Genesis 31

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.”

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

2 Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not towards him as before.

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

3 The LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

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

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

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

5 and said to them, “I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not towards me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

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

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

٦ أَنْتُمَا تَعْلَمَانِ أَنَّنِي خَدَمْتُ أَبَاكُمَا بِكُلِّ قُوَايَ.

7 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

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

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.

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

9 Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.

٩ لَقَدْ سَلَبَ اللهُ مَوَاشِي أَبِيكُمَا وَأَعْطَانِي إِيَّاهَا.

10 During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leapt on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.

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

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

١١ وَقَالَ لِي مَلاكُ اللهِ فِي الْحُلْمِ: يَا يَعْقُوبُ،

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.

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

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.’”

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

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

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

15 Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.

١٥ أَلَمْ يُعَامِلْنَا كَأَجْنَبِيَّتَيْنِ لأَنَّهُ بَاعَنَا وَأَكَلَ ثَمَنَنَا أَيْضاً؟

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.”

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

17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

١٧ فَقَامَ يَعْقُوبُ وَحَمَلَ أَوْلادَهُ وَنِسَاءَهُ عَلَى الْجِمَالِ،

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.

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

19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

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

20 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.

٢٠ وَكَذَلِكَ خَدَعَ يَعْقُوبُ لابَانَ الأَرَامِيَّ فَلَمْ يُخْبِرْهُ بِقَرَارِهِ

21 So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face towards the mountain of Gilead.

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

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

٢٢ فَأُخْبِرَ لابَانُ فِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّالِثِ أَنَّ يَعْقُوبَ قَدْ هَرَبَ.

23 He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

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

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.”

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

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.

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

26 Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

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

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;

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

28 and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.

٢٨ وَلَمْ تَدَعْنِي أُقَبِّلُ أَحْفَادِي وَابْنَتَيَّ؟ إِنَّكَ بِغَبَاوَةٍ تَصَرَّفْتَ.

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.’

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

30 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

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

31 Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’

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

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.

٣٢ 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

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

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.

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

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 labour of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”

٤٢ 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».

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?

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

44 Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”

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

45 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

٤٥ فَأَخَذَ يَعْقُوبُ حَجَراً وَنَصَبَهُ عَمُوداً،

46 Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

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

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

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

48 Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed

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

49 and Mizpah, for he said, “The LORD watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

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

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.”

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

51 Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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