And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken all that [was] our father’s; and of what [was] our father’s hath he acquired all this glory.
And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban and, behold, it [was] not toward him as beforetime.
And Jehovah said to Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.
And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
and said to them, I see your father’s countenance, that it [is] not toward me as beforetime: but the God of my father hath been with me.
And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
And your father hath mocked me and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages, then all the flock bare speckled; and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy wages, then all the flock bare ringstraked.
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and hath given [them] to me.
And it came to pass at the time of the ardour of the flock, that I lifted up mine eyes and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams that leaped upon the flock [were] ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
And the angel of God said to me, in a dream, Jacob; and I said, Here [am] I.
And he said, Lift up now thine eyes and see: all the rams that leap upon the flock [are] ringstraked, speckled, and spotted: for I have seen all that Laban doth to thee.
I [am] the God of Bethel where thou anointedst the pillar, where thou vowedst a vow to me. Now arise, depart out of this land, and return to the land of thy kindred.
And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, [Is there] yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
Are we not reckoned of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.
For all the wealth that God hath taken from our father [is] ours and our children’s: and now what God hath said to thee, do it.
And Jacob rose up and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance that he had acquired, the cattle of his possession that he had acquired in Padan-Aram, to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that [were] her father’s.
And Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
And he fled with all that he had; and he rose up and passed over the river [the Euphrates] and set his face [toward] the mountain of Gilead.
And it was told Laban the third day that Jacob had fled.
And he took his brethren with him and pursued after him a seven days’ journey, and overtook him on mount Gilead.
And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
And Laban came up with Jacob; and Jacob had pitched his tent on the mountain; Laban also with his brethren pitched on mount Gilead.
And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done that thou hast deceived me, and hast carried away my daughters as captives of sword?
Why didst thou flee away covertly and steal away from me; and didst not tell me that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tambor and with harp,
and hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now thou hast acted foolishly.
My hand is as God to do you hurt; but the God of your father last night spake to me, saying, Take care that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
And now thou must needs be gone, because thou greatly longedst after thy father’s house, why hast thou stolen my gods?
And Jacob answered and said to Laban, I was afraid for I said, Lest thou shouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern what [is] thine with me, and take [it] for thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two handmaids’ tents, and found nothing, and he went out of Leah’s tent into Rachel’s tent.
Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them under the camel’s saddle, and she sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent and found them not.
And she said to her father, Let there be no kindling in my lord’s eyes that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me. And he closely searched, but found not the teraphim.
And Jacob was kindled, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What [is] my trespass, what my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
Whereas thou hast felt all about my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set [it] here before my brethren and thy brethren, and let them decide between us both.
These twenty years I [have been] with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and rams of thy flock I have not eaten.
What was torn I have not brought to thee; I bore the loss of it: of my hand didst thou require it, stolen by day or stolen by night.
[Thus] I was; in the day drought consumed me, and frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
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 hast changed my wages ten times.
Had not my father’s God, the God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac, been with me, surely empty now thou hadst sent me away. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked [thee] last night.
And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters [are] my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the flock my flock, and all that thou seest [is] mine; and what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their sons whom they have borne?
And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for witness between me and thee.
And Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones and made a heap and ate there on the heap.
And Laban called it Jagar-sahadutha , and Jacob called it Galeed.
And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore is its name called Galeed
and Mizpah ; for he said, Watch, Jehovah, between me and thee, when we are hidden one from another.
If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God [is] witness between me and thee.
And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar which I have set up between me and thee.
This heap [be] witness and the pillar [be] witness, that I pass not over this heap to thee, and that thou pass not over this heap and this pillar to me for harm.
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.
And Jacob offered a sacrifice upon the mountain, and invited his brethren to eat bread: and they ate bread and lodged upon the mountain.
And Laban rose early in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban went and returned to his place.