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
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.”
2 animadvertit quoque faciem Laban quod non esset erga se sicut heri et nudius tertius
Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
3 maxime dicente sibi Domino revertere in terram patrum tuorum et ad generationem tuam eroque tecum
The LORD 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 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 the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as 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
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t 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, ‘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.
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
During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
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 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.
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 pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get 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 considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up 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 are 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 rose up, and set 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 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.
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 teraphim that were her father’s.
20 noluitque Iacob confiteri socero quod fugeret
Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
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. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain 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 him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
24 viditque in somnis dicentem sibi Dominum cave ne quicquam aspere loquaris contra Iacob
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.”
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 mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain 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 have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like 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 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;
28 non es passus ut oscularer filios meos ac filias stulte operatus es et nunc
and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you 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 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.’
30 esto ad tuos ire cupiebas et desiderio tibi erat domus patris tui cur furatus es deos meos
Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed 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 said, ‘Lest you should 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. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t 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 didn’t 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 teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t 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, “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.
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 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 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.
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 cast 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 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.
40 die noctuque aestu urebar et gelu fugiebat somnus ab oculis meis
This was my situation: 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 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 fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, 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! What can I do today 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
Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”
45 tulit itaque Iacob lapidem et erexit illum in titulum
Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
46 dixitque fratribus suis adferte lapides qui congregantes fecerunt tumulum comederuntque super eum
Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
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 heap is 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, “The LORD 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 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.”
51 dixitque rursus ad Iacob en tumulus hic et lapis quem erexi inter me et te
Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, 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 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.
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 in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in 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.
