Génesis 31

1 Y oía las palabras de los hijos de Labán, que decían: Jacob ha tomado todo lo que era de nuestro padre: y de lo que era de nuestro padre ha hecho toda esta gloria.

Someone told Jacob that Laban’s sons were complaining and saying, “Jacob has become very rich by taking everything [HYP] that belonged to our father.”

2 Miraba también Jacob el rostro de Labán, y veía que no era para con él como ayer y anteayer.

And Jacob noticed that Laban was not acting friendly toward him as he had done before.

3 También Jehová dijo a Jacob: Vuélvete a la tierra de tus padres, y a tu parentela, que yo seré contigo.

Then Yahweh said to Jacob, “Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will help you there.”

4 Y envió Jacob, y llamó a Raquel y a Lia al campo, a sus ovejas.

So Jacob sent a message to Rachel and Leah, telling them to come out to the pastures where his flocks of sheep and goats were.

5 Y díjoles: Yo veo que el rostro de vuestro padre no es para conmigo como ayer y anteayer: y el Dios de mi padre ha sido conmigo.

When they arrived, he said to them, “I see that your father does not act friendly toward me as he did previously. But God, whom my father worshiped, has helped me.

6 Y vosotras sabéis, que con todas mis fuerzas he servido a vuestro padre:

You two know that I have worked very hard for your father,

7 Y vuestro padre me ha mentido, que me ha mudado el salario diez veces; mas Dios no le ha permitido, que me hiciese mal.

but many times [HYP] he has cheated me by decreasing my wages. But God has not allowed him to harm me.

8 Si él decía así: Los pintados serán tu salario; entonces todas las ovejas parían pintados: y si decía así: Los cinchados serán tu salario; entonces todas las ovejas parían cinchados.

When Laban said, ‘The speckled animals are the ones that I will give you to be your wages,’ then all the animals gave birth to young ones that were speckled. When he changed and said, ‘The ones that have black and white stripes on them will be your wages,’ then all the animals gave birth to young ones that were striped.

9 Y quitó Dios el ganado de vuestro padre; y diómelo a mí.

In that way, God has taken away the livestock that belonged to your father and has given them to me.

10 Y fue que al tiempo que las ovejas se calentaban, yo alcé mis ojos, y ví en sueños, y he aquí, que los machos subían sobre las hembras cinchados, pintados, y pedriscados:

“One time, when the animals were mating, I had a dream. In my dream I [looked up and was surprised to] see that some of the male goats that were mating with the female goats had black and white stripes on them, some were speckled, and some were spotted.

11 Y díjome el ángel de Dios en sueños: ¿Jacob? Y yo dije: Heme aquí.

An angel who was sent by God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob!’ I replied, ‘I am here!’

12 Y él dijo: Alza ahora tus ojos, y verás todos los machos que suben sobre las ovejas cinchados, pintados, y pedriscados; porque yo he visto todo lo que Labán te ha hecho.

He said to me, ‘Look up and you will see that all the male goats that are mating have black and white stripes on them, or are speckled or spotted. This is happening because I have seen all that Laban has done to you.

13 Yo soy el Dios de Bet-el, donde tú ungiste el título, y donde me prometiste voto. Levántate ahora, y sal de esta tierra, y vuélvete a la tierra de tu naturaleza.

I am God who appeared to you at Bethel, where you set up a stone to show that the place was holy, and you poured [olive] oil on the stone and made a solemn promise to me. So now leave this land immediately, and return to the land where you were born.’”

14 Y respondió Raquel, y Lia, y dijéronle: ¿Tenemos ya parte ni heredad en la casa de nuestro padre?

Rachel and Leah replied, “Our father will not give us anything more when he dies [RHQ].

15 ¿No nos tiene ya como por extrañas? que nos vendió, y aun comiendo ha comido nuestro dinero?

