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 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”;

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

and Jacob sees the face of Laban, and behold, it is not with him as before.

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

And YHWH says to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your family, and I am with you.”

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

And Jacob sends and calls for Rachel and for 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 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,

6 et ipsae nostis quod totis viribus meis servierim patri vestro

and you have known 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 played on me, and has changed my hire ten times; and God has not permitted him to do evil with 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 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;

9 tulitque Deus substantiam patris vestri et dedit mihi

and God takes away the substance of your father, and gives 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 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;

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

and the Messenger of God says to me in the dream, Jacob, and I say, 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 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;

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 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.”

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

And Rachel answers—Leah also—and says to him, “Have we yet a portion and inheritance in the house of our father?

15 nonne quasi alienas reputavit nos et vendidit comeditque pretium nostrum

Have we not been reckoned strangers to him? For he has sold us, and he also utterly consumes our money;

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

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.”

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

And Jacob rises, and lifts up his sons and his wives on the camels,

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

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.

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

And Laban has gone to shear his flock, and Rachel steals the teraphim which her father has;

20 noluitque Iacob confiteri socero quod fugeret

and Jacob deceives the heart of Laban the Aramean, because he has not declared to him that he is fleeing;

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

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.

22 nuntiatum est Laban die tertio quod fugeret Iacob

And it is told to Laban on the third day that Jacob has fled,

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

and he takes his brothers with him, and pursues after him a journey of seven days, and overtakes him in the Mount of Gilead.

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

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.”

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

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.

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

And Laban says to Jacob, “What have you done that you deceive my heart, and lead 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 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,

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

and have not permitted me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have acted foolishly in doing [so];

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

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.

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

And now, you have certainly gone, because you have been very desirous for the house of your father; why have you stolen my gods?”

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

And Jacob answers and says to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, Lest you violently take away your daughters from me;

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 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.

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

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.

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

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;

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 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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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;

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

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;

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

I have been [thus]: drought has consumed me in the day, and frost by night, and my sleep wanders 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

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;

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 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.”

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 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?

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

And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and you, and it has been for a witness between me and you.”

45 tulit itaque Iacob lapidem et erexit illum in titulum

And Jacob takes a stone, and lifts it up [for] a standing pillar;

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

and Jacob says to his brothers, “Gather stones,” and they take stones, and make a heap; and they eat there on the heap;

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

and Laban calls it Jegar-Sahadutha; and Jacob has 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 says, “This heap [is] witness between me and you today”; therefore has he called its name Galeed;

49 intueatur Dominus et iudicet inter nos quando recesserimus a nobis

Mizpah also, for he said, “YHWH watches between me and you, for we are hidden from one another;

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

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.”

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

And Laban says to Jacob, “Behold, this heap, and behold, the standing pillar which I have cast between me and you;

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 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;

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, judges between us—the God of their father,” and Jacob swears 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 sacrifices a sacrifice on the mountain, and calls to his brothers to eat bread, and they eat bread, and lodge on the mountain;

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

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.