Genesis 31
1 Postquam autem audivit verba filiorum Laban dicentium: Tulit Iacob omnia quæ fuerunt patris nostri, et de illius facultate ditatus, factus est inclytus:
Now Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, that they said, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and it is from our father's possessions that he has gotten all this wealth.”
2 animadvertit quoque faciem Laban, quod non esset erga se sicut heri et nudiustertius,
Jacob saw the look on Laban's face. He saw that his attitude toward him had changed.
3 maxime dicente sibi Domino: Revertere in terram patrum tuorum, et ad generationem tuam, eroque tecum.
Then Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
4 Misit, et vocavit Rachel et Liam in agrum, ubi pascebat greges,
Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock
5 dixitque eis: Video faciem patris vestri quod non sit erga me sicut heri, et nudiustertius: Deus autem patris mei fuit mecum.
and said to them, “I see your father's attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.
6 Et ipsæ nostis quod totis viribus meis servierim patri vestro.
You know that it is with all my strength that I have served your father.
7 Sed et pater vester circumvenit me, et mutavit mercedem meam decem vicibus: et tamen non dimisit eum Deus ut noceret mihi.
Your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not permitted him to hurt me.
8 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.
If he said, 'The speckled animals will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled young. If he said, 'The striped will be your wages,' then the whole flock bore striped young.
9 Tulitque Deus substantiam patris vestri, et dedit mihi.
In this way God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.
10 Postquam enim conceptus ovium tempus advenerat, levavi oculos meos, et vidi in somnis ascendentes mares super feminas, varios et maculosos, et diversorum colorum.
Once at the time of breeding season, I saw in a dream the male goats that were mating with the flock. The male goats were striped, speckled, and spotted.
11 Dixitque Angelus Dei ad me in somnis: Iacob? Et ego respondi: Adsum.
The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob.' I said, 'Here I am.'
12 Qui ait: Leva oculos tuos, et vide universos masculos ascendentes super feminas, varios, maculosos, atque respersos. Vidi enim omnia quæ fecit tibi Laban.
He said, 'Lift up your eyes and see all the male goats that are breeding with the flock. They are striped, speckled, and spotted, for I have seen everything that Laban is doing to you.
13 Ego sum Deus Bethel, ubi unxisti lapidem, et votum vovisti mihi. Nunc ergo surge, et egredere de terra hac, revertens in terram nativitatis tuæ.
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you made a vow to me. Now rise up and leave this land and return to the land of your birth.'”
14 Responderuntque Rachel et Lia: Numquid habemus residui quidquam in facultatibus, et hereditate domus patris nostri?
Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, “Is there any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
15 Nonne quasi alienas reputavit nos, et vendidit, comeditque pretium nostrum?
Are we not treated by him as foreigners? For he has sold us and has also completely devoured our money.
16 Sed Deus tulit opes patris nostri, et eas tradidit nobis, ac filiis nostris: unde omnia quæ præcepit tibi Deus, fac.
For all the riches that God has taken away from our father are now ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do it.”
17 Surrexit itaque Iacob, et impositis liberis, ac coniugibus suis super camelos, abiit.
Then Jacob arose and placed his sons and his wives upon the camels.
18 Tulitque omnem substantiam suam, et greges, et quidquid in Mesopotamia acquisierat, pergens ad Isaac patrem suum in terram Chanaan.
He drove all his livestock ahead of him, along with all his property, including the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram. Then he set out to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.
19 Eo tempore ierat Laban ad tondendas oves, et Rachel furata est idola patris sui.
When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household gods.
20 Noluitque Iacob confiteri socero suo quod fugeret.
Jacob also deceived Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he was leaving.
21 Cumque abiisset tam ipse quam omnia quæ iuris sui erant, et amne transmisso pergeret contra Montem Galaad,
So he fled with all that he had and quickly passed over the River, and headed toward the hill country of Gilead.
22 nunciatum est Laban die tertio quod fugeret Iacob.
On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled.
23 Qui, assumptis fratribus suis, persecutus est eum diebus septem: et comprehendit eum in Monte Galaad.
So he took his relatives with him and pursued him for a seven days' journey. He overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
24 Viditque in somnis dicentem sibi Deum: Cave ne quidquam aspere loquaris contra Iacob.
Now God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.”
25 Iamque Iacob extenderat in monte tabernaculum: cumque ille consecutus fuisset eum cum fratribus suis, in eodem Monte Galaad fixit tentorium.
Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country. Laban also camped with his relatives in the hill country of Gilead.
26 Et dixit ad Iacob: Quare ita egisti, ut clam me abigeres filias meas quasi captivas gladio?
Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you deceived me and carried away my daughters like prisoners of war?
27 Cur ignorante me fugere voluisti, nec indicare mihi, ut prosequerer te cum gaudio, et canticis, et tympanis, et citharis?
Why did you flee secretly and trick me and did not tell me? I would have sent you away with celebration and with songs, with tambourine and with harps.
28 Non es passus ut oscularer filios meos et filias: stulte operatus es: et nunc quidem
You did not allow me to kiss my grandsons and my daughters good bye. Now you have done foolishly.