He treats us as though we were foreigners [RHQ]! [Your working for him all these years was like a payment] that you gave him as a price for us, but we will not inherit any of that money that he got as a price for us. He has spent it all!

16 Porque toda la riqueza que Dios ha quitado a nuestro padre, nuestra es, y de nuestros hijos: ahora pues haz todo lo que Dios te ha dicho.

Surely all of the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you to do!”

17 Entonces Jacob se levantó, y alzó a sus hijos y a sus mujeres sobre los camellos;

Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels.

18 Y guió todo su ganado, y toda su hacienda que había adquirido, el ganado de su ganancia que había adquirido en Padan-aram, para volverse a Isaac su padre en la tierra de Canaán.

He made all his livestock go ahead of him. Besides the livestock, he took along all the other things that he had acquired while living in Paddan-Aram. And they prepared to return to his father Isaac, in the Canaan region.

19 Y Labán había ido a trasquilar sus ovejas: y Raquel hurtó los ídolos de su padre.

Before they left, while Laban was shearing his sheep, Rachel stole the [small wooden] idols [that were in her father’s tent].

20 Y hurtó Jacob el corazón de Labán Arameo en no hacerle saber como huía.

Furthermore, Jacob deceived Laban, who belonged to the Aram people-group, by not telling him that they were planning to leave.

21 Y huyó él con todo lo que tenía: y levantóse y pasó el río, y puso su rostro al monte de Galaad.

So Jacob and his family fled with all their possessions, and they crossed the Euphrates River, and then started traveling south toward the hilly Gilead region.

22 Y fue dicho a Labán al tercero día, como Jacob había huido.

On the third day after they left, someone told Laban that Jacob and his family had left.

23 Y tomó a sus hermanos consigo, y fue tras él camino de siete días, y alcanzóle en el monte de Galaad.

So he took some of his relatives with him and started to pursue Jacob. They continued walking for seven days.

24 Y vino Dios a Labán Arameo en sueño aquella noche, y díjole: Guárdate que no digas a Jacob bueno ni malo.

Then God appeared to Laban in a dream at night, and said to him, “When you catch up to Jacob, be sure that you do not say anything at all [HYP] to him in an angry manner!”

25 Alcanzó pues Labán a Jacob, y Jacob había hincado su tienda en el monte: y Labán hincó con sus hermanos en el monte de Galaad.

The next day, by the time Laban caught up with Jacob, Jacob and his household had set up their tents in the hilly Gilead region. So Laban and his relatives set up their tents there, too.

26 Y dijo Labán a Jacob: ¿Qué has hecho? ¿Qué me hurtaste el corazón, y has traído mis hijas como cautivadas a cuchillo?

Then Laban went to Jacob and said to him, “Why have you done this? You have deceived me by carrying away my daughters as though you had captured them in a war [MTY]!

27 ¿Por qué te escondiste para huir, y me hurtaste, y no me hiciste saber, que yo te enviara con alegría, y con canciones, con tamboril, y vihuela?

Why did you run away and deceive me? Why did you not tell me that you were going to leave, so that we could have rejoiced and sung while people played music on tambourines and harps before I said ‘goodbye’ to you?

28 ¿Qué aun no me dejaste besar mis hijos y mis hijas? Ahora locamente has hecho.

(You did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye before they left!/Why did you not allow me to kiss my grandchildren and daughters goodbye before they left?) [RHQ] What you have done was foolish!

29 Poder hay en mi mano para haceros mal, mas el Dios de vuestro padre me habló anoche, diciendo: Guárdate que no digas a Jacob ni bueno ni malo.

My relatives and I have the power to harm you, but last night the God whom your father worships said to me in a dream, ‘Be sure that you do not say anything at all to Jacob in an angry way.’

30 Y ya que te ibas, porque tenías deseo de la casa de tu padre, ¿por qué me hurtabas mis dioses?

Now, I know you have left because you long to go back home. But why did you steal my [wooden] idols?”

