Genesis 31
1 And he hears the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken all that our father has; indeed, from that which our father has, he has made all this glory”;
Postquam autem audivit verba filiorum Laban dicentium: Tulit Iacob omnia quæ fuerunt patris nostri, et de illius facultate ditatus, factus est inclytus:
2 and Jacob sees the face of Laban, and behold, it is not with him as before.
animadvertit quoque faciem Laban, quod non esset erga se sicut heri et nudiustertius,
3 And YHWH says to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your family, and I am with you.”
maxime dicente sibi Domino: Revertere in terram patrum tuorum, et ad generationem tuam, eroque tecum.
4 And Jacob sends and calls for Rachel and for Leah to the field to his flock;
Misit, et vocavit Rachel et Liam in agrum, ubi pascebat greges,
5 and says to them, “I am beholding your father’s face—that it is not toward me as before, and the God of my father has been with me,
dixitque eis: Video faciem patris vestri quod non sit erga me sicut heri, et nudiustertius: Deus autem patris mei fuit mecum.
6 and you have known that with all my power I have served your father,
Et ipsæ nostis quod totis viribus meis servierim patri vestro.
7 and your father has played on me, and has changed my hire ten times; and God has not permitted him to do evil with me.
Sed et pater vester circumvenit me, et mutavit mercedem meam decem vicibus: et tamen non dimisit eum Deus ut noceret mihi.
8 If he says thus: The speckled are your hire, then all the flock bore speckled ones; and if he says thus: The striped are your hire, then all the flock bore striped;
Si quando dixit: Variæ erunt mercedes tuæ: pariebant omnes oves varios fœtus. Quando vero econtrario ait: Alba quæque accipies pro mercede: omnes greges alba pepererunt.
9 and God takes away the substance of your father, and gives to me.
Tulitque Deus substantiam patris vestri, et dedit mihi.
10 And it comes to pass at the time of the flock conceiving, that I lift up my eyes and see in a dream, and behold, the male goats, which are going up on the flock, [are] striped, speckled, and spotted;
Postquam enim conceptus ovium tempus advenerat, levavi oculos meos, et vidi in somnis ascendentes mares super feminas, varios et maculosos, et diversorum colorum.
11 and the Messenger of God says to me in the dream, Jacob, and I say, Here I [am].
Dixitque Angelus Dei ad me in somnis: Iacob? Et ego respondi: Adsum.
12 And He says, Now lift up your eyes and see [that] all the male goats which are going up on the flock [are] striped, speckled, and spotted, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you;
Qui ait: Leva oculos tuos, et vide universos masculos ascendentes super feminas, varios, maculosos, atque respersos. Vidi enim omnia quæ fecit tibi Laban.
13 I [am] the God of Bethel where you have anointed a standing pillar, where you have vowed a vow to me; now, arise, go out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.”
Ego sum Deus Bethel, ubi unxisti lapidem, et votum vovisti mihi. Nunc ergo surge, et egredere de terra hac, revertens in terram nativitatis tuæ.
14 And Rachel answers—Leah also—and says to him, “Have we yet a portion and inheritance in the house of our father?
Responderuntque Rachel et Lia: Numquid habemus residui quidquam in facultatibus, et hereditate domus patris nostri?
15 Have we not been reckoned strangers to him? For he has sold us, and he also utterly consumes our money;
Nonne quasi alienas reputavit nos, et vendidit, comeditque pretium nostrum?
16 for all the wealth which God has taken away from our father, it [is] ours, and our children’s; and now, all that God has said to you—do.”
Sed Deus tulit opes patris nostri, et eas tradidit nobis, ac filiis nostris: unde omnia quæ præcepit tibi Deus, fac.
17 And Jacob rises, and lifts up his sons and his wives on the camels,
Surrexit itaque Iacob, et impositis liberis, ac coniugibus suis super camelos, abiit.
18 and leads all his livestock, and all his substance which he has acquired, the livestock of his getting, which he has acquired in Padan-Aram, to go to his father Isaac, to the land of Canaan.
Tulitque omnem substantiam suam, et greges, et quidquid in Mesopotamia acquisierat, pergens ad Isaac patrem suum in terram Chanaan.
