Mui 31
1 Ya: igobe da La: iba: ne egefelali ilia sia: i amane, “Ya: igobe da ninia ada ea gagui huluane wamolai dagoi. Ea gagui huluane da ninia ada ea musa: gagui liligi,” amo sia: Ya: igobe da nabi.
Someone told Jacob that Laban’s sons were complaining and saying, “Jacob has become very rich by taking everything [HYP] that belonged to our father.”
2 Musa: La: iba: ne da ema asigisu be wali da hame asigi, amo amola e da ba: i galu.
And Jacob noticed that Laban was not acting friendly toward him as he had done before.
3 Amalalu, Hina Gode da ema amane sia: i, “Dia ada amola dia fi dunu ilia sogega buhagima. Na da di sigi masunu.”
Then Yahweh said to Jacob, “Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will help you there.”
4 Amaiba: le, Ya: igobe da La: isele amola Lia amo ela da gisi odagiaba sogebi amo ganodini ea sibi gilisili dialebe ba: i, amoga e yosia: musa: misa: ne sia: i.
So Jacob sent a message to Rachel and Leah, telling them to come out to the pastures where his flocks of sheep and goats were.
5 E da elama amane sia: i, “Alia ada da ea musa: hou fisili, wali nama hame asigisa, na da ba: i dagoi. Be na ada ea Gode da na fidimusa: lelu.
When they arrived, he said to them, “I see that your father does not act friendly toward me as he did previously. But God, whom my father worshiped, has helped me.
6 Alia dawa: ! Na da na gasa huluane amoga dia ada ea hawa: hamosu.
You two know that I have worked very hard for your father,
7 Be e da nama ogogoi. Amola e da na muni logo nabuane afadenei. Be Gode da fidibiba: le, e da na hame wadela: lesi.
but many times [HYP] he has cheated me by decreasing my wages. But God has not allowed him to harm me.
8 La: iba: ne da, ‘Daginisisi gadofo goudi da dia bidi lamu gala’ amo sia: noba, goudi huluane da daginisisi agoane lalelegei. Amola e da, ‘gadofo fifi hamoi goudi amola da dia bidi lamu gala’ amo sia: noba, goudi huluane da gadofo fifi agoane ba: i.
When Laban said, ‘The speckled animals are the ones that I will give you to be your wages,’ then all the animals gave birth to young ones that were speckled. When he changed and said, ‘The ones that have black and white stripes on them will be your wages,’ then all the animals gave birth to young ones that were striped.
9 Gode da dia ada gebo fi huluane fadegale, nama i dagoi.
In that way, God has taken away the livestock that belonged to your father and has given them to me.
10 Eso afaega, eso amoga lai ohe fi da mano lasu hou hamosa, amo esoga na da simasia ba: i agoane, goudi gawali huluane da aseme ilima mano lama: ne hamomusa: doaga: loba, ilia huluane da fifi amola daginisisi amola hoholei agoane ba: i.
“One time, when the animals were mating, I had a dream. In my dream I [looked up and was surprised to] see that some of the male goats that were mating with the female goats had black and white stripes on them, some were speckled, and some were spotted.
11 Simasia ganodini, Gode Ea a: igele dunu da nama amane sia: i, ‘Ya: igobe!’ Na bu adole i, ‘Na wea!’
An angel who was sent by God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob!’ I replied, ‘I am here!’
12 Amalalu, E da amane sia: i, ‘Ba: le gadoma! Goudi gawali huluane da mano lasu hou hamosa, huluane da fifi amola daginisisi amola hoholei fawane. Na da La: iba: ne ea hou dima hamonana, amo Na ba: i dagoiba: le, amo hou hamoi dagoi.
He said to me, ‘Look up and you will see that all the male goats that are mating have black and white stripes on them, or are speckled or spotted. This is happening because I have seen all that Laban has done to you.
13 Na da Bedele (amoga di da igi busafugulu modale ligiagamusa: , olife susuligi sogadigili, gasa bagade Nama fa: no bobogema: ne sia: i) amo sogebi Gode esala. Wahadafa dia liligi momagele, amo soge yolesili dia sogedafa amoga buhagima.’”
I am God who appeared to you at Bethel, where you set up a stone to show that the place was holy, and you poured [olive] oil on the stone and made a solemn promise to me. So now leave this land immediately, and return to the land where you were born.’”
14 La: isele amola Lia da Ya: igobema bu adole i, “Ania ada ema ani nana liligi lamu da hamedei.
Rachel and Leah replied, “Our father will not give us anything more when he dies [RHQ].
15 Ea da ani ga fi agoane ba: sa. E da ani bidi lai dagoi amola wali e da muni huluane ani bidi lama: ne lai, amo huluane e da ha: digi dagoi.
