< تكوين 31 >

وَسَمِعَ يَعْقُوبُ مَا يُرَدِّدُهُ أَبْنَاءُ لابَانَ قَائِلِينَ: «لَقَدِ اسْتَوْلَى يَعْقُوبُ عَلَى كُلِّ مَا لأَبِينَا، وَجَمَعَ ثَرْوَتَهُ مِمَّا يَمْلِكُهُ وَالِدُنَا». ١ 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.”
وَرَأَى يَعْقُوبُ أَنَّ مُعَامَلَةَ لابَانَ لَهُ قَدْ طَرَأَ عَلَيْهَا تَغْيِيرٌ فَاخْتَلَفَتْ عَمَّا كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِ سَابِقاً. ٢ 2
Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
وَقَالَ الرَّبُّ لِيَعْقُوبَ: «عُدْ إِلَى أَرْضِ آبَائِكَ وَإِلَى قَوْمِكَ وَأَنَا أَكُونُ مَعَكَ». ٣ 3
The LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
فَأَرْسَلَ يَعْقُوبُ وَاسْتَدْعَى رَاحِيلَ وَلَيْئَةَ إِلَى الْحَقْلِ حَيْثُ يَرْعَى الْمَاشِيَةَ. ٤ 4
Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
وَقَالَ لَهُمَا: «إِنِّي أَرَى أَنَّ أَبَاكُمَا لَمْ يَعُدْ يُعَامِلُنِي كَالْعَهْدِ بِهِ مِنْ قَبْلُ، وَلَكِنْ إِلَهُ أَبَائِي كَانَ وَمَازَالَ مَعِي. ٥ 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.
أَنْتُمَا تَعْلَمَانِ أَنَّنِي خَدَمْتُ أَبَاكُمَا بِكُلِّ قُوَايَ. ٦ 6
You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
أَمَّا أَبُوكُمَا فَقَدْ غَدَرَ بِي وَغَيَّرَ أُجْرَتِي عَشْرَ مَرَّاتٍ. لَكِنَّ اللهَ لَمْ يَسْمَحْ لَهُ بِأَنْ يُسِيءَ إِلَيَّ. ٧ 7
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
فَإِنْ قَالَ: لِتَكُنِ الْغَنَمُ الرُّقْطُ أُجْرَتَكَ، وَلَدَتْ كُلُّ الْغَنَمِ رُقْطاً. وَإِنْ قَالَ: لِتَكُنِ الْغَنَمُ الْمُخَطَّطَةُ أُجْرَتَكَ، وَلَدَتْ كُلُّ الْغَنَمِ مُخَطَّطَةً. ٨ 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.
لَقَدْ سَلَبَ اللهُ مَوَاشِي أَبِيكُمَا وَأَعْطَانِي إِيَّاهَا. ٩ 9
Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.
وَرَأَيْتُ فِي مَوْسِمِ تَلاقُحِ الْغَنَمِ حُلْماً: أَنَّ جَمِيعَ الْفُحُولِ الصَّاعِدَةِ عَلَى الْغَنَمِ مُخَطَّطَةٌ وَرَقْطَاءُ وَمُنَمَّرَةٌ. ١٠ 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.
وَقَالَ لِي مَلاكُ اللهِ فِي الْحُلْمِ: يَا يَعْقُوبُ، ١١ 11
The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’
تَطَلَّعْ حَوْلَكَ وَانْظُرْ، فَتَرَى أَنَّ جَمِيعَ الْفُحُولِ الصَّاعِدَةِ عَلَى الْغَنَمِ هِيَ مُخَطَّطَةٌ وَرَقْطَاءُ وَمُنَمَّرَةٌ. فَإِنِّي رَأَيْتُ مَا يَصْنَعُهُ بِكَ لابَانُ. ١٢ 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.
أَنَا إِلَهُ بَيْتِ إِيلَ، حَيْثُ مَسَحْتَ عَمُوداً، وَحَيْثُ نَذَرْتَ لِي نَذْراً. الآنَ قُمْ وَامْضِ مِنْ هَذِهِ الأَرْضِ وَارْجِعْ إِلَى أَرْضِ مَوْلِدِكَ». ١٣ 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.’”
