Genesis

And Iakob heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: "Iakob has taken it all of our father. And in the [things] of our father he has made all this glory."

And Iakob saw the face of Laban. And behold: he was not towards him as yesterday and [the] third day [before].

And [the] lord said to Iakob: "Return to the land of your father, and to your family, and I will be with you."

And sending, Iakob called Leia and Rachel to the plain where the flocks were.

And he said to them: "I see the face of your father, that it not towards me as yesterday and [the] third day [before]. But the Theos of my father was with me.

But also you yourselves know that with all my strength I have served your father.

But your father cheated me, and changed my wages with the ten lambs. And the Theos gave him not [the power] to do evil [against] me.

If he should have said thus: 'The many-colored will be your wage, then all the sheep would bear many colors.' And if he should have said: 'The white will be your wage, then all the sheep would bear white.'

So then the Theos removed all the cattle of your father, and he gave them to me.

And it came to pass when the sheep were stimulated in [the] womb conceiving, that I saw them with my eyes in sleep. And behold: the male goats and the rams mounted upon the sheep and the female goats: white-mixed and many-colored and ashen speckled.

And the messenger of the Theos said to me during sleep: 'Iakob!' And I said: 'What is it?'

And he said: 'Look up [with] your eyes, and see the male goats and the rams mounting upon the sheep and the female goats: white-mixed and many-colored and ashen speckled, for I have seen as much as Laban does to you.

I am the Theos, the one appearing to you in [the] place of Theos, where you anointed a monument to me, and vowed to me there a vow. Now then, rise up and go forth from out of this land. And go forth into the land of your birth. And I will be with you.' "

And answering, Rachel and Leia said to him: "Is there not to us still a portion or inheritance in the house of our father?

[Are we] not considered as the strangers to him, for he has sold us? And by eating up, he devoured our silvery.

All the riches and the glory which the Theos removed of our father will be ours and our children's. Now then, as much as the Theos has said to you, you do!"

And Iakob rising up, took his wives and his children up on the camels.

And he took away all his goods, and all his belongings which he purchased in Mesopotamia, and all his [things], to go forth towards his father Isaák in [the] land of Chanaán.

And Laban went to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole idols of her father.

And Iakob hid [their departure from] Laban the Syros, [so as] not to announce to him that he [is] running away.

And he ran away, himself and all of his. And he passed over the river, and went into the mountain of Galaád.

But it was announced to Laban the Syros on the third day, that Iakob ran away.

And taking all the ones of his brothers with himself, he pursued after him seven days' journey. And he overtook him in the mountain of Galaád.

And the Theos came to Laban the Syros during sleep in the night, and said to him: "Guard, lest at any time you should speak evil against Iakob."

And Laban overtook Iakob. And Iakob pitched his tent in the mountain. And Laban stationed his brothers in the mountain of Galaád.

And Laban said to Iakob: "What did you do? Why did you secretly run away, and ransacked me, and took away my daughters as captives [taken by] sword?

For if you had told me, I would have even sent you out with gladness, and with music, and tambourines, and harps.

And I [was] not [counted] worthy to kiss my children and my daughters fervently. Now then, you acted unwisely.

And now my hand has power to do evil [against] you. But the Theos of your father said to me yesterday, saying: 'Guard yourself, lest at any time you should speak evil against Iakob.'

Now then, you go, for with desire you desired to go forth into the house of your father. [But] why did you steal my gods?"

And answering Iakob said to Laban: "Because I was afraid, for I said: 'Lest at any time you should take away your daughters from me, and all my [possessions].' "

And Iakob said: "With whomsoever you shall find your gods, he shall not live before our brothers. Recognize what is from me of the [things] of yours, and take [this]." And he did not recognize among [what was] his: not one [thing]. But Iakob did not know that his wife Rachel stole them.

And entering, Laban searched into the house of Leia, and he found not. And he came forth from out of the house of Leia, and searched in the house of Iakob, and in the house of the two maidservants, and found not. And he entered also into the house of Rachel.

And Rachel took the idols, and put them into the packsaddles of the camel, and sat on them.

And she said to her father: "Be not bear heavily, lord. I shall not be able to rise up before you, for the custom of women is to me." Laban searched in the [entire] house, and found not the idols.

And Iakob was angry, and quarreled [with] Laban. And responding, Iakob said to Laban: "What is my misdeed, and what my sin, that you pursued after me,

and that you searched all the goods of my house? What did you find from all the goods of your house? Put [this] here between your brothers and my brothers, and let them reprove between us two!

These twenty years have I been with you. Your sheep and your female goats were not barren. I did not eat rams of your sheep.

That taken by wild beasts, I brought not to you. I paid for [this] by myself, [the] thefts by day, and [the] thefts by night.

I was burning with sweltering heat by day, and with the icy coldness of the night. And my sleep departed from my eyes.

These twenty years have I been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years among your sheep. And you cheated my wage [by] ten ewe-lambs.

Unless the Theos of Abraám, and the fear of my father Isaák was with me, now then you would have sent me away empty. The Theos saw my humiliation and the laborious toil of my hands, and he reproved you yesterday."

And responding Laban said to Iakob: "The daughters [are] my daughters, and [the] sons my sons, and the cattle my cattle. And all as much as you see is mine, and the [property] of my daughters. What shall I do to them today, or the children of them whom they bore?

Now then, come, let us make a covenant, both I and you. And it will be into [a] testimony between me and you." And he said to him: "Behold: there is no one with us. Behold: the Theos is witness between me and you."

And Iakob taking a stone, set it [as a] monument.

And Iakob said to his brothers: "Gather stones!" And they gathered stones and made a hill. And they ate there upon the hill. And Laban said to him: "This hill witnesses between me and you today."

And Laban called it: the hill of testimony. And Iakob called it: [the] hill [is] witness.

And Laban said to Iakob: "Behold: this hill, and the monument, which I have set between me and you: this hill witnesses, and this monument witnesses." Therefore, its name was called: the hill witnesses.

And the vision [of] which he said: "Let the Theos look between me and you", [is] that we will leave [the] other from [the] other.

If you shall humiliate my daughters, if you should take wives in addition to my daughters, beware no one is with us seeing [but] the Theos [is] witness between me and between you."

And Laban said to Iakob: "Behold: this hill is a witness, and this monument.

For if I should not cross over unto you, neither should you cross over to me, for mischief [lies] beyond this hill and this monument.

The Theos of Abraám and the Theos of Nachor judges between us."

And Iakob swore by an oath according to the fear of his father Isaák. And he offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brothers. And they ate and drank, and went to sleep in the mountain.

And Laban rising up in the morning, kissed his sons and daughters, and blessed them. And Laban turned [and] went forth to his place.