He treats us as though we were foreigners [RHQ]! [Your working for him all these years was like a payment] that you gave him as a price for us, but we will not inherit any of that money that he got as a price for us. He has spent it all!
16 Muni amola liligi huluane amo Gode da La: iba: nema fadegai, amo huluane da ninia: amola ninia mano ilia: Di Gode Ea hamoma: ne sia: i defele hamoma.”
Surely all of the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you to do!”
17 Amalalu Ya: igobe da ea liligi huluane momagele, ea ada ea diasu Ga: ina: ne soge ganodini amoga buhagimusa: momagei. E da ea mano huluane amola ea uda ga: mele da: iya fila heda: ma: ne sia: i. Ea sibi amola ea goudi gilisisu, e bisima: ne sefasi. E da liligi huluane e da Mesoubouda: imia sogega lai, amo gaguli asi.
Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels.
He made all his livestock go ahead of him. Besides the livestock, he took along all the other things that he had acquired while living in Paddan-Aram. And they prepared to return to his father Isaac, in the Canaan region.
19 La: iba: ne da ea sibi hinabo damumusa: asi dagoi ba: i. La: isele da ea ada ea loboga hamoi ogogosu ‘gode’ liligi amo wamolai.
Before they left, while Laban was shearing his sheep, Rachel stole the [small wooden] idols [that were in her father’s tent].
20 Ya: igobe amola da La: iba: nema ogogoi. E da hobea: i be La: iba: ne hame adoi.
Furthermore, Jacob deceived Laban, who belonged to the Aram people-group, by not telling him that they were planning to leave.
21 Amaiba: le, ea liligi huluane gaguli, e da hobea: i. E da Iufala: idisi Hano degele, Gilia: de goumi soge amoga doaga: musa: asi.
So Jacob and his family fled with all their possessions, and they crossed the Euphrates River, and then started traveling south toward the hilly Gilead region.
22 Eso udiana asili, La: iba: ne da Ya: igobe ea hobea: i nabi.
On the third day after they left, someone told Laban that Jacob and his family had left.
23 E da ea fi dunu sigi asili, eso fesuale fa: no bobogele, Gilia: de goumi sogega, Ya: igobema doaga: i.
So he took some of his relatives with him and started to pursue Jacob. They continued walking for seven days.
24 Amalalu, La: iba: ne da simasia, Gode da ema amane sia: i, “Dawa: ma! Ya: igobema maedafa baduguma!”
Then God appeared to Laban in a dream at night, and said to him, “When you catch up to Jacob, be sure that you do not say anything at all [HYP] to him in an angry manner!”
25 La: iba: ne da Ya: igobema doaga: loba, Ya: igobe da ea abula diasu Gilia: de goumi soge amo ganodini gagui dialebe ba: i. La: iba: ne amola ea fi dunu da amoga ilia abula diasu gaguli esalu.
The next day, by the time Laban caught up with Jacob, Jacob and his household had set up their tents in the hilly Gilead region. So Laban and his relatives set up their tents there, too.
26 Amalalu, La: iba: ne da Ya: igobema amane sia: i, “Di da abuliba: le nama ogogoi, amola na uda mano amo uda da gasawane gegei ganodini suguli lai defele, hiouginana asi dagoi.
Then Laban went to Jacob and said to him, “Why have you done this? You have deceived me by carrying away my daughters as though you had captured them in a war [MTY]!
27 Abuli nama ogogole, mae adole udigili hobea: i. Di da nama adole ba: loba, na da di hahawane asigi gesami hea: su amola sani baidama amola eno liligi dusa asili, di asunasila: loba.
Why did you run away and deceive me? Why did you not tell me that you were going to leave, so that we could have rejoiced and sung while people played music on tambourines and harps before I said ‘goodbye’ to you?
28 Di udigili hobea: iba: le, na mano amola na aowa asigibio nonogomu da hamedei ba: i. Amo da gagaoui hou di da hamoi.
(You did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye before they left!/Why did you not allow me to kiss my grandchildren and daughters goodbye before they left?) [RHQ] What you have done was foolish!
29 Na da di wadela: musa: gasa gala. Be aya gasia Gode da nama sisasu. E da di mae badugama: ne, nama sia: i.
My relatives and I have the power to harm you, but last night the God whom your father worships said to me in a dream, ‘Be sure that you do not say anything at all to Jacob in an angry way.’
30 Di da dia sogedafa amoga buhagimu hanaiba: le fisili asi, amo na dawa: Be di da abuliba: le na fi loboga hamoi ‘gode’ liligi wamolabala?”
Now, I know you have left because you long to go back home. But why did you steal my [wooden] idols?”
31 Ya: igobe da bu adole i, “Di da dia uda mano amo bu samogesa: besa: le, na hobea: i.
Jacob replied to Laban, saying, “I did not tell you that we were planning to leave, because I was afraid. I thought that [if I told you], you would forcefully take your daughters away from me.
