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1But after that he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s, and being enriched by his substance is become great:

2And perceiving also that Laban’s countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day,

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

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.

7Yea, your father also hath overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.

8If at any time he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white ones for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones.

9And God hath taken your father’s substance, and given it to me.

10For after that time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep that the males which leaped upon the females were of divers colours, and spotted, and speckled.

11And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob? And I answered: Here I am.

12And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers colours, spotted, and speckled. For I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee.

13I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country.

14And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father’s house?

15Hath he not counted us as strangers and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?

16But God hath taken our father’s riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore do all that God hath commanded thee.

17Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.

18And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac his father to the land of Chanaan.

19At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father’s idols.

20And Jacob would not confess to his father in law that he was flying away.

21And when he was gone, together with all that belonged to him, and having passed the river, was going on towards mount Galaad,

22It was told Laban on the third day that Jacob fled.

23And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.

24And he saw in a dream God saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.

25Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he with his brethren had overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same mount of Galaad.

26And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters, as captives taken with the sword.

27Why wouldst thou run away privately and not acquaint me, that I might have brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with timbrels, and with harps?

28Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters: thou hast done foolishly: and now, indeed,

29It 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.

30Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father’s house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?

31Jacob answered: That I departed unknown to thee, it was for fear lest thou wouldst take away thy daughters by force.

32But whereas thou chargest me with theft: with whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, let him be slain before our brethren. Search, and if thou find any of thy things with me, take them away. Now when he said this, he knew not that Rachel had stolen the idols.

33So Laban went into the tent of Jacob, and of Lia, and of both the handmaids, and found them not. And when he was entered into Rachel’s tent,

34She in haste hid the idols under the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them: and when he had searched all the tent, and found nothing,

35She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to me, according to the custom of women, So his careful search was in vain.

36And Jacob being angry, said in a chiding manner: For what fault of mine, and for what offence on my part hast thou so hotly pursued me,

37And searched all my household stuff? What hast thou found of all the substance of thy house? lay it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and let them judge between me and thee.

38Have I therefore been with thee twenty years? thy ewes and goats were not barren, the rams of thy flocks I did not eat:

39Neither did I show thee that which the beast had torn, I made good all the damage: whatsoever was lost by theft, thou didst exact it of me:

40Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep departed from my eyes.

41And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.

42Unless 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.

43Laban answered him: The daughters are mine and the children, and thy flocks, and all things that thou seest are mine: what can I do to my children, and grandchildren?

44Come therefore, let us enter into a league: that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.

45And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title:

46And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they gathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.

47And Laban called it The witness heap: and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.

48And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.

49The Lord behold and judge between us when we shall be gone one from the other.

50If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.

51And he said again to Jacob: Behold, this heap, and the stone which I have set up between me and thee,

52Shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for a testimony, if either I shall pass beyond it going towards thee, or thou shalt pass beyond it, thinking harm to me.

53The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

54And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there:

55But Laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons, and daughters, and blessed them: and returned to his place.

1Postquam autem audivit verba filiorum Laban dicentium: Tulit Jacob omnia quæ fuerunt patris nostri, et de illius facultate ditatus, factus est inclytus:

2animadvertit quoque faciem Laban, quod non esset erga se sicut heri et nudiustertius,

3maxime dicente sibi Domino: Revertere in terram patrum tuorum, et ad generationem tuam, eroque tecum.

4Misit, et vocavit Rachel et Liam in agrum, ubi pascebat greges,

5dixitque eis: Video faciem patris vestri quod non sit erga me sicut heri et nudiustertius: Deus autem patris mei fuit mecum.

6Et ipsæ nostis quod totis viribus meis servierim patri vestro.

7Sed et pater vester circumvenit me et mutavit mercedem meam decem vicibus: et tamen non dimisit eum Deus ut noceret mihi.

8Si quando dixit: Variæ erunt mercedes tuæ: pariebant omnes oves varios fœtus; quando vero e contrario, ait: Alba quæque accipies pro mercede: omnes greges alba pepererunt.