31 Y Jacob respondió, y dijo a Labán: Porque tuve miedo: que dije, que quizá me robarías tus hijas.

Jacob replied to Laban, saying, “I did not tell you that we were planning to leave, because I was afraid. I thought that [if I told you], you would forcefully take your daughters away from me.

32 En quien hallares tus dioses, no viva: delante de nuestros hermanos reconoce lo que yo tuviere, y tómatelo. Jacob no sabía que Raquel los había hurtado.

But if you find anyone here who has your wooden idols, we will execute that person. While our relatives are watching, search for yourself to see if there is anything that belongs to you that is here with me. If you find anything, you can take it!” When Jacob said that, he did not know that Rachel had stolen the wooden idols.

33 Y entró Labán en la tienda de Jacob, y en la tienda de Lia, y en la tienda de las dos siervas, y no los halló: y salió de la tienda de Lia y vino a la tienda de Raquel:

Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and then into Leah’s tent, and then into the tents of the two female slaves and searched for the idols, but he did not find them. After he left their tents, he entered Rachel’s tent.

34 Y Raquel tomó los ídolos, y púsolos en una albarda de un camello, y sentóse sobre ellos: y tentó Labán toda la tienda, y no los halló.

But Rachel had previously taken the idols and put them in the saddle of a camel, and she was sitting on the saddle. So when Laban searched all over for them inside Rachel’s tent, he did not find them.

35 Y ella dijo a su padre: No se enoje mi señor, porque no me puedo levantar delante de ti; porque tengo la costumbre de las mujeres. Y él buscó, y no halló los ídolos.

Rachel said to her father, “Do not be angry with me, sir, but I cannot get up in your presence [to show respect for you], because I am having my monthly menstrual period. [EUP]” So when Laban searched some more, he did not find the [wooden] idols.

36 Entonces Jacob se enojó, y riñó con Labán, y respondió Jacob, y dijo a Labán: ¿Qué prevaricación es la mía? ¿qué es mi pecado, que has seguido en pos de mí?

Then Jacob became angry. He rebuked Laban, saying, “What crime did I commit? For what sin that I committed have you pursued me?

37 Pues que has tentado todas mis alhajas, ¿qué has hallado de todas las alhajas de tu casa? Pon aquí delante de mis hermanos y tuyos, y juzguen entre nosotros ambos.

Now you have searched through all my possessions, and what did you find from all these possessions that belongs to you? Put it here in front of my relatives and your relatives, so that they can decide who is right, you or me!

38 Estos veinte años he estado contigo; que tus ovejas y tus cabras nunca movieron: nunca comí carnero de tus ovejas:

I was with you for 20 years. In all that time, your sheep and goats have (not miscarried/always given birth to animals safely). I have not [killed and] eaten any rams from your flocks.

39 Nunca te traje arrebatado, yo pagaba el daño: lo hurtado así de día como de noche, de mi mano lo requerias:

When one of your animals was attacked and mauled/killed by a wild animal, I did not bring it to you. I replaced the dead animal with a living one of my own animals. Whenever one of your animals was stolen, during the day or during the night, you demanded that I replace it with one of my own animals.

40 De día me consumía el calor, y de noche la helada, y mi sueño se huía de mis ojos:

I suffered from the heat during the day and from the cold at night. I was often not even able to sleep [PRS]!

41 Estos veinte años tengo en tu casa; catorce años te serví por tus dos hijas, y seis años por tus ovejas, y has mudado mi salario diez veces.

I lived in your household for 20 years. I worked for you for 14 years to buy your two daughters, and for six more years to buy some of your sheep and goats. During that time, you changed and reduced my wages many times [HYP].

42 Si el Dios de mi padre, el Dios de Abraham, y el temor de Isaac no fuera conmigo, cierto vacío me enviaras ahora: mas vio Dios mi aflicción y el trabajo de mis manos, y te reprendió anoche.