فَقَالَتْ رَاحِيلُ وَلَيْئَةُ: «هَلْ بَقِيَ لَنَا نَصِيبٌ وَمِيرَاثٌ فِي بَيْتِ أَبِينَا؟ ١٤ 14
Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
أَلَمْ يُعَامِلْنَا كَأَجْنَبِيَّتَيْنِ لأَنَّهُ بَاعَنَا وَأَكَلَ ثَمَنَنَا أَيْضاً؟ ١٥ 15
Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.
إِنَّ كُلَّ الثَّرْوَةِ الَّتِي سَلَبَهَا اللهُ مِنْ أَبِينَا هِيَ لَنَا وَلأَوْلادِنَا، وَالآنَ افْعَلْ كُلَّ مَا قَالَهُ اللهُ لَكَ». ١٦ 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.”
فَقَامَ يَعْقُوبُ وَحَمَلَ أَوْلادَهُ وَنِسَاءَهُ عَلَى الْجِمَالِ، ١٧ 17
Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,
وَسَاقَ كُلَّ مَاشِيَتِهِ أَمَامَهُ وَجَمِيعَ مُقْتَنَيَاتِهِ الَّتِي اقْتَنَاهَا فِي سَهْلِ أَرَامَ وَاتَّجَهَ إِلَى إِسْحاقَ أَبِيهِ فِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ. ١٨ 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.
وَكَانَ لابَانُ قَدْ مَضَى لِيَجُزَّ غَنَمَهُ، فَسَرَقَتْ رَاحِيلُ أَصْنَامَ أَبِيهَا. ١٩ 19
Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.
وَكَذَلِكَ خَدَعَ يَعْقُوبُ لابَانَ الأَرَامِيَّ فَلَمْ يُخْبِرْهُ بِقَرَارِهِ ٢٠ 20
Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
فَهَرَبَ هُوَ وَكُلُّ مَا مَعَهُ، وَانْطَلَقَ عَابِراً النَّهْرَ مُتَوَجِّهاً نَحْوَ جَبَلِ جِلْعَادَ. ٢١ 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.
فَأُخْبِرَ لابَانُ فِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّالِثِ أَنَّ يَعْقُوبَ قَدْ هَرَبَ. ٢٢ 22
Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
فَصَحِبَ إِخْوَتَهُ مَعَهُ وَتَعَقَّبَهُ مَسِيرَةَ سَبْعَةِ أَيَّامٍ حَتَّى أَدْرَكَهُ فِي جَبَلِ جِلْعَادَ. ٢٣ 23
He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
فَتَجَلَّى اللهُ لِلابَانَ الأَرَامِيِّ فِي حُلْمٍ لَيْلاً وَقَالَ لَهُ: «إِيَّاكَ أَنْ تُخَاطِبَ يَعْقُوبَ بِخَيْرٍ أَوْ بِشَرٍّ». ٢٤ 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.”
وَحِينَ أَدْرَكَ لابَانُ يَعْقُوبَ كَانَ يَعْقُوبُ قَدْ ضَرَبَ خَيْمَتَهُ فِي الْجَبَلِ، فَخَيَّمَ لابَانُ وَإخْوَتُهُ فِي جَبَلِ جِلْعَادَ. ٢٥ 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.
وَقَالَ لابَانُ لِيَعْقُوبَ: «مَاذَا دَهَاكَ حَتَّى إِنَّكَ خَدَعْتَنِي وَسُقْتَ ابْنَتَيَّ كَسَبَايَا السَّيْفِ؟ ٢٦ 26
Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
لِمَاذَا هَرَبْتَ خِفْيَةً وَخَدَعْتَنِي؟ لِمَاذَا لَمْ تُخْبِرْنِي فَكُنْتُ أُشَيِّعُكَ بِفَرَحٍ وَغِنَاءٍ وَدُفٍّ وَعُودٍ؟ ٢٧ 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;
وَلَمْ تَدَعْنِي أُقَبِّلُ أَحْفَادِي وَابْنَتَيَّ؟ إِنَّكَ بِغَبَاوَةٍ تَصَرَّفْتَ. ٢٨ 28
and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.