9Tulitque Deus substantiam patris vestri, et dedit mihi.

10Postquam enim conceptus ovium tempus advenerat, levavi oculos meos, et vidi in somnis ascendentes mares super feminas, varios et maculosos, et diversorum colorum.

11Dixitque angelus Dei ad me in somnis: Jacob? Et ego respondi: Adsum.

12Qui ait: Leva oculos tuos, et vide universos masculos ascendentes super feminas, varios, maculosos, atque respersos. Vidi enim omnia quæ fecit tibi Laban.

13Ego sum Deus Bethel, ubi unxisti lapidem, et votum vovisti mihi. Nunc ergo surge, et egredere de terra hac, revertens in terram nativitatis tuæ.

14Responderuntque Rachel et Lia: Numquid habemus residui quidquam in facultatibus et hæreditate domus patris nostri?

15nonne quasi alienas reputavit nos, et vendidit, comeditque pretium nostrum?

16Sed Deus tulit opes patris nostri, et eas tradidit nobis, ac filiis nostris: unde omnia quæ præcepit tibi Deus, fac.

17Surrexit itaque Jacob, et impositis liberis ac conjugibus suis super camelos, abiit.

18Tulitque omnem substantiam suam, et greges, et quidquid in Mesopotamia acquisierat, pergens ad Isaac patrem suum in terram Chanaan.

19Eo tempore ierat Laban ad tondendas oves, et Rachel furata est idola patris sui.

20Noluitque Jacob confiteri socero suo quod fugeret.

21Cumque abiisset tam ipse quam omnia quæ juris sui erant, et amne transmisso pergeret contra montem Galaad,

22nuntiatum est Laban die tertio quod fugeret Jacob.

23Qui, assumptis fratribus suis, persecutus est eum diebus septem: et comprehendit eum in monte Galaad.

24Viditque in somnis dicentem sibi Deum: Cave ne quidquam aspere loquaris contra Jacob.

25Jamque Jacob extenderat in monte tabernaculum: cumque ille consecutus fuisset eum cum fratribus suis, in eodem monte Galaad fixit tentorium.

26Et dixit ad Jacob: Quare ita egisti, ut clam me abigeres filias meas quasi captivas gladio?

27cur ignorante me fugere voluisti, nec indicare mihi, ut prosequerer te cum gaudio, et canticis, et tympanis, et citharis?

28Non es passus ut oscularer filios meos et filias: stulte operatus es: et nunc quidem

29valet manus mea reddere tibi malum: sed Deus patris vestri heri dixit mihi: Cave ne loquaris contra Jacob quidquam durius.

30Esto, ad tuos ire cupiebas, et desiderio erat tibi domus patris tui: cur furatus es deos meos?

31Respondit Jacob: Quod inscio te profectus sum, timui ne violenter auferres filias tuas.

32Quod autem furti me arguis: apud quemcumque inveneris deos tuos, necetur coram fratribus nostris: scrutare, quidquid tuorum apud me inveneris, et aufer. Hæc dicens, ignorabat quod Rachel furata esset idola.

33Ingressus itaque Laban tabernaculum Jacob, et Liæ, et utriusque famulæ, non invenit. Cumque intrasset tentorium Rachelis,

34illa festinans abscondit idola subter stramenta cameli, et sedit desuper: scrutantique omne tentorium, et nihil invenienti,

35ait: Ne irascatur dominus meus quod coram te assurgere nequeo: quia juxta consuetudinem feminarum nunc accidit mihi: sic delusa sollicitudo quærentis est.

36Tumensque Jacob, cum jurgio ait: Quam ob culpam meam, et ob quod peccatum meum sic exarsisti post me,

37et scrutatus es omnem supellectilem meam? quid invenisti de cuncta substantia domus tuæ? pone hic coram fratribus meis, et fratribus tuis, et judicent inter me et te.

