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

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."

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

Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and look, it was not as it had been.

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

Then God said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."

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

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

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 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.

6 et ipsae nostis quod totis viribus meis servierim patri vestro

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

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

Yet your father has cheated 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 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.

9 tulitque Deus substantiam patris vestri et dedit mihi

Thus God has taken away your father's livestock 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 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.

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

The angel 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

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.

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 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.'"

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

Rachel and Leah answered 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

Aren't we regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has used up what was paid for us.

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, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."

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

Then Jacob got up and put 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 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.

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

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father.

20 noluitque Iacob confiteri socero quod fugeret

Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he intended to flee.

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

So he fled with everything that he had, and he arose and crossed the River, and set out toward the hill country of Gilead.

22 nuntiatum est Laban die tertio quod fugeret Iacob

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

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

He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him for seven days, and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

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

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."

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

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.

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? You have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives taken in war?

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

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.

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

And you did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you 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 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.'

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

Now you have indeed gone away, because you longed greatly for your father's house. But why have you stolen my gods?"

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

Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your 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

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.

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

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 stramen cameli et sedit desuper scrutantique omne tentorium et nihil invenienti

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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 you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.

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

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.

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

I was consumed by the heat during the day and by the frost at night, and sleepless nights.

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 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.

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 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."

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

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?

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

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."

45 tulit itaque Iacob lapidem et erexit illum in titulum

Jacob took a stone and set it up as a standing-stone.

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

Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." So they took stones and made a mound. They ate there by the mound.

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

Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, 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

Laban said, "This mound is a witness between me and you today." Therefore it was named Galeed

49 intueatur Dominus et iudicet inter nos quando recesserimus a nobis

and Mizpah, for he said, "God watch between me and you, 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 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."

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

Laban said to Jacob, "See this mound, and see the standing-stone, which I have set 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

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.

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." Then 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 the meal. They ate the meal and stayed all night on the mountain.

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

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