إنَّ فِي مَقْدُورِي أَنْ أُؤْذِيَكَ، وَلِكِنَّ إِلَهَ أَبِيكَ أَمَرَنِي لَيْلَةَ أَمْسٍ قَائِلاً: إِيَّاكَ أَنْ تُخَاطِبَ يَعْقُوبَ بِخَيْرٍ أَوْ بِشَرٍّ. ٢٩ 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.’
وَالآنَ أَنْتَ تَمْضِي لأَنَّكَ اشْتَقْتَ إِلَى بَيْتِ أَبِيكَ، وَلَكِنْ لِمَاذَا سَرَقْتَ آلِهَتِي؟». ٣٠ 30
Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”
فَأَجَابَ يَعْقُوبُ: «لأَنَّنِي خِفْتُ أَنْ تَغْتَصِبَ ابْنَتَيْكَ مِنِّي. ٣١ 31
Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’
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. ٣٢ 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.
فَدَخَلَ لابَانُ خَيْمَةَ كُلٍّ مِنْ يَعْقُوبَ وَلَيْئَةَ وَالْجَارِيَتَيْنِ فَلَمْ يَجِدْ شَيْئاً. ثُمَّ خَرَجَ مِنْ خِبَاءِ لَيْئَةَ وَدَخَلَ إِلَى خَيْمَةِ رَاحِيلَ. ٣٣ 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.
وَكَانَتْ رَاحِيلُ قَدْ أَخَذَتِ الأَصْنَامَ وَأَخْفَتْهَا فِي رَحْلِ الْجَمَلِ وَجَلَسَتْ عَلَيْهَا، فَبَحَثَ فِي كُلِّ الْخَيْمَةِ دُونَ أَنْ يَعْثُرَ عَلَى شَيْءٍ. ٣٤ 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.
وَقَالَتْ لأَبِيهَا «لا يُسِئْكَ يَا سَيِّدِي عَدَمُ اسْتِطَاعَتِي الْوُقُوفَ أَمَامَكَ لأَنَّ عَادَةَ النِّسَاءِ قَدْ عَرَضَتْ لِي». وَعِنْدَمَا بَحَثَ لابَانُ وَلَمْ يَجِدْ شَيْئاً ٣٥ 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.
اغْتَاظَ يَعْقُوبُ وَخَاصَمَ لابَانَ قَائِلاً: «مَا هُوَ ذَنْبِي وَمَا هِيَ خَطِيئَتِي حَتَّى تَعَقَّبْتَنِي بِغَيْظٍ؟ ٣٦ 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?
وَهَا أَنْتَ قَدْ فَتَّشْتَ جَمِيعَ أَثَاثِ بَيْتِي، فَمَاذَا وَجَدْتَ مِنْ جَمِيعِ أَثَاثِ بَيْتِكَ؟ اعْرِضْهُ هُنَا أَمَامَ أَقْرِبَائِنَا فَيَحْكُمُوا بَيْنَنَا كِلَيْنَا. ٣٧ 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.
لَقَدْ مَكَثْتُ مَعَكَ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً، فَمَا أَسْقَطَتْ نِعَاجُكَ وَعِنَازُكَ، وَلَمْ آكُلْ مِنْ كِبَاشِ غَنَمِكَ. ٣٨ 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.
أَشْلاءَ فَرِيسَةٍ لَمْ أُحْضِرْ لَكَ بَلْ كُنْتُ أَتَحَمَّلُ خَسَارَتَهَا، وَمِنْ يَدِي كُنْتَ تَطْلُبُهَا، سَوَاءٌ كَانَتْ مَخْطُوفَةً فِي النَّهَارِ أَمْ فِي اللَّيْلِ. ٣٩ 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.
كُنْتُ فِي النَّهَارِ يَأْكُلُنِي الْحَرُّ وَفِي اللَّيْلِ الْجَلِيدُ، وَفَارَقَ نَوْمِي عَيْنَيَّ. ٤٠ 40
This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
لَقَدْ صَارَ لِي عِشْرُونَ سَنَةً فِي بَيْتِكَ. أَرْبَعَ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً مِنْهَا خَدَمْتُكَ لِقَاءَ زَوَاجِي بِابْنَتَيْكَ، وَسِتَّ سَنَوَاتٍ مُقَابِلَ غَنَمِكَ، وَقَدْ غَيَّرْتَ أُجْرَتِي عَشْرَ مَرَّاتٍ. ٤١ 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.
