Genesis 31
1 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."
Postquam autem audivit verba filiorum Laban dicentium: Tulit Iacob omnia quæ fuerunt patris nostri, et de illius facultate ditatus, factus est inclytus:
2 Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and look, it was not as it had been.
animadvertit quoque faciem Laban, quod non esset erga se sicut heri et nudiustertius,
3 Then God said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
maxime dicente sibi Domino: Revertere in terram patrum tuorum, et ad generationem tuam, eroque tecum.
4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flock was,
Misit, et vocavit Rachel et Liam in agrum, ubi pascebat greges,
5 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.
dixitque eis: Video faciem patris vestri quod non sit erga me sicut heri, et nudiustertius: Deus autem patris mei fuit mecum.
6 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
Et ipsæ nostis quod totis viribus meis servierim patri vestro.
7 Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt 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 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.
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 Thus God has taken away your father's livestock and given them to me.
Tulitque Deus substantiam patris vestri, et dedit mihi.
10 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.
Postquam enim conceptus ovium tempus advenerat, levavi oculos meos, et vidi in somnis ascendentes mares super feminas, varios et maculosos, et diversorum colorum.
11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'
Dixitque angelus Dei ad me in somnis: Iacob? Et ego respondi: Adsum.
12 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.
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 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.'"
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 Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
Responderuntque Rachel et Lia: Numquid habemus residui quidquam in facultatibus, et hereditate domus patris nostri?
15 Aren't we regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has used up what was paid for us.
Nonne quasi alienas reputavit nos, et vendidit, comeditque pretium nostrum?
16 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."
Sed Deus tulit opes patris nostri, et eas tradidit nobis, ac filiis nostris: unde omnia quæ præcepit tibi Deus, fac.
17 Then Jacob got up and put his sons and his wives on the camels,
Surrexit itaque Iacob, et impositis liberis, ac coniugibus suis super camelos, abiit.
18 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.
Tulitque omnem substantiam suam, et greges, et quidquid in Mesopotamia acquisierat, pergens ad Isaac patrem suum in terram Chanaan.
19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father.
Eo tempore ierat Laban ad tondendas oves, et Rachel furata est idola patris sui.
20 Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he intended to flee.
Noluitque Iacob confiteri socero suo quod fugeret.
21 So he fled with everything that he had, and he arose and crossed the River, and set out toward the hill country of Gilead.
Cumque abiisset tam ipse quam omnia quæ iuris sui erant, et amne transmisso pergeret contra montem Galaad,
22 Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
nunciatum est Laban die tertio quod fugeret Iacob.
23 He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him for seven days, and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.
Qui, assumptis fratribus suis, persecutus est eum diebus septem: et comprehendit eum in Monte Galaad.
24 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."
Viditque in somnis dicentem sibi Deum: Cave ne quidquam aspere loquaris contra Iacob.
25 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.
Iamque Iacob extenderat in monte tabernaculum: cumque ille consecutus fuisset eum cum fratribus suis, in eodem Monte Galaad fixit tentorium.
26 Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done? You have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives taken in war?
Et dixit ad Iacob: Quare ita egisti, ut clam me abigeres filias meas quasi captivas gladio?
27 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.
Cur ignorante me fugere voluisti, nec indicare mihi, ut prosequerer te cum gaudio, et canticis, et tympanis, et citharis?
28 And you did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.
Non es passus ut oscularer filios meos et filias: stulte operatus es: et nunc quidem
29 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.'
valet manus mea reddere tibi malum: sed Deus patris vestri heri dixit mihi: Cave ne loquaris contra Iacob quidquam durius.
30 Now you have indeed gone away, because you longed greatly for your father's house. But why have you stolen my gods?"
Esto, ad tuos ire cupiebas, et desiderio erat tibi domus patris tui: cur furatus es deos meos?
31 Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.'
Respondit Iacob: Quod inscio te profectus sum, timui ne violenter auferres filias tuas.
32 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.
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 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.
Ingressus itaque Laban tabernaculum Iacob et Liæ, et utriusque famulæ, non invenit. Cumque intrasset tentorium Rachelis,
34 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.
illa festinans abscondit idola subter stramenta cameli, et sedit desuper: scrutantique omne tentorium, et nihil invenienti,
35 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.
ait: Ne irascatur dominus meus quod coram te assurgere nequeo: quia iuxta consuetudinem feminarum nunc accidit mihi. sic delusa solicitudo quærentis est.
36 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?
Tumensque Iacob, cum iurgio ait: Quam ob culpam meam, et ob quod peccatum meum sic exarsisti post me,
37 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.
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 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.
Idcirco viginti annis fui tecum? oves tuæ et capræ steriles non fuerunt, arietes gregis tui non comedi:
39 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.
nec captum a bestia ostendi tibi, ego damnum omne reddebam: quidquid furto peribat, a me exigebas:
40 I was consumed by the heat during the day and by the frost at night, and sleepless nights.
die noctuque æstu urebar, et gelu, fugiebatque somnus ab oculis meis.
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.
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 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."
Nisi Deus patris mei Abraham, et timor Isaac affuisset mihi, forsitan modo nudum me demisisses: afflictionem meam et laborem manuum mearum respexit Deus, et arguit te heri.
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: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
Respondit ei Laban: Filiæ meæ et filii, et greges tui, et omnia quæ cernis, mea sunt: quid possum facere filiis et nepotibus meis?
44 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."
Veni ergo, et ineamus fœdus: ut sit in testimonium inter me et te.
45 Jacob took a stone and set it up as a standing-stone.
Tulit itaque Iacob lapidem, et erexit illum in titulum:
46 Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." So they took stones and made a mound. They ate there by the mound.
dixitque fratribus suis: Afferte lapides. Qui congregantes fecerunt tumulum, comederuntque super eum:
47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
quem vocavit Laban Tumulum testis: et Iacob, Acervum testimonii, uterque iuxta proprietatem linguæ suæ.
48 Laban said, "This mound is a witness between me and you today." Therefore it was named Galeed
Dixitque Laban: Tumulus iste erit testis inter me et te hodie, et idcirco appellatum est nomen eius Galaad, id est, Tumulus testis.
49 and Mizpah, for he said, "God watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
Intueatur et iudicet Dominus inter nos quando recesserimus a nobis,
50 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."
si afflixeris filias meas, et si introduxeris alias uxores super eas: nullus sermonis nostri testis est absque Deo, qui præsens respicit.
51 Laban said to Jacob, "See this mound, and see the standing-stone, which I have set between me and you.
Dixitque rursus ad Iacob: En tumulus hic, et lapis quem erexi inter me et te,
52 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.
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, the God of their father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore 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 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.
immolatisque victimis in monte, vocavit fratres suos ut ederent panem. Qui cum comedissent, manserunt ibi.
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.
Laban vero de nocte consurgens, osculatus est filios, et filias suas, et benedixit illis: reversusque est in locum suum.
