heard the utterances of the sons of Laban, saying, Jacob has taken all the things of our father. And by the things of our father he has produced all this glory.
And Jacob saw the face of Laban; and behold, he was not for him as yesterday and day before.
said to Jacob, Return to the land of your father, and to your family! and I will be with you.
sending called Leah and Rachel to the plain where were
And he said to them, I see the face of your father, that it is not towards me as yesterday and day before. But the God of my father was with me.
also know that with all my strength I have served your father.
But your father cheated me, and bartered my wage for the ten lambs. And did not
If thus he should have said, The colored will be your wage, then would bear colored. And if he should have said, The white will be your wage, then would bear white.
And God removed all the herds of your father, and he gave them to me.
And it came to pass when were stimulated in conceiving, that I saw with in sleep. And behold, the he-goats and the rams ascended upon the flocks, and the she-goats white-mixed and colored and ashen speckled.
And said during sleep, Jacob. And I said, What is it?
And he said, Look up your eyes, and see the he-goats and the rams ascending upon the flocks, and the she-goats white-mixed and colored and ashen speckled! For I have seen as much as to you
I am God, the one appearing to you in of God, of which you anointed to me there a monument, and vowed to me there a vow. Now then, rise up and go forth from out of this land! And go forth into the land of your birth!
And answering Rachel and Leah said to him, Is there not to us still a portion or inheritance in the house of our father?
as to him? For he has sold us, and by eating up a thing devoured our silver.
All the riches and the glory which removed will be ours and our children's. Now then as much as has said to you you do!
rising up took his wives, and his children upon the camels.
And he took away all his possessions, and all his belongings, which he procured in Mesopotamia, and all his things to go forth to Isaac his father, in of Canaan.
And Laban set out to shear his flocks, stole the idols of her father.
hid the fact from Laban the Syrian, to announce to him that he is running away.
And he ran away, himself and all of his. And he passed over the river, and he advanced unto the mountain of Gilead.
And it was announced to Laban the Syrian on the day that Jacob ran away.
And taking all the ones of his brethren with himself, he pursued after him journey And he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
came to Laban the Syrian during sleep in the night, and he said to him, Guard! lest at any time you should speak against
And Laban overtook Jacob. And Jacob pitched his tent in the mountain. And Laban stationed his brethren in the mountain of Gilead.
said to Jacob, What did you do? Why did you secretly run away, and ransacked me, and took away my daughters as captives
For if you announced to me, I would have sent out even you with gladness, and with music, and tambourines, and harps.
And not am I worthy to kiss my children, and my daughters. Now then unwisely
And now is strong to do evil But the God of your father yesterday said to me, saying, Guard yourself! lest at any time you should speak against
Now then, you go! For with desire you desired to go forth unto the house of your father; why did you steal my gods?
And answering Jacob said to Laban, For I said, Lest at any time you should remove your daughters from me, and all my things.
And Jacob said, By whomsoever you should find your gods, he shall not live before our brethren. Recognize what is from me of the things of yours, and take them! And he did not recognize among not one thing. did not that Rachel his wife stole them.
And entering, Laban searched in the house of Leah, and he did not find. And he came forth from out of the house of Leah, and he searched the house of Jacob, and in the house of the two maidservants, and he did not find. And he entered also into the house of Rachel.
And Rachel took the idols, and put them in the packsaddles of the camel, and sat on them.
And she said to her father, Do not heavily O master, I shall not be able to rise up before you, for the custom of women is to me. searched in house, and he did not find the idols.
was provoked to anger and he quarreled Laban. And responding Jacob said to Laban, What is my offence? and what is my sin, that you pursued after me?
and that you searched all the items of my house? What did you find from all the items of your house? Put here before your brethren and my brethren, and let them reprove between the two of us!
These twenty years I am with you; your flocks and your goats were not barren, of your flocks I did not eat.
I have not brought to you. I paid for them by myself, by day, and thefts by night.
I was by day and with the icy coldness of the night. And departed from my eyes.
These twenty years I am in your residence. I served you fourteen years for two and six years among your sheep, and you cheated my wage ewe-lambs.
Unless the God of my father Abraham, and the fear of Isaac was with me, now then would me empty My humiliation and the toil of my hands God saw, and he reproved you yesterday.
And responding Laban said to Jacob, The daughters and my sons, and the cattle my cattle; and all as much as you see is mine, and the property of my daughters. What shall I do with these women today or the children of them whom they bore?
Now then, come here, we should ordain a covenant, I and you, and it will be a testimony between me and you.
taking a stone, established it
said to his brethren, Collect together stones! And they collected together stones. And they made a hill. And they ate there upon the hill.
And called Hill of the Witness, but Jacob called it,
said this hill witnesses between me and you today. Because of this was called Hill Witnesses.
And the vision, which he said, Let God look between me and you, we will leave from the other.
If you shall humble my daughters, if you should take wives over my daughters, you see no one with seeing God between me and between you.
And Laban said to Jacob, Behold, this hill, and the monument which I stood between me and you;
witnesses and the monument which I stood it witnesses. For if I pass over, I to you, neither shall you pass over to me and this monument, for evil.
The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor judges between us.
And Jacob swore by an oath according to the fear of his father Isaac. And he sacrificed a sacrifice in the mountain, and he called his brethren; and they ate and drank, and they went to sleep in the mountain.
rising up in the morning, kissed the sons and daughers of his, and he blessed them. And Laban turned to his place.