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». ٤٢ 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.”
فَأَجَابَ لابَانُ: «الْبَنَاتُ بَنَاتِي، وَالأَبْنَاءُ أَبْنَائِي وَالْغَنَمُ غَنَمِي، وَكُلُّ مَا تَرَاهُ هُوَ لِي. وَلَكِنْ مَاذَا أَفْعَلُ بِبَنَاتِي وَأَوْلادِهِنَّ الآنَ؟ ٤٣ 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?
فَلْنَقْطَعْ عَهْداً بَيْنَنَا الْيَوْمَ، فَيَكُونَ شَاهِداً بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ». ٤٤ 44
Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”
فَأَخَذَ يَعْقُوبُ حَجَراً وَنَصَبَهُ عَمُوداً، ٤٥ 45
Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
وَقَالَ لأَقْرِبَائِهِ: «اجْمَعُوا حِجَارَةً». فَأَخَذُوا الْحِجَارَةَ وَجَعَلُوهَا رُجْمَةً وَأَكَلُوا هُنَاكَ فَوْقَهَا. ٤٦ 46
Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
وَدَعَاهَا لابَانُ «يَجَرْ سَهْدُوثَا» (وَمَعْنَاهَا: رُجْمَةُ الشَّهَادَةِ بِلُغَةِ لابَانَ) وَأَمَّا يَعْقُوبُ فَدَعَاهَا «جَلْعِيدَ» (وَمَعْنَاهَا: رُجْمَةُ الشَّهَادَةِ بِلُغَةِ يَعْقُوبَ). ٤٧ 47
Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
وَقَالَ لابَانُ: «هَذِهِ الرُّجْمَةُ شَاهِدَةٌ الْيَوْمَ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ». لِذَلِكَ دُعِيَ اسْمُهَا جَلْعِيدَ. ٤٨ 48
Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed
وَكَذَلِكَ دُعِيَتْ بِالْمِصْفَاةِ أَيْضاً لأَنَّهُ قَالَ: «لِيَكُنِ الرَّبُّ رَقِيباً بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ حِينَ يَغِيبُ كُلٌّ مِنَّا عَنِ الآخَرِ. ٤٩ 49
and Mizpah, for he said, “The LORD watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
إِنْ أَسَأْتَ مُعَامَلَةَ ابْنَتَيَّ، أَوْ تَزَوَّجْتَ عَلَيْهِمَا، فَإِنَّ اللهَ يَرَاكَ وَيَكُونُ حَاكِماً بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ حَتَّى لَوْ لَمْ أَعْرِفْ أَنَا». ٥٠ 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.”
وَأَضَافَ: «لِتَكُنِ الرُّجْمَةُ، وَهَذَا الْعَمُودُ الَّذِي أَقَمْتُهُ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ ٥١ 51
Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.
شَاهِدَيْنِ أَنْ لَا أَتَجَاوَزَ هَذِهِ الرُّجْمَةَ لإِيقَاعِ الأَذَى بِكَ، أَوْ تَتَجَاوَزَ أَنْتَ الرُّجْمَةَ وَهَذَا الْعَمُودَ لإِلْحَاقِ الضَّرَرِ بِي. ٥٢ 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.
وَلْيَكُنْ إِلَهُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَإِلَهُ نَاحُورَ وَإِلَهُ أَبِيهِمَا حَاكِماً بَيْنَنَا». فَحَلَفَ يَعْقُوبُ بِهَيْبَةِ أَبِيهِ إِسْحاقَ. ٥٣ 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.
ثُمَّ قَدَّمَ يَعْقُوبُ قُرْبَاناً فِي الْجَبَلِ وَدَعَا أَقْرِبَاءَهُ لِيَأْكُلُوا طَعَاماً، فَأَكَلُوا وَقَضَوْا لَيْلَتَهُمْ فِي الْجَبَلِ. ٥٤ 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.
وَفِي الصَّبَاحِ الْمُبَكِّرِ نَهَضَ لابَانُ وَقَبَّلَ أَحْفَادَهُ وَابْنَتَيْهِ وَبَارَكَهُمْ، ثُمَّ انْصَرَفَ رَاجِعاً، إِلَى مَحَلِّ إِقَامَتِهِ. ٥٥ 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.

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