H8142 departed H5074 (QalImpf) from mine eyes. H5869 [41] Thus have I been twenty H6242 years H8141 in thy house; H1004 I served thee H5647 (QalPerf) fourteen H702 years H8141 for thy two H8147 daughters, H1323 and six H8337 years H8141 for thy cattle: H6629 and thou hast changed H2498 (HiphImpf) my wages H4909 ten H6235 times. H4489 [42] Except H3884 the God H430 of my father, H1 the God H430 of Abraham, H85 and the fear H6343 of Isaac, H3327 had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away H7971 (PielPerf) now empty. H7387 God H430 hath seen H7200 (QalPerf) mine affliction H6040 and the labour H3018 of my hands, H3709 and rebuked H3198 (HiphImpf) thee yesternight. H570 [43] And Laban H3837 answered H6030 (QalImpf) and said H559 (QalImpf) unto Jacob, H3290 These daughters H1323 are my daughters, H1323 and these children H1121 are my children, H1121 and these cattle H6629 are my cattle, H6629 and all that thou seest H7200 (QalActPtc) is mine: and what can I do H6213 (QalImpf) this day H3117 unto these my daughters, H1323 or H176 unto their children H1121 which they have born? H3205 (QalPerf) [44] Now therefore come thou, H3212 (QalImpv) let us make H3772 (QalImpf) a covenant, H1285 I and thou; and let it be for a witness H5707 between me and thee. [45] And Jacob H3290 took H3947 (QalImpf) a stone, H68 and set it up H7311 (HiphImpf) for a pillar. H4676 [46] And Jacob H3290 said H559 (QalImpf) unto his brethren, H251 Gather H3950 (QalImpv) stones; H68 and they took H3947 (QalImpf) stones, H68 and made H6213 (QalImpf) an heap: H1530 and they did eat H398 (QalImpf) there upon the heap. H1530 [47] And Laban H3837 called H7121 (QalImpf) it Jegar-sahadutha: H3026ⓘ but Jacob H3290 called H7121 (QalPerf) it Galeed. H1567 [48] And Laban H3837 said, H559 (QalImpf) This heap H1530 is a witness H5707 between me and thee this day. H3117 Therefore was the name H8034 of it called H7121 (QalPerf) Galeed; H1567 [49] and Mizpah; H4709ⓘ for H834 he said, H559 (QalPerf) The Lord H3068 watch H6822 (QalImpf) between me and thee, when we are absent H5641 (NiphImpf) one H376 from another. H7453 [50] If thou shalt afflict H6031 (PielImpf) my daughters, H1323 or if thou shalt take H3947 (QalImpf) other wives H802 beside H5921 my daughters, H1323 no man H376 is with us; see, H7200 (QalImpv) God H430 is witness H5707 betwixt me and thee. [51] And Laban H3837 said H559 (QalImpf) to Jacob, H3290 Behold this heap, H1530 and behold this pillar, H4676 which I have cast H3384 (QalPerf) betwixt me and thee; [52] this heap H1530 be witness, H5707 and this pillar H4676 be witness, H5713 that I will not pass over H5674 (QalImpf) this heap H1530 to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over H5674 (QalImpf) this heap H1530 and this pillar H4676 unto me, for harm. H7451 [53] The God H430 of Abraham, H85 and the God H430 of Nahor, H5152 the God H430 of their father, H1 judge H8199 (QalImpf) betwixt us. And Jacob H3290 sware H7650 (NiphImpf) by the fear H6343 of his father H1 Isaac. H3327 [54] Then Jacob H3290 offered H2076 (QalImpf) sacrifice H2077§ upon the mount, H2022 and called H7121 (QalImpf) his brethren H251 to eat H398 (QalInf) bread: H3899 and they did eat H398 (QalImpf) bread, H3899 and tarried all night H3885 (QalImpf) in the mount. H2022 [55] And early H7925 in the morning H1242 Laban H3837 rose up, H7925 (HiphImpf) and kissed H5401 (PielImpf) his sons H1121 and his daughters, H1323 and blessed H1288 (PielImpf) them: and Laban H3837 departed, H3212 (QalImpf) and returned H7725 (QalImpf) unto his place. H4725

Footnotes

  1. § 31:2 Heb. as yesterday and the day before
  2. § 31:10 Or, he goats
  3. § 31:19 Heb. teraphim
  4. § 31:20 Heb. the heart of Laban
  5. § 31:24 Heb. from good to bad
  6. § 31:27 Heb. hast stolen me
  7. § 31:34 Heb. felt
  8. § 31:37 Heb. felt
  9. ⓘ 31:47 that is, The heap of witness
  10. ⓘ 31:49 that is, A beacon, or, watchtower
  11. § 31:54 Or, killed beasts
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