Genesis 31

1 postquam autem audivit verba filiorum Laban dicentium tulit Iacob omnia quae fuerunt patris nostri et de illius facultate ditatus factus est inclitus

And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and he has gotten all this glory of that which was our father's.

2 animadvertit quoque faciem Laban quod non esset erga se sicut heri et nudius tertius

And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime.

3 maxime dicente sibi Domino revertere in terram patrum tuorum et ad generationem tuam eroque tecum

And Jehovah said to Jacob, Return to the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.

4 misit et vocavit Rahel et Liam in agrum ubi pascebat greges

And 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 nudius tertius Deus autem patris mei fuit mecum

and said to them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime, but the God of my father has been with me.

6 et ipsae nostis quod totis viribus meis servierim patri vestro

And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

7 sed pater vester circumvenit me et mutavit mercedem meam decem vicibus et tamen non dimisit eum Deus ut noceret mihi

And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

8 si quando dixit variae erunt mercedes tuae pariebant omnes oves varios fetus quando vero e contrario ait alba quaeque accipies pro mercede omnes greges alba pepererunt

If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages, then all the flock bore speckled, and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy wages, then all the flock bore ringstreaked.

9 tulitque Deus substantiam patris vestri et dedit mihi

Thus God has taken away the cattle 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

And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled.

11 dixitque angelus Dei ad me in somnis Iacob et ego respondi adsum

And the agent of God said to me in the dream, Jacob. And I said, Here I am.

12 qui ait leva oculos tuos et vide universos masculos ascendentes super feminas varios respersos atque maculosos vidi enim omnia quae fecit tibi Laban

And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to thee.

13 ego sum Deus Bethel ubi unxisti lapidem et votum vovisti mihi nunc ergo surge et egredere de terra hac revertens in terram nativitatis tuae

I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointed a pillar, where thou vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return to the land of thy nativity.

14 responderunt Rahel et Lia numquid habemus residui quicquam in facultatibus et hereditate domus patris nostri

And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet 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 accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

16 sed Deus tulit opes patris nostri et nobis eas tradidit ac filiis nostris unde omnia quae praecepit fac

For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to thee, do.

17 surrexit itaque Iacob et inpositis liberis et coniugibus suis super camelos abiit

Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels.

18 tulitque omnem substantiam et greges et quicquid in Mesopotamiam quaesierat pergens ad Isaac patrem suum in terram Chanaan

And he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan.

19 eo tempore Laban ierat ad tondendas oves et Rahel furata est idola patris sui

Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

20 noluitque Iacob confiteri socero quod fugeret

And Jacob slipped away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he fled.

21 cumque abisset tam ipse quam omnia quae iuris eius erant et amne transmisso pergeret contra montem Galaad

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

22 nuntiatum est Laban die tertio quod fugeret Iacob

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

23 qui adsumptis fratribus suis persecutus est eum diebus septem et conprehendit in monte Galaad

And he took his brothers with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey, and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

24 viditque in somnis dicentem sibi Dominum cave ne quicquam aspere loquaris contra Iacob

And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, Take heed to thyself that thou not speak to Jacob either good or bad.

25 iamque Iacob extenderat in monte tabernaculum cum ille consecutus eum cum fratribus suis in eodem monte Galaad fixit tentorium

And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain. And Laban encamped with his brothers in the mountain of Gilead.

26 et dixit ad Iacob quare ita egisti ut clam me abigeres filias meas quasi captivas gladio

And Laban said to Jacob, What have thou done, that thou have slipped away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters as captives of the sword?

27 cur ignorante me fugere voluisti nec indicare mihi ut prosequerer te cum gaudio et canticis et tympanis et cithara

Why did thou flee secretly, and creep away from me, and did not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp,

28 non es passus ut oscularer filios meos ac filias stulte operatus es et nunc

and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now thou have done foolishly.

29 valet quidem manus mea reddere tibi malum sed Deus patris vestri heri dixit mihi cave ne loquaris cum Iacob quicquam durius

It is in the power of my hand to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Take heed to thyself that thou not speak to Jacob either good or bad.

30 esto ad tuos ire cupiebas et desiderio tibi erat domus patris tui cur furatus es deos meos

And now, though thou have certainly gone, because thou have been very desirous for thy father's house, yet why have thou stolen my gods?