19 And Laban has gone to shear his flock, and Rachel steals the teraphim which her father has;
Eo tempore ierat Laban ad tondendas oves, et Rachel furata est idola patris sui.
20 and Jacob deceives the heart of Laban the Aramean, because he has not declared to him that he is fleeing;
Noluitque Iacob confiteri socero suo quod fugeret.
21 and he flees, he and all that he has, and rises, and passes over the River, and sets his face [toward] the Mount of Gilead.
Cumque abiisset tam ipse quam omnia quæ iuris sui erant, et amne transmisso pergeret contra Montem Galaad,
22 And it is told to Laban on the third day that Jacob has fled,
nunciatum est Laban die tertio quod fugeret Iacob.
23 and he takes his brothers with him, and pursues after him a journey of seven days, and overtakes him in the Mount of Gilead.
Qui, assumptis fratribus suis, persecutus est eum diebus septem: et comprehendit eum in Monte Galaad.
24 And God comes to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night and says to him, “Take heed to yourself lest you speak with Jacob from good to evil.”
Viditque in somnis dicentem sibi Deum: Cave ne quidquam aspere loquaris contra Iacob.
25 And Laban overtakes Jacob; and Jacob has fixed his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brothers have fixed [theirs] in the Mount of Gilead.
Iamque Iacob extenderat in monte tabernaculum: cumque ille consecutus fuisset eum cum fratribus suis, in eodem Monte Galaad fixit tentorium.
26 And Laban says to Jacob, “What have you done that you deceive my heart, and lead away my daughters as captives of the sword?
Et dixit ad Iacob: Quare ita egisti, ut clam me abigeres filias meas quasi captivas gladio?
27 Why have you hidden yourself to flee, and deceive me, and have not declared to me, and I send you away with joy and with songs, with tambourine and with harp,
Cur ignorante me fugere voluisti, nec indicare mihi, ut prosequerer te cum gaudio, et canticis, et tympanis, et citharis?
28 and have not permitted me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have acted foolishly in doing [so];
Non es passus ut oscularer filios meos et filias: stulte operatus es: et nunc quidem
29 my hand is to God to do evil with you, but the God of your father last night has spoken to me, saying, Take heed to yourself from speaking with Jacob from good to evil.
valet manus mea reddere tibi malum: sed Deus patris vestri heri dixit mihi: Cave ne loquaris contra Iacob quidquam durius.
30 And now, you have certainly gone, because you have been very desirous for the house of your father; why have you stolen my gods?”
Esto, ad tuos ire cupiebas, et desiderio erat tibi domus patris tui: cur furatus es deos meos?
31 And Jacob answers and says to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, Lest you violently take away your daughters from me;
Respondit Iacob: Quod inscio te profectus sum, timui ne violenter auferres filias tuas.
32 with whomsoever you find your gods—he must not live; before our brothers discern for yourself what [is] with me, and take to yourself”: and Jacob has not known that Rachel has stolen them.
Quod 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.
33 And Laban goes into the tent of Jacob, and into the tent of Leah, and into the tent of the two handmaidens, and has not found; and he goes out from the tent of Leah, and goes into the tent of Rachel.
Ingressus itaque Laban tabernaculum Iacob et Liæ, et utriusque famulæ, non invenit. Cumque intrasset tentorium Rachelis,
34 And Rachel has taken the teraphim, and puts them in the furniture of the camel, and sits on them; and Laban feels all the tent, and has not found;
illa festinans abscondit idola subter stramenta cameli, et sedit desuper: scrutantique omne tentorium, et nihil invenienti,
35 and she says to her father, “Let it not be displeasing in the eyes of my lord that I am not able to rise at your presence, for the way of women [is] on me”; and he searches, and has not found the teraphim.
ait: Ne irascatur dominus meus quod coram te assurgere nequeo: quia iuxta consuetudinem feminarum nunc accidit mihi. Sic delusa solicitudo quærentis est.
36 And it is displeasing to Jacob, and he strives with Laban; and Jacob answers and says to Laban, “What [is] my transgression? What my sin, that you have burned after me?
