1 And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory. 2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. 3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. 4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, 5 And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me. 6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. 7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. 8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked. 9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. 10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled. 11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I. 12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee. 13 I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred. 14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house? 15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money. 16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels; 18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s. 20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. 21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead. 22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. 23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead. 24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead. 26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword? 27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp? 28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing. 29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 30 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods? 31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me. 32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them. 33 And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent. 34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not. 35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? 37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both. 38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. 39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. 41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times. 42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born? 44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. 45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap. 47 And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. 48 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; 49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. 50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee. 51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee; 52 This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac. 54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount. 55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.
1 雅各听见拉班的众子谈论, 说: "雅各把我们父亲所有的都夺去了, 他这一切财物, 都是从我们父亲的财产那里得来的。"
2 雅各也注意到拉班的脸色, 对自己不像从前那样了。
3 那时, 耶和华对雅各说: "你要回到你列祖之地, 到你的亲族那里去, 我必与你同在。"
4 雅各就派人把拉结和利亚叫到田间的羊群那里去,
5 对她们说: "我注意到你们父亲的脸色, 对我不像从前那样了; 但是我父亲的 神与我同在。
6 我尽了我的力量来服事你们的父亲, 这是你们知道的;
7 你们的父亲却欺骗了我, 十次更改了我的工资; 但 神不容许他伤害我。
8 如果他说: ‘有斑点的算是你的工资’, 羊群所生的全部都有斑点; 如果他说: ‘有条纹的算是你的工资’, 羊群所生的全部有条纹。
9 这样, 神把你们父亲的牲畜夺来, 赐给我了。
10 有一次, 羊群交配的时候, 我在梦中举目观看, 看见爬在母羊身上的公山羊, 都是有条纹、有斑点和有花斑的。
11 神的使者在梦中对我说: ‘雅各。’我说: ‘我在这里。’
12 他说: ‘你举目观看, 所有爬在母羊身上的公山羊, 都是有条纹、有斑点和有花斑的, 因为拉班向你所作的一切, 我都看见了。
13 我就是伯特利的 神, 你曾经在那里用油膏过石柱, 又在那里向我许过愿。现在你要起程, 离开这地, 回到你的亲族那里去吧。’"
14 拉结和利亚回答雅各, 说: "在我们父亲的家里, 我们还有可得的分和产业吗?
15 他不是把我们看作外人吗?因为他把我们卖了, 吞没了我们的身价。
16 神从我们父亲夺回来的一切财物, 都是属于我们和我们的儿女的。现在 神吩咐你的一切, 你只管作吧。"
17 于是雅各起来, 叫他的儿女和妻子们都骑上骆驼。
18 又赶着他所有的牲畜, 带着他所得的一切财物, 就是他在巴旦.亚兰所得的一切牲畜, 要到迦南地, 他父亲以撒那里去。
19 当时拉班剪羊毛去了, 拉结就偷了他父亲的神像。
20 雅各瞒着亚兰人拉班, 没有告诉拉班他将要逃走。
21 于是, 雅各带着他所有的一切逃走了。他起程渡过了大河, 面对着基列山走去。
22 到了第三天, 有人告诉拉班说雅各逃走了。
23 拉班就带着自己的众兄弟追赶他, 追了七日的路程, 才在基列山把他们追上了。
24 当天晚上, 神在梦中来到亚兰人拉班那里, 对他说: "你要小心, 不可与雅各说什么。"
25 拉班追上了雅各。当时雅各已经在山上支搭了帐棚; 拉班和他的众兄弟, 也在基列山上支搭了帐棚。
26 拉班对雅各说: "你作的是什么事呢?你瞒着我, 把我的女儿们当作战俘一样带走了。
27 你为什么暗中逃走, 瞒着我不让我知道, 使我可以欢欢喜喜地唱歌、击鼓、弹琴给你送行呢?
28 你又不让我与我的外孙和女儿亲嘴。你所作的太糊涂了!