38Idcirco viginti annis fui tecum? oves tuæ et capræ steriles non fuerunt, arietes gregis tui non comedi:

39nec captum a bestia ostendi tibi, ego damnum omne reddebam: quidquid furto peribat, a me exigebas:

40die noctuque æstu urebar, et gelu, fugiebatque somnus ab oculis meis.

41Sicque per viginti annos in domo tua servivi tibi, quatuordecim pro filiabus, et sex pro gregibus tuis: immutasti quoque mercedem meam decem vicibus.

42Nisi Deus patris mei Abraham, et timor Isaac affuisset mihi, forsitan modo nudum me dimisisses: afflictionem meam et laborem manuum mearum respexit Deus, et arguit te heri.

43Respondit ei Laban: Filiæ meæ et filii, et greges tui, et omnia quæ cernis, mea sunt: quid possum facere filiis et nepotibus meis?

44Veni ergo, et ineamus fœdus, ut sit in testimonium inter me et te.

45Tulit itaque Jacob lapidem, et erexit illum in titulum:

46dixitque fratribus suis: Afferte lapides. Qui congregantes fecerunt tumulum, comederuntque super eum:

47quem vocavit Laban Tumulum testis: et Jacob, Acervum testimonii, uterque juxta proprietatem linguæ suæ.

48Dixitque Laban: Tumulus iste erit testis inter me et te hodie, et idcirco appellatum est nomen ejus Galaad, id est, Tumulus testis.

49Intueatur et judicet Dominus inter nos quando recesserimus a nobis,

50si afflixeris filias meas, et si introduxeris alias uxores super eas: nullus sermonis nostri testis est absque Deo, qui præsens respicit.

51Dixitque rursus ad Jacob: En tumulus hic, et lapis quem erexi inter me et te,

52testis erit: tumulus, inquam, iste et lapis sint in testimonium, si aut ego transiero illum pergens ad te, aut tu præterieris, malum mihi cogitans.

53Deus Abraham, et Deus Nachor, judicet inter nos, Deus patris eorum. Juravit ergo Jacob per timorem patris sui Isaac:

54immolatisque victimis in monte, vocavit fratres suos ut ederent panem. Qui cum comedissent, manserunt ibi:

55Laban vero de nocte consurgens, osculatus est filios, et filias suas, et benedixit illis: reversusque est in locum suum.

1But afterwards, he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and being enlarged by his ability, he has become famous.”

2Likewise, he observed that Laban’s face was not the same toward him as it was yesterday and the day before.

3Most importantly, the Lord was saying to him, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your generation, and I will be with you.”

4He sent and called for Rachel and Leah, in the field where he pastured the flocks,

5and he said to them: “I see that your father’s face is not the same toward me as it was yesterday and the day before. But the God of my father has been with me.

6And you know that I have served your father with all my strength.

7Even so, your father has circumvented me, and he has changed my wages ten times. And yet God has not permitted him to harm me.

8Whenever he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ all the sheep gave birth to speckled newborns. Yet truly, when he said the contrary, ‘You will take whatever is white for your wages,’ all the flocks gave birth to white ones.

9And it is God who has taken your father’s substance and given it to me.

10For after the time had arrived for the ewes to conceive, I lifted up my eyes, and I saw in my sleep that the males climbing on the females were of variegated, and spotted, and diverse colors.

11And the Angel of God said to me in my sleep, ‘Jacob.’ And I responded, ‘Here I am.’

12And he said: ‘Lift up your eyes, and see that all the males climbing on the females are variegated, spotted, and also speckled. For I have seen all that Laban has done to you.

13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the stone and made a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and depart from this land, returning to the land of your nativity.’ ”

14And Rachel and Leah responded: “Have we anything left behind among the resources and inheritance of our father’s house?

15Has he not considered us as foreigners, and sold us, and consumed our price?

16But God has taken our father’s riches and handed these to us and to our sons. Therefore, do all that God has instructed you.”

17And so Jacob rose up, and having placed the children and his wives upon camels, he went forth.

18And he took all his substance and flocks, and whatever he had acquired in Mesopotamia, and he journeyed to his father Isaac, in the land of Canaan.