If God, the one whom my grandfather Abraham worshiped and before whom my father Isaac trembled in fear, had not been with me and helped me, you would have sent me away (with nothing in my hands/owning nothing)! But God saw how much I was suffering and how hard I was working, so last night he told you that what you have done to me was wrong.”

43 Y respondió Labán, y dijo a Jacob: Las hijas, mis hijas son, y los hijos, mis hijos, y las ovejas, mis ovejas; y todo lo que tu ves, mío es: y a estas mis hijas ¿qué tengo de hacer hoy, o a sus hijos que han parido?

Laban replied, “These two women are my daughters, and their children are my grandchildren, and the animals are my animals. Everything you see here is mine [HYP]! But what can I do today to keep my daughters or the children they have given birth to [RHQ]?

44 Ven pues ahora, y hagamos alianza yo y tú; y sea en testimonio entre mí y ti.

I cannot do anything in order to keep them, so hey, we should make a peace agreement, you and I, and do something that will remind us about our agreement.”

45 Entonces Jacob tomó una piedra, y levantóla por título:

So Jacob took a [large] stone and set it on its end.

46 Y dijo Jacob a sus hermanos: Cogéd piedras. Y tomaron piedras, e hicieron un majano; y comieron allí sobre aquel majano:

Then Jacob said to his relatives, “You also gather some stones.” So they gathered some rocks and put them in a heap, and they ate some food there near the heap.

47 Y llamólo Labán Jegar-sahaduta: y Jacob lo llamó Galaad;

Laban gave the heap the Aramaic name Jegar-Sahadutha, [which means ‘rock-pile to remind us’, ] but Jacob gave the rock-pile the Hebrew name Galeed, [which has the same meaning].

48 Porque Labán dijo: Este majano será testigo hoy entre mí y ti: por eso llamó su nombre Galaad,

Laban said to Jacob, “This pile of rocks we have put here today will help us to remember our agreement.” That is why Jacob called it Galeed.

49 Y Mispa; porque dijo: Atalaye Jehová entre mí y ti, cuando nos escondieremos el uno del otro.

They also named the place Mizpah, [which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘watchtower’, ] because Laban said, “We will ask Yahweh to watch you and me while we are separated from each other, [so that we do not try to harm each other].

50 Si afligieres mis hijas, o si tomares otras mujeres además de mis hijas, nadie está con nosotros: mas mira, Dios es testigo entre mí y ti.

If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take other women to be your wives, even if no one tells me about it, don’t forget that God sees what you and I are doing!”

51 Dijo mas Labán a Jacob: He aquí este majano, y he aquí este título que he fundado entre mí y ti.

Laban also said to Jacob, “You see this large stone and this pile of rocks that we have set up to be between us.

52 Testigo sea este majano, y testigo sea este título, que ni yo pasaré contra ti este majano, ni tú pasarás contra mí este majano, ni este título para mal.

Both this pile of rocks and this large stone will remind us, that I will not go past these rocks to harm you, and you will not go past these rocks to harm me.

53 El Dios de Abraham, y el Dios de Nacor juzgue entre nosotros, el Dios de sus padres. Y Jacob juró por el temor de Isaac su padre.

We will ask the God whom [your grandfather] Abraham and [his father] Nahor worshiped to punish [MTY] either one of us, [if we harm the other one].” So Jacob solemnly promised to do what they said in their peace agreement. And he asked God, the one before whom his father Isaac trembled, to listen to what they promised.

54 Y sacrificó Jacob sacrificio en el monte, y llamó a sus hermanos a comer pan; y comieron pan, y durmieron en el monte.

He offered a sacrifice to God there in the hilly area, and he invited his relatives to eat with him. After they had eaten, they slept there that night.

55 Y madrugó Labán por la mañana, y besó sus hijos y sus hijas, y bendíjolos, y volvió, y tornóse a su lugar.

The next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters [goodbye] and asked God to bless them. Then he [and his men] left them and returned home.