1 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 Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. 3 Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock, 5 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 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength. 7 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me. 8 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 Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me. 10 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 The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’ 12 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 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 Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house? 15 Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money. 16 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 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels, 18 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 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.
20 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away. 21 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 Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled. 23 He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead. 24 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 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 Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword? 27 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 and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly. 29 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 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?"
31 Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’ 32 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 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 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 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 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 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 "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 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 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes. 41 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 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 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 Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you."
45 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46 Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap. 47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. 48 Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you today." Therefore it was named Galeed 49 and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another. 50 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 Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you. 52 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 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 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 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to 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）