32 Be nowa da dia loboga hamoi ‘gode’ liligi wamolai, amo ninia da fane legemu. Wali ninia fi dunu da ba: su dunu esala. Di hogoi helema. Adi liligi da dia liligi ba: sea, defea, bu lama.” La: isele da La: iba: ne ea ‘gode’ liligi wamolai, amo Ya: igobe da hame dawa: i galu.
But if you find anyone here who has your wooden idols, we will execute that person. While our relatives are watching, search for yourself to see if there is anything that belongs to you that is here with me. If you find anything, you can take it!” When Jacob said that, he did not know that Rachel had stolen the wooden idols.
33 La: iba: ne da asili, Ya: igobe ea abula diasu ganodini hogoi. Amalalu, e da Lia abula diasuga asi, amola udigili hawa: hamosu uda aduna amo ela diasu. Be ea ‘gode’ liligi hame ba: i. Amalalu, e da La: isele ea diasuga asi.
Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and then into Leah’s tent, and then into the tents of the two female slaves and searched for the idols, but he did not find them. After he left their tents, he entered Rachel’s tent.
34 La: isele da amo ‘gode’ liligi lale, ga: mele ea baligiga legesu esa amo ganodini salawane, amo da: iya fi galu. La: iba: ne da abula diasu huluane hogoi helele, hame ba: i.
But Rachel had previously taken the idols and put them in the saddle of a camel, and she was sitting on the saddle. So when Laban searched all over for them inside Rachel’s tent, he did not find them.
35 La: isele da ea adama amane sia: i, “Ada! Nama mae ougima! Na da wa: legadomu gogolei galebe. Na da oubiga sioi fi galebe,” e ogogole amane sia: i. La: iba: ne da hogoi helele, be ea loboga hamoi ‘gode’ hame ba: i.
Rachel said to her father, “Do not be angry with me, sir, but I cannot get up in your presence [to show respect for you], because I am having my monthly menstrual period. [EUP]” So when Laban searched some more, he did not find the [wooden] idols.
36 Amalalu, Ya: igobe da mi hanai galu. E ougili amane sia: i, “Na da adi wadela: i hou hamobela: ? Na da adi sema fibiba: le, di da nama benea ahoasu dunu defele nama se bobogebela: ?
Then Jacob became angry. He rebuked Laban, saying, “What crime did I commit? For what sin that I committed have you pursued me?
37 Di da na liligi ganodini hogoi helebeba: le, dia liligi ba: bela: ? Amai galea, gadili ligisili, dia dunu amola na dunu da fofada: lalu, ninia da moloidafa dunu ba: mu.
Now you have searched through all my possessions, and what did you find from all these possessions that belongs to you? Put it here in front of my relatives and your relatives, so that they can decide who is right, you or me!
38 Na da wali ode 20 agoane, dia hawa: hamosu. Dia sibi amola dia goudi da mano bagohame lai dagoi. Sibi gawali dia sibi gilisisu amo ganodini esalebe, na da hamedafa mai.
I was with you for 20 years. In all that time, your sheep and goats have (not miscarried/always given birth to animals safely). I have not [killed and] eaten any rams from your flocks.
39 Sibi da gasonasu ohe fi amoga medole legei ba: loba, na da nisu dabe i. Na da na hou dodofemusa: amo medole legei liligi dima hame gaguli misi. Esoga o gasi ganodini, liligi wamolai ba: loba, di da nama fawane dabe lai dagoi.
When one of your animals was attacked and mauled/killed by a wild animal, I did not bring it to you. I replaced the dead animal with a living one of my own animals. Whenever one of your animals was stolen, during the day or during the night, you demanded that I replace it with one of my own animals.
40 Eso bagohame na da se nabi. Esoga eso gia: i bagade amola gasi ganodini anegagi. Na da golamu gogolei.
I suffered from the heat during the day and from the cold at night. I was often not even able to sleep [PRS]!
41 Amo hou da ode 20 agoane na da dia sogega esalu, agoaiwane ba: i. Ode 14 na da dia uda mano aduna bidi lama: ne udigili hawa: hamosu. Ode 6 amoga na da dia lai gebo gilisisu ouligisu. Na da na sibi amola goudi gilisisu lama: ne hawa: hamosu. Di amola da amo ganodini na bidi nabuane agoane afadenei.
I lived in your household for 20 years. I worked for you for 14 years to buy your two daughters, and for six more years to buy some of your sheep and goats. During that time, you changed and reduced my wages many times [HYP].
42 Na ada A: ibalaha: me amola Aisage ela Gode da na hame fidi ganiaba, di da na udigili bidi mae lalewane asunasila: loba. Be Gode da na se nabasu amola na hawa: hamosu ba: i dagoi. Aya gasia E da dima gagabole sia: ne, Ea fofada: su hamoi dima olelei dagoi.”