31 respondit Iacob quod inscio te profectus sum timui ne violenter auferres filias tuas

And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid, for I said, Lest thou should take thy daughters from me by force.

32 quod autem furti arguis apud quemcumque inveneris deos tuos necetur coram fratribus nostris scrutare quicquid tuorum apud me inveneris et aufer haec dicens ignorabat quod Rahel furata esset idola

With whomever thou find thy gods, he shall not live. Before our brothers discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

33 ingressus itaque Laban tabernaculum Iacob et Liae et utriusque famulae non invenit cumque intrasset tentorium Rahelis

And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

34 illa festinans abscondit idola subter stramen cameli et sedit desuper scrutantique omne tentorium et nihil invenienti

Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel's saddle, and sat upon them. And Laban felt around all the tent, but did not find them.

35 ait ne irascatur dominus meus quod coram te adsurgere nequeo quia iuxta consuetudinem feminarum nunc accidit mihi sic delusa sollicitudo quaerentis est

And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, for the manner of women is upon me. And he searched, but did not find the teraphim.

36 tumensque Iacob cum iurgio ait quam ob culpam meam et ob quod peccatum sic exarsisti post me

And Jacob was angry, and chided with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? What is my sin that thou have hotly pursued after me?

37 et scrutatus es omnem supellectilem meam quid invenisti de cuncta substantia domus tuae pone hic coram fratribus meis et fratribus tuis et iudicent inter me et te

Whereas thou have felt around all my stuff, what have thou found of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brothers and thy brothers, that they may judge between us two.

38 idcirco viginti annis fui tecum oves tuae et caprae steriles non fuerunt arietes gregis tui non comedi

These twenty years I have been with thee, thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and I have not eaten the rams of thy flocks.

39 nec captum a bestia ostendi tibi ego damnum omne reddebam quicquid furto perierat a me exigebas

I did not bring to thee that which was torn by beasts; I bore the loss of it, of my hand thou required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

40 die noctuque aestu urebar et gelu fugiebat somnus ab oculis meis

Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

41 sic per viginti annos in domo tua servivi tibi quattuordecim pro filiabus et sex pro gregibus tuis inmutasti quoque mercedem meam decem vicibus

These twenty years I have been in thy house. I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock. And thou have changed my wages ten times.

42 nisi Deus patris mei Abraham et Timor Isaac adfuisset mihi forsitan modo nudum me dimisisses adflictionem meam et laborem manuum mearum respexit Deus et arguit te heri

Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now thou would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee last night.

43 respondit ei Laban filiae et filii et greges tui et omnia quae cernis mea sunt quid possum facere filiis et nepotibus meis

And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou see is mine. And what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their sons whom they have borne?

44 veni ergo et ineamus foedus ut sit testimonium inter me et te

And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

45 tulit itaque Iacob lapidem et erexit illum in titulum

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

46 dixitque fratribus suis adferte lapides qui congregantes fecerunt tumulum comederuntque super eum

And Jacob said to his brothers, Gather stones, and they took stones, and made a heap. And they ate there by the heap.

47 quem vocavit Laban tumulus Testis et Iacob acervum Testimonii uterque iuxta proprietatem linguae suae

And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

48 dixitque Laban tumulus iste testis erit inter me et te hodie et idcirco appellatum est nomen eius Galaad id est tumulus Testis

And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore the name of it was called Galeed,

49 intueatur Dominus et iudicet inter nos quando recesserimus a nobis

and Mizpah. For he said, May Jehovah watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another,

50 si adflixeris filias meas et si introduxeris uxores alias super eas nullus sermonis nostri testis est absque Deo qui praesens respicit

if thou will afflict my daughters, and if thou will take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us, see, God is witness between me and thee.

51 dixitque rursus ad Iacob en tumulus hic et lapis quem erexi inter me et te

And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set between me and thee.

52 testis erit tumulus inquam iste et lapis sint in testimonio si aut ego transiero illum pergens ad te aut tu praeterieris malum mihi cogitans

This heap is witness, and the pillar is witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shall not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

53 Deus Abraham et Deus Nahor iudicet inter nos Deus patris eorum iuravit Iacob per Timorem patris sui Isaac

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. And 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

And Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brothers to eat bread. And they ate bread, and tarried all night on the mountain.

55 Laban vero de nocte consurgens osculatus est filios et filias suas et benedixit illis reversus in locum suum

And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. And Laban departed and returned to his place.