29 我本来有能力可以伤害你, 但昨天晚上, 你们父亲的 神对我说: ‘你要小心, 不可与雅各说什么。’
30 现在你既然渴想你的父家, 一定要回去, 为什么又偷我的神像呢?"
31 雅各回答拉班, 说: "我逃走, 是因为我害怕, 我心里想: 恐怕你会把你的女儿们从我的手中抢走。
32 至于你的神像, 你在谁身上搜出来, 那人就不该活着; 你当着我们众兄弟面前查一查, 如果在我这里有什么东西是你的, 你只管拿去。"原来雅各不知拉结偷了神像。
33 拉班进了雅各的帐棚、利亚的帐棚和两个婢女的帐棚, 都没有搜出什么, 于是从利亚的帐棚出来, 进了拉结的帐棚。
34 拉结已经把神像放在骆驼的鞍下, 自己坐在上面。拉班搜遍了帐棚, 但没有搜出什么。
35 拉结对她父亲说: "求我主不要生气, 我不能在你面前起来, 因为我正有女人的经期。"这样, 拉班彻底搜查了, 也搜不出那神像来。
36 雅各就生气, 与拉班争吵起来。雅各责问拉班说: "我到底有什么过犯, 有什么罪恶, 你竟这样急速地追赶我呢?
37 你已经搜遍了我所有的家具, 你有找到你家的东西没有?可以把它放在这里, 在你我的众兄弟面前, 让他们可以在你我中间判断一下。
38 这二十年来, 我与你在一起; 你的母绵羊和母山羊没掉过胎, 你羊群中的公羊, 我没有吃过。
39 被野兽撕裂的, 我没有给你带回来, 都是由我自己赔偿; 无论白天偷去的, 或是黑夜偷的, 你都要我负责。
40 我白天受尽炎热, 黑夜受尽寒霜, 不能入睡; 我经常是这样。
41 我这二十年在你的家里, 为你的两个女儿服事了你十四年; 为你的羊群服事了你六年; 你又十次改了我的工资。
42 如果不是我父亲的 神, 就是亚伯拉罕的 神, 以撒所敬畏的 神, 与我同在, 你现在必定打发我空手回去。但 神看见了我的苦情和我手中的辛劳, 所以他昨天晚上责备了你。"
43 拉班回答雅各, 说: "这些女儿是我的女儿; 这些孩子是我的孩子; 这些羊群也是我的羊群。其实你眼所见的一切都是我的。但我今日向我的女儿和她们所生的孩子, 能作什么呢?
44 来吧, 现在我和你可以立约, 作为你我之间的证据。"
45 雅各就拿了一块石头, 立作石柱。
46 雅各又对自己的众兄弟说: "你们把石头堆聚起来。"他们就把石头拿来, 堆成了一堆。他们又在石堆旁边吃喝。
47 拉班称那石堆为伊迦尔.撒哈杜他, 雅各却称那石堆为迦累得。
48 拉班说: "今天这堆石头是你我之间的证据。"因此它名叫迦累得,
49 又名叫米斯巴, 因为拉班说: "我们彼此分离以后, 愿耶和华在你我中间鉴察。
50 你若苦待我的女儿, 或在我的女儿以外, 另娶妻子, 虽然没有人在我们中间作证, 但你要注意, 神就是你我之间的见证人。"
51 拉班又对雅各说: "你看这堆石头, 看我在你我之间所竖立的石柱。
52 这堆石头就是证据, 这石柱也是证据: 我决不越过这石堆到你那里去, 你也决不可越过这石堆和石柱, 到我这里来害我。
53 但愿亚伯拉罕的 神、拿鹤的 神, 就是他们父亲的 神, 在我们中间判断。"雅各就指着他父亲以撒所敬畏的 神起誓。
54 雅各又在山上献祭, 叫了自己的众兄弟来吃饭。他们吃了饭, 就在山上过夜。
55 拉班清早起来, 与他的外孙和女儿亲嘴, 给他们祝福。然后拉班离开那里, 回自己的地方去了。(本节在《马索拉抄本》为32:1)