Tumensque Iacob, cum iurgio ait: Quam ob culpam meam, et ob quod peccatum meum sic exarsisti post me,
37 For you have felt all my vessels: what have you found of all the vessels of your house? Set here before my brothers, and your brothers, and they decide between us both.
et scrutatus es omnem supellectilem meam? Quid invenisti de cuncta substantia domus tuæ? pone hic coram fratribus meis, et fratribus tuis, et iudicent inter me, et te.
38 These twenty years I [am] with you: your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flock I have not eaten;
Idcirco viginti annis fui tecum? oves tuæ et capræ steriles non fuerunt, arietes gregis tui non comedi:
39 the torn I have not brought to you—I repay it—from my hand you seek it; I have been deceived by day, and I have been deceived by night;
nec captum a bestia ostendi tibi, ego damnum omne reddebam: quidquid furto peribat, a me exigebas:
40 I have been [thus]: drought has consumed me in the day, and frost by night, and my sleep wanders from my eyes.
die noctuque æstu urebar, et gelu, fugiebatque somnus ab oculis meis.
41 This [is] to me twenty years in your house: I have served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock; and you change my hire ten times;
Sicque per viginti annos in domo tua servivi tibi, quatuordecim pro filiabus, et sex pro gregibus tuis: immutasti quoque mercedem meam decem vicibus.
42 unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now you had sent me away empty; God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and reproves last night.”
Nisi 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.
43 And Laban answers and says to Jacob, “The daughters [are] my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the flock my flock, and all that you are seeing [is] mine; and to my daughters—what do I to these today, or to their sons whom they have born?
Respondit ei Laban: Filiæ meæ et filii, et greges tui, et omnia quæ cernis, mea sunt: quid possum facere filiis et nepotibus meis?
44 And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and you, and it has been for a witness between me and you.”
Veni ergo, et ineamus fœdus: ut sit in testimonium inter me et te.
45 And Jacob takes a stone, and lifts it up [for] a standing pillar;
Tulit itaque Iacob lapidem, et erexit illum in titulum:
46 and Jacob says to his brothers, “Gather stones,” and they take stones, and make a heap; and they eat there on the heap;
dixitque fratribus suis: Afferte lapides. Qui congregantes fecerunt tumulum, comederuntque super eum:
47 and Laban calls it Jegar-Sahadutha; and Jacob has called it Galeed.
quem vocavit Laban Tumulum Testis: et Iacob, Acervum Testimonii, uterque iuxta proprietatem linguæ suæ.
48 And Laban says, “This heap [is] witness between me and you today”; therefore has he called its name Galeed;
Dixitque Laban: Tumulus iste erit testis inter me et te hodie: et idcirco appellatum est nomen eius Galaad, id est, Tumulus Testis.
49 Mizpah also, for he said, “YHWH watches between me and you, for we are hidden from one another;
Intueatur et iudicet Dominus inter nos quando recesserimus a nobis,
50 if you afflict my daughters, or take wives beside my daughters—there is no man with us—see, God [is] witness between me and you.”
si afflixeris filias meas, et si introduxeris alias uxores super eas: nullus sermonis nostri testis est absque Deo, qui præsens respicit.
51 And Laban says to Jacob, “Behold, this heap, and behold, the standing pillar which I have cast between me and you;
Dixitque rursus ad Iacob: En tumulus hic, et lapis quem erexi inter me et te,
52 this heap [is] witness, and the standing pillar [is] witness, that I do not pass over this heap to you, and that you do not pass over this heap and this standing pillar to me—for evil;
testis erit: tumulus, inquam, iste et lapis sint in testimonium, si aut ego transiero illum pergens ad te, aut tu præterieris, malum mihi cogitans.
53 the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, judges between us—the God of their father,” and Jacob swears by the Fear of his father Isaac.
Deus Abraham, et Deus Nachor iudicet inter nos, Deus patris eorum. Iuravit ergo Iacob per timorem patris sui Isaac:
54 And Jacob sacrifices a sacrifice on the mountain, and calls to his brothers to eat bread, and they eat bread, and lodge on the mountain;
immolatisque victimis in monte, vocavit fratres suos ut ederent panem. Qui cum comedissent, manserunt ibi.
55 and Laban rises early in the morning, and kisses his sons and his daughters, and blesses them; and Laban goes on, and turns back to his place.
Laban vero de nocte consurgens, osculatus est filios, et filias suas, et benedixit illis: reversusque est in locum suum.