If God, the one whom my grandfather Abraham worshiped and before whom my father Isaac trembled in fear, had not been with me and helped me, you would have sent me away (with nothing in my hands/owning nothing)! But God saw how much I was suffering and how hard I was working, so last night he told you that what you have done to me was wrong.”
43 La: iba: ne da Ya: igobema bu adole i, “Amo uda da na mano esala. Ilia manolali da na manolali. Lai gebo gilisisu huluane guiguda: goe da na: Liligi huluane di guiguda: ba: sa, amo da na liligi. Be na da na mano amola ilia mano gagumusa: hamedei ba: sa.
Laban replied, “These two women are my daughters, and their children are my grandchildren, and the animals are my animals. Everything you see here is mine [HYP]! But what can I do today to keep my daughters or the children they have given birth to [RHQ]?
44 Amaiba: le, na da dima gousa: su hamomu gala. Ninia amo mae gogolema: ne, igi gilisili bi ilegele hamomu da defea.”
I cannot do anything in order to keep them, so hey, we should make a peace agreement, you and I, and do something that will remind us about our agreement.”
45 Amaiba: le, Ya: igobe da igi afae lale, wanonesisu hamoma: ne ligisi.
So Jacob took a [large] stone and set it on its end.
46 Ea sia: beba: le, ea dunu da igi eno gilisili, bi hamoi. Amalalu, amo igi gilisi bi dafulili, ilia da lolo mai.
Then Jacob said to his relatives, “You also gather some stones.” So they gathered some rocks and put them in a heap, and they ate some food there near the heap.
47 La: iba: ne da amo igi bi dio asuli amo Yiga Sa: ihaduda. Ya: igobe da amo igi bi dio eno asuli amo Ga: liede. (Hibulu sia: - Mae Gogolema: ne Bi Gagui).
Laban gave the heap the Aramaic name Jegar-Sahadutha, [which means ‘rock-pile to remind us’, ] but Jacob gave the rock-pile the Hebrew name Galeed, [which has the same meaning].
48 La: iba: ne da Ya: igobema amane sia: i, “Amo igi bi da anima mae gogolema: ne ilegei dialumu.” Amaiba: le, amo sogebi ea dio da Ga: liede.
Laban said to Jacob, “This pile of rocks we have put here today will help us to remember our agreement.” That is why Jacob called it Galeed.
49 La: iba: ne da eno amane sia: i, “Ania da afafamuba: le, Gode da ani noga: le ba: mu da defea.” Amaiba: le, amo sogebi dio eno da Misiba. (Ba: su Sogebi).
They also named the place Mizpah, [which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘watchtower’, ] because Laban said, “We will ask Yahweh to watch you and me while we are separated from each other, [so that we do not try to harm each other].
50 La: iba: ne e da amane sia: i, “Di da na uda mano wadela: lesisia o eno uda lasea, ania da afafamuba: le na da hame dawa: mu. Be mae gogolema. Gode da ani ba: lala.
If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take other women to be your wives, even if no one tells me about it, don’t forget that God sees what you and I are doing!”
51 Igi bi na hamoi da goea. Amola amo da mae gogolema: ne igi diala.
Laban also said to Jacob, “You see this large stone and this pile of rocks that we have set up to be between us.
52 Amo igi bi amola igi ilegei da agoane olelesa. Na da di doagala: musa: masea, amo igi bi baligimu da sema bagade. Amola di da nama doagala: musa: ahoasea, amo baligimu da sema bagade.
Both this pile of rocks and this large stone will remind us, that I will not go past these rocks to harm you, and you will not go past these rocks to harm me.
53 A: ibalaha: me ea Gode amola Na: iho ea Gode da anima fofada: su dunu esala.” Amalalu Ya: igobe da Gode (Ema ea eda Aisage da nodone sia: ne gadosu) amo Ea Dioba: le, amo sema noga: le dawa: ma: ne, dafawane ilegele sia: i.
We will ask the God whom [your grandfather] Abraham and [his father] Nahor worshiped to punish [MTY] either one of us, [if we harm the other one].” So Jacob solemnly promised to do what they said in their peace agreement. And he asked God, the one before whom his father Isaac trembled, to listen to what they promised.
54 E da ohe afae fane, gobele salasu hou amo goumia hamone, ea fi dunu amo lolo moma: ne sia: i. Ha: i nanu, ilia amo gasia goumi da: iya esalu.
He offered a sacrifice to God there in the hilly area, and he invited his relatives to eat with him. After they had eaten, they slept there that night.
55 Hahabedafa, La: iba: ne da ea aowa huluane amola ea uda mano ilima asigibio nonogonanu, hi diasuga buhagimusa: fisili asi.
The next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters [goodbye] and asked God to bless them. Then he [and his men] left them and returned home.