29 valet manus mea reddere tibi malum: sed Deus patris vestri heri dixit mihi: Cave ne loquaris contra Iacob quidquam durius.
It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night and said, 'Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.'
30 Esto, ad tuos ire cupiebas, et desiderio erat tibi domus patris tui: cur furatus es deos meos?
Now you have gone away because you longed to return to your father's house. But why did you steal my gods?”
31 Respondit Iacob: Quod inscio te profectus sum, timui ne violenter auferres filias tuas.
Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid and thought that you would take your daughters from me by force I left secretly.
32 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.
Whoever has stolen your gods will not continue to live. In the presence of our relatives, identify whatever with me is yours and take it.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
33 Ingressus itaque Laban tabernaculum Iacob et Liæ, et utriusque famulæ, non invenit. Cumque intrasset tentorium Rachelis,
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.
34 illa festinans abscondit idola subter stramenta cameli, et sedit desuper: scrutantique omne tentorium, et nihil invenienti,
Now Rachel had taken the household gods, put them in a camel's saddle, and sat upon them. Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.
35 ait: Ne irascatur dominus meus quod coram te assurgere nequeo: quia iuxta consuetudinem feminarum nunc accidit mihi. Sic delusa solicitudo quærentis est.
She said to her father, “Do not be angry, my master, that I cannot stand up before you, for I am having my period.” So he searched but did not find his household gods.
36 Tumensque Iacob, cum iurgio ait: Quam ob culpam meam, et ob quod peccatum meum sic exarsisti post me,
Jacob was angry and argued with Laban. He said to him, “What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?
37 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.
For you have searched all my possessions. What have you found of all your household goods? Set them here before our relatives, so that they may judge between us two.
38 Idcirco viginti annis fui tecum? oves tuæ et capræ steriles non fuerunt, arietes gregis tui non comedi:
For twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten any rams from your flocks.
39 nec captum a bestia ostendi tibi, ego damnum omne reddebam: quidquid furto peribat, a me exigebas:
What was torn by beasts I did not bring to you. Instead, I bore the loss of it. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
40 die noctuque æstu urebar, et gelu, fugiebatque somnus ab oculis meis.
There I was; in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night; and I went without sleep.
41 Sicque per viginti annos in domo tua servivi tibi, quatuordecim pro filiabus, et sex pro gregibus tuis: immutasti quoque mercedem meam decem vicibus.
These twenty years I have been in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock. You have changed my wages ten times.
42 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.
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the one Isaac fears, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my oppression and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night.”
43 Respondit ei Laban: Filiæ meæ et filii, et greges tui, et omnia quæ cernis, mea sunt: quid possum facere filiis et nepotibus meis?
Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the grandchildren are my grandchildren, and the flocks are my flocks. All that you see is mine. But what can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
44 Veni ergo, et ineamus fœdus: ut sit in testimonium inter me et te.
So now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be for a witness between you and me.”
45 Tulit itaque Iacob lapidem, et erexit illum in titulum:
So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
46 dixitque fratribus suis: Afferte lapides. Qui congregantes fecerunt tumulum, comederuntque super eum:
Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” So they took stones and made a pile. Then they ate there by the pile.
47 quem vocavit Laban Tumulum Testis: et Iacob, Acervum Testimonii, uterque iuxta proprietatem linguæ suæ.
Laban called it Jegar Saha Dutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
48 Dixitque Laban: Tumulus iste erit testis inter me et te hodie: et idcirco appellatum est nomen eius Galaad, id est, Tumulus Testis.
Laban said, “This pile is a witness between me and you today.” Therefore its name was called Galeed.
49 Intueatur et iudicet Dominus inter nos quando recesserimus a nobis,
It is also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May Yahweh watch between you and me, when we are out of sight one from another.
50 si afflixeris filias meas, et si introduxeris alias uxores super eas: nullus sermonis nostri testis est absque Deo, qui præsens respicit.
If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take any wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, see, God is witness between you and me.”
51 Dixitque rursus ad Iacob: En tumulus hic, et lapis quem erexi inter me et te,
Laban said to Jacob, “Look at this pile, and look at the pillar, which I have set between you and me.
52 testis erit: tumulus, inquam, iste et lapis sint in testimonium, si aut ego transiero illum pergens ad te, aut tu præterieris, malum mihi cogitans.
This pile is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this pile to you, and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to me, to do harm.
53 Deus Abraham, et Deus Nachor iudicet inter nos, Deus patris eorum. Iuravit ergo Iacob per timorem patris sui Isaac:
May the God of Abraham, and the god of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us.” Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
54 immolatisque victimis in monte, vocavit fratres suos ut ederent panem. Qui cum comedissent, manserunt ibi.
Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his relatives to eat a meal. They ate and spent the entire night on the mountain.
55 Laban vero de nocte consurgens, osculatus est filios, et filias suas, et benedixit illis: reversusque est in locum suum.
Early in the morning Laban got up, kissed his grandsons and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home.
