تكوين 31

١ 1 وَسَمِعَ يَعْقُوبُ مَا يُرَدِّدُهُ أَبْنَاءُ لابَانَ قَائِلِينَ: «لَقَدِ اسْتَوْلَى يَعْقُوبُ عَلَى كُلِّ مَا لأَبِينَا، وَجَمَعَ ثَرْوَتَهُ مِمَّا يَمْلِكُهُ وَالِدُنَا».

He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our father's he has gained all this wealth."

٢ 2 وَرَأَى يَعْقُوبُ أَنَّ مُعَامَلَةَ لابَانَ لَهُ قَدْ طَرَأَ عَلَيْهَا تَغْيِيرٌ فَاخْتَلَفَتْ عَمَّا كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِ سَابِقاً.

Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and look, it was not as it had been.

٣ 3 وَقَالَ الرَّبُّ لِيَعْقُوبَ: «عُدْ إِلَى أَرْضِ آبَائِكَ وَإِلَى قَوْمِكَ وَأَنَا أَكُونُ مَعَكَ».

Then God said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."

٤ 4 فَأَرْسَلَ يَعْقُوبُ وَاسْتَدْعَى رَاحِيلَ وَلَيْئَةَ إِلَى الْحَقْلِ حَيْثُ يَرْعَى الْمَاشِيَةَ.

Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flock was,

٥ 5 وَقَالَ لَهُمَا: «إِنِّي أَرَى أَنَّ أَبَاكُمَا لَمْ يَعُدْ يُعَامِلُنِي كَالْعَهْدِ بِهِ مِنْ قَبْلُ، وَلَكِنْ إِلَهُ أَبَائِي كَانَ وَمَازَالَ مَعِي.

and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not what it was before. But the God of my father has been with me.

٦ 6 أَنْتُمَا تَعْلَمَانِ أَنَّنِي خَدَمْتُ أَبَاكُمَا بِكُلِّ قُوَايَ.

You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

٧ 7 أَمَّا أَبُوكُمَا فَقَدْ غَدَرَ بِي وَغَيَّرَ أُجْرَتِي عَشْرَ مَرَّاتٍ. لَكِنَّ اللهَ لَمْ يَسْمَحْ لَهُ بِأَنْ يُسِيءَ إِلَيَّ.

Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

٨ 8 فَإِنْ قَالَ: لِتَكُنِ الْغَنَمُ الرُّقْطُ أُجْرَتَكَ، وَلَدَتْ كُلُّ الْغَنَمِ رُقْطاً. وَإِنْ قَالَ: لِتَكُنِ الْغَنَمُ الْمُخَطَّطَةُ أُجْرَتَكَ، وَلَدَتْ كُلُّ الْغَنَمِ مُخَطَّطَةً.

If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.

٩ 9 لَقَدْ سَلَبَ اللهُ مَوَاشِي أَبِيكُمَا وَأَعْطَانِي إِيَّاهَا.

Thus God has taken away your father's livestock and given them to me.

١٠ 10 وَرَأَيْتُ فِي مَوْسِمِ تَلاقُحِ الْغَنَمِ حُلْماً: أَنَّ جَمِيعَ الْفُحُولِ الصَّاعِدَةِ عَلَى الْغَنَمِ مُخَطَّطَةٌ وَرَقْطَاءُ وَمُنَمَّرَةٌ.

And it came about at the time when the flocks were breeding I looked up and saw in a dream, and look, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

١١ 11 وَقَالَ لِي مَلاكُ اللهِ فِي الْحُلْمِ: يَا يَعْقُوبُ،

The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'

١٢ 12 تَطَلَّعْ حَوْلَكَ وَانْظُرْ، فَتَرَى أَنَّ جَمِيعَ الْفُحُولِ الصَّاعِدَةِ عَلَى الْغَنَمِ هِيَ مُخَطَّطَةٌ وَرَقْطَاءُ وَمُنَمَّرَةٌ. فَإِنِّي رَأَيْتُ مَا يَصْنَعُهُ بِكَ لابَانُ.