19At that time, Laban had gone to shear the sheep, and so Rachel stole her father’s idols.

20And Jacob was not willing to confess to his father-in-law that he was fleeing.

21And when he had gone away with all such things that were justly his, and, having crossed the river, was continuing on toward Mount Gilead,

22it was reported to Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled.

23And taking his brothers with him, he pursued him for seven days. And he overtook him at Mount Gilead.

24And he saw in a dream, God saying to him, “Beware that you not speak anything harsh against Jacob.”

25And now Jacob had pitched his tent at the mountain. And when he, with his brothers, had overtaken him, he set his tent at the same place at Mount Gilead.

26And he said to Jacob: “Why have you acted this way, departing from me in secret, with my daughters like captives of the sword?

27Why would you want to flee without my knowledge and without telling me, though I might have led you forward with gladness, and songs, and timbrels, and lyres?

28You have not permitted me to kiss my sons and daughters. You have acted foolishly. And now, indeed,

29my hand has power to repay you with harm. But the God of your father said to me yesterday, ‘Beware that you not speak anything stern against Jacob.’

30It may be that you desired to go to your own, and that you longed for the house of your father. But why have you stolen my gods?”

31Jacob answered: “I set out, unknown to you, because I feared that you might take away your daughters by violence.

32But, since you accuse me of theft, with whomever you will find your gods, let him be slain in the sight of our brothers. Search; anything of yours that you will find with me, take it away.” Now when he said this, he did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.

33And so Laban, entering the tent of Jacob, and of Leah, and of both the handmaids, did not find them. And when he had entered the tent of Rachel,

34she quickly hid the idols under the camel’s bedding, and she sat upon them. And when he had searched the entire tent and found nothing,

35she said: “Do not be angry, my lord, that I am unable to rise up in your sight, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women.” So his careful search was thwarted.

36And Jacob, being inflated, said with contention: “For which fault of mine, or for what sin of mine, have you become so enraged against me

37and searched all the items of my house? What have you found from all the substance of your house? Place it here before my brothers, and your brothers, and let them judge between me and you.

38For what reason have I been with you for twenty years? Your ewes and she-goats were not barren; the rams of your flocks I did not consume.

39Neither did I reveal to you what was seized by the wild beast. I replaced all that was damaged. Whatever was lost by theft, you collected it from me.

40Day and night, I was burned by heat and by frost, and sleep fled from my eyes.

41And in this way, for twenty years, I have served you in your house: fourteen for your daughters, and six for your flocks. You have also changed my wages ten times.

42If the God of my father Abraham and the fear of Isaac had not been close to me, perhaps by now you would have sent me away naked. But God looked kindly on my affliction and the labor of my hands, and he rebuked you yesterday.”

43Laban answered him: “My daughters and sons, and your flocks, and all that you discern are mine. What can I do to my sons and grandchildren?

44Come, therefore, let us enter into a pact, so that it may be a testimony between me and you.”

45And so Jacob took a stone, and he set it up as a memorial.

46And he said to his brothers, “Bring stones.” And they, gathering together stones, made a tomb, and they ate upon it.

47And Laban called it, ‘Tomb of Witness,’ and Jacob, ‘Pile of Testimony;’ each of them according to the fitness of his own language.

48And Laban said: “This tomb will be a witness between me and you this day.” (And for this reason, its name has been called Gilead, that is, ‘Tomb of Witness.’)

49“May the Lord consider and judge between us, when we will have withdrawn from one another.

50If you afflict my daughters, and if you bring in other wives over them, no one is a witness of our words except God, who understands beforehand.”

51And again he said to Jacob. “Lo, this tomb and the stone that I have set up between me and you,

52will be a witness. This tomb,” I say, “and the stone, they are for testimony, in case either I cross beyond it going toward you, or you cross beyond it thinking to harm me.

53May the God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Therefore, Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

54And after he had immolated sacrifices on the mountain, he called his brothers to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there.

55In truth, Laban rose up in the night, and he kissed his sons and daughters, and he blessed them. And he returned to his place.