He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and look, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.

١٣ 13 أَنَا إِلَهُ بَيْتِ إِيلَ، حَيْثُ مَسَحْتَ عَمُوداً، وَحَيْثُ نَذَرْتَ لِي نَذْراً. الآنَ قُمْ وَامْضِ مِنْ هَذِهِ الأَرْضِ وَارْجِعْ إِلَى أَرْضِ مَوْلِدِكَ».

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a standing-stone, where you made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your birth.'"

١٤ 14 فَقَالَتْ رَاحِيلُ وَلَيْئَةُ: «هَلْ بَقِيَ لَنَا نَصِيبٌ وَمِيرَاثٌ فِي بَيْتِ أَبِينَا؟

Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

١٥ 15 أَلَمْ يُعَامِلْنَا كَأَجْنَبِيَّتَيْنِ لأَنَّهُ بَاعَنَا وَأَكَلَ ثَمَنَنَا أَيْضاً؟

Aren't we regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has used up what was paid for us.

١٦ 16 إِنَّ كُلَّ الثَّرْوَةِ الَّتِي سَلَبَهَا اللهُ مِنْ أَبِينَا هِيَ لَنَا وَلأَوْلادِنَا، وَالآنَ افْعَلْ كُلَّ مَا قَالَهُ اللهُ لَكَ».

For all the wealth which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."

١٧ 17 فَقَامَ يَعْقُوبُ وَحَمَلَ أَوْلادَهُ وَنِسَاءَهُ عَلَى الْجِمَالِ،

Then Jacob got up and put his sons and his wives on the camels,

١٨ 18 وَسَاقَ كُلَّ مَاشِيَتِهِ أَمَامَهُ وَجَمِيعَ مُقْتَنَيَاتِهِ الَّتِي اقْتَنَاهَا فِي سَهْلِ أَرَامَ وَاتَّجَهَ إِلَى إِسْحاقَ أَبِيهِ فِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ.

and he took away all his livestock and all his property which he had acquired, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

١٩ 19 وَكَانَ لابَانُ قَدْ مَضَى لِيَجُزَّ غَنَمَهُ، فَسَرَقَتْ رَاحِيلُ أَصْنَامَ أَبِيهَا.

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father.

٢٠ 20 وَكَذَلِكَ خَدَعَ يَعْقُوبُ لابَانَ الأَرَامِيَّ فَلَمْ يُخْبِرْهُ بِقَرَارِهِ

Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he intended to flee.

٢١ 21 فَهَرَبَ هُوَ وَكُلُّ مَا مَعَهُ، وَانْطَلَقَ عَابِراً النَّهْرَ مُتَوَجِّهاً نَحْوَ جَبَلِ جِلْعَادَ.

So he fled with everything that he had, and he arose and crossed the River, and set out toward the hill country of Gilead.

٢٢ 22 فَأُخْبِرَ لابَانُ فِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّالِثِ أَنَّ يَعْقُوبَ قَدْ هَرَبَ.

Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.

٢٣ 23 فَصَحِبَ إِخْوَتَهُ مَعَهُ وَتَعَقَّبَهُ مَسِيرَةَ سَبْعَةِ أَيَّامٍ حَتَّى أَدْرَكَهُ فِي جَبَلِ جِلْعَادَ.

He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him for seven days, and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

٢٤ 24 فَتَجَلَّى اللهُ لِلابَانَ الأَرَامِيِّ فِي حُلْمٍ لَيْلاً وَقَالَ لَهُ: «إِيَّاكَ أَنْ تُخَاطِبَ يَعْقُوبَ بِخَيْرٍ أَوْ بِشَرٍّ».

God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night, and said to him, "Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad."

٢٥ 25 وَحِينَ أَدْرَكَ لابَانُ يَعْقُوبَ كَانَ يَعْقُوبُ قَدْ ضَرَبَ خَيْمَتَهُ فِي الْجَبَلِ، فَخَيَّمَ لابَانُ وَإخْوَتُهُ فِي جَبَلِ جِلْعَادَ.

Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his relatives camped in the hill country of Gilead.

٢٦ 26 وَقَالَ لابَانُ لِيَعْقُوبَ: «مَاذَا دَهَاكَ حَتَّى إِنَّكَ خَدَعْتَنِي وَسُقْتَ ابْنَتَيَّ كَسَبَايَا السَّيْفِ؟

Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done? You have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives taken in war?

٢٧ 27 لِمَاذَا هَرَبْتَ خِفْيَةً وَخَدَعْتَنِي؟ لِمَاذَا لَمْ تُخْبِرْنِي فَكُنْتُ أُشَيِّعُكَ بِفَرَحٍ وَغِنَاءٍ وَدُفٍّ وَعُودٍ؟

Why did you flee in secret and deceive me, and not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with joy and singing, with a tambourine and with a lyre.

٢٨ 28 وَلَمْ تَدَعْنِي أُقَبِّلُ أَحْفَادِي وَابْنَتَيَّ؟ إِنَّكَ بِغَبَاوَةٍ تَصَرَّفْتَ.

And you did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.

٢٩ 29 إنَّ فِي مَقْدُورِي أَنْ أُؤْذِيَكَ، وَلِكِنَّ إِلَهَ أَبِيكَ أَمَرَنِي لَيْلَةَ أَمْسٍ قَائِلاً: إِيَّاكَ أَنْ تُخَاطِبَ يَعْقُوبَ بِخَيْرٍ أَوْ بِشَرٍّ.

It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad.'

٣٠ 30 وَالآنَ أَنْتَ تَمْضِي لأَنَّكَ اشْتَقْتَ إِلَى بَيْتِ أَبِيكَ، وَلَكِنْ لِمَاذَا سَرَقْتَ آلِهَتِي؟».

Now you have indeed gone away, because you longed greatly for your father's house. But why have you stolen my gods?"

٣١ 31 فَأَجَابَ يَعْقُوبُ: «لأَنَّنِي خِفْتُ أَنْ تَغْتَصِبَ ابْنَتَيْكَ مِنِّي.

Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.'

٣٢ 32 وَالآنَ، مَنْ تَجِدُ آلِهَتَكَ مَعَهُ فَالْمَوْتُ عِقَابُهُ. فَتِّشْ أَمَامَ إِخْوَتِنَا كُلَّ مَا مَعِي. إِنْ وَجَدْتَ لَكَ شَيْئاً فَخُذْهُ». وَلَمْ يَكُنْ يَعْقُوبُ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّ رَاحِيلَ قَدْ سَرَقَتِ الآلِهَةَ.

Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, identify what I have that is yours, and take it with you." For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

٣٣ 33 فَدَخَلَ لابَانُ خَيْمَةَ كُلٍّ مِنْ يَعْقُوبَ وَلَيْئَةَ وَالْجَارِيَتَيْنِ فَلَمْ يَجِدْ شَيْئاً. ثُمَّ خَرَجَ مِنْ خِبَاءِ لَيْئَةَ وَدَخَلَ إِلَى خَيْمَةِ رَاحِيلَ.

Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he did not find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

٣٤ 34 وَكَانَتْ رَاحِيلُ قَدْ أَخَذَتِ الأَصْنَامَ وَأَخْفَتْهَا فِي رَحْلِ الْجَمَلِ وَجَلَسَتْ عَلَيْهَا، فَبَحَثَ فِي كُلِّ الْخَيْمَةِ دُونَ أَنْ يَعْثُرَ عَلَى شَيْءٍ.

Now Rachel had taken the idols, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.

٣٥ 35 وَقَالَتْ لأَبِيهَا «لا يُسِئْكَ يَا سَيِّدِي عَدَمُ اسْتِطَاعَتِي الْوُقُوفَ أَمَامَكَ لأَنَّ عَادَةَ النِّسَاءِ قَدْ عَرَضَتْ لِي». وَعِنْدَمَا بَحَثَ لابَانُ وَلَمْ يَجِدْ شَيْئاً

She said to her father, "Do not let my lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for the manner of women is on me." He searched, but did not find the teraphim.

٣٦ 36 اغْتَاظَ يَعْقُوبُ وَخَاصَمَ لابَانَ قَائِلاً: «مَا هُوَ ذَنْبِي وَمَا هِيَ خَطِيئَتِي حَتَّى تَعَقَّبْتَنِي بِغَيْظٍ؟

Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?

٣٧ 37 وَهَا أَنْتَ قَدْ فَتَّشْتَ جَمِيعَ أَثَاثِ بَيْتِي، فَمَاذَا وَجَدْتَ مِنْ جَمِيعِ أَثَاثِ بَيْتِكَ؟ اعْرِضْهُ هُنَا أَمَامَ أَقْرِبَائِنَا فَيَحْكُمُوا بَيْنَنَا كِلَيْنَا.

Now that you have searched around in all my stuff, did you find anything from all of your household's belongings? Put it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between the two of us.

٣٨ 38 لَقَدْ مَكَثْتُ مَعَكَ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً، فَمَا أَسْقَطَتْ نِعَاجُكَ وَعِنَازُكَ، وَلَمْ آكُلْ مِنْ كِبَاشِ غَنَمِكَ.

These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.

٣٩ 39 أَشْلاءَ فَرِيسَةٍ لَمْ أُحْضِرْ لَكَ بَلْ كُنْتُ أَتَحَمَّلُ خَسَارَتَهَا، وَمِنْ يَدِي كُنْتَ تَطْلُبُهَا، سَوَاءٌ كَانَتْ مَخْطُوفَةً فِي النَّهَارِ أَمْ فِي اللَّيْلِ.

That which was torn by animals I did not bring to you. I bore its loss. You demanded payment from me whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

٤٠ 40 كُنْتُ فِي النَّهَارِ يَأْكُلُنِي الْحَرُّ وَفِي اللَّيْلِ الْجَلِيدُ، وَفَارَقَ نَوْمِي عَيْنَيَّ.

I was consumed by the heat during the day and by the frost at night, and sleepless nights.

٤١ 41 لَقَدْ صَارَ لِي عِشْرُونَ سَنَةً فِي بَيْتِكَ. أَرْبَعَ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً مِنْهَا خَدَمْتُكَ لِقَاءَ زَوَاجِي بِابْنَتَيْكَ، وَسِتَّ سَنَوَاتٍ مُقَابِلَ غَنَمِكَ، وَقَدْ غَيَّرْتَ أُجْرَتِي عَشْرَ مَرَّاتٍ.

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.

٤٢ 42 وَلَوْلا أَنَّ إِلَهَ أَبِي، إِلَهَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَهَيْبَةَ إِسْحاقَ كَانَا مَعِي لَكُنْتَ الآنَ قَدْ صَرَفْتَنِي فَارِغاً. لَكِنِ الرَّبُّ قَدْ رَأَى مَذَلَّتِي وَتَعَبَ يَدَيَّ فَوَبَّخَكَ لَيْلَةَ أَمْسِ».

Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the one whom Isaac fears, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my harsh treatment and my hard work, and rebuked you last night."

٤٣ 43 فَأَجَابَ لابَانُ: «الْبَنَاتُ بَنَاتِي، وَالأَبْنَاءُ أَبْنَائِي وَالْغَنَمُ غَنَمِي، وَكُلُّ مَا تَرَاهُ هُوَ لِي. وَلَكِنْ مَاذَا أَفْعَلُ بِبَنَاتِي وَأَوْلادِهِنَّ الآنَ؟

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: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

٤٤ 44 فَلْنَقْطَعْ عَهْداً بَيْنَنَا الْيَوْمَ، فَيَكُونَ شَاهِداً بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ».

So now, come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between the two of us." And he said to him, "Look, there is no one with us; see, God is witness between me and you."

٤٥ 45 فَأَخَذَ يَعْقُوبُ حَجَراً وَنَصَبَهُ عَمُوداً،

Jacob took a stone and set it up as a standing-stone.

٤٦ 46 وَقَالَ لأَقْرِبَائِهِ: «اجْمَعُوا حِجَارَةً». فَأَخَذُوا الْحِجَارَةَ وَجَعَلُوهَا رُجْمَةً وَأَكَلُوا هُنَاكَ فَوْقَهَا.

Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." So they took stones and made a mound. They ate there by the mound.

٤٧ 47 وَدَعَاهَا لابَانُ «يَجَرْ سَهْدُوثَا» (وَمَعْنَاهَا: رُجْمَةُ الشَّهَادَةِ بِلُغَةِ لابَانَ) وَأَمَّا يَعْقُوبُ فَدَعَاهَا «جَلْعِيدَ» (وَمَعْنَاهَا: رُجْمَةُ الشَّهَادَةِ بِلُغَةِ يَعْقُوبَ).

Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

٤٨ 48 وَقَالَ لابَانُ: «هَذِهِ الرُّجْمَةُ شَاهِدَةٌ الْيَوْمَ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ». لِذَلِكَ دُعِيَ اسْمُهَا جَلْعِيدَ.

Laban said, "This mound is a witness between me and you today." Therefore it was named Galeed

٤٩ 49 وَكَذَلِكَ دُعِيَتْ بِالْمِصْفَاةِ أَيْضاً لأَنَّهُ قَالَ: «لِيَكُنِ الرَّبُّ رَقِيباً بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ حِينَ يَغِيبُ كُلٌّ مِنَّا عَنِ الآخَرِ.

and Mizpah, for he said, "God watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

٥٠ 50 إِنْ أَسَأْتَ مُعَامَلَةَ ابْنَتَيَّ، أَوْ تَزَوَّجْتَ عَلَيْهِمَا، فَإِنَّ اللهَ يَرَاكَ وَيَكُونُ حَاكِماً بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ حَتَّى لَوْ لَمْ أَعْرِفْ أَنَا».

If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us; see, God is witness between me and you."

٥١ 51 وَأَضَافَ: «لِتَكُنِ الرُّجْمَةُ، وَهَذَا الْعَمُودُ الَّذِي أَقَمْتُهُ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ

Laban said to Jacob, "See this mound, and see the standing-stone, which I have set between me and you.

٥٢ 52 شَاهِدَيْنِ أَنْ لَا أَتَجَاوَزَ هَذِهِ الرُّجْمَةَ لإِيقَاعِ الأَذَى بِكَ، أَوْ تَتَجَاوَزَ أَنْتَ الرُّجْمَةَ وَهَذَا الْعَمُودَ لإِلْحَاقِ الضَّرَرِ بِي.

May this mound be a witness, and the standing-stone be a witness, that I will not pass over this mound to you, and that you will not pass over this mound and this standing-stone to me, to do harm.

٥٣ 53 وَلْيَكُنْ إِلَهُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَإِلَهُ نَاحُورَ وَإِلَهُ أَبِيهِمَا حَاكِماً بَيْنَنَا». فَحَلَفَ يَعْقُوبُ بِهَيْبَةِ أَبِيهِ إِسْحاقَ.

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.

٥٤ 54 ثُمَّ قَدَّمَ يَعْقُوبُ قُرْبَاناً فِي الْجَبَلِ وَدَعَا أَقْرِبَاءَهُ لِيَأْكُلُوا طَعَاماً، فَأَكَلُوا وَقَضَوْا لَيْلَتَهُمْ فِي الْجَبَلِ.

Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his relatives to eat the meal. They ate the meal and stayed all night on the mountain.

٥٥ 55 وَفِي الصَّبَاحِ الْمُبَكِّرِ نَهَضَ لابَانُ وَقَبَّلَ أَحْفَادَهُ وَابْنَتَيْهِ وَبَارَكَهُمْ، ثُمَّ انْصَرَفَ رَاجِعاً، إِلَى مَحَلِّ إِقَامَتِهِ.

Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.