1 And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken all that our father has. Indeed, from that which our father has, he has made all this glory.” 2 And Jacob saw the face of Laban, and look, it is not with him as before. 3 And YHWH said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your family, and I am with you.” 4 And Jacob sent and called for Rachel and for Leah to the field to his flock. 5 And said to them, “I am beholding your father’s face—that it is not toward me as before, and the God of my father has been with me, 6 and you have known that with all my power I have served your father, 7 and your father has played on me, and has changed my hire ten times. And God has not permitted him to do evil with me. 8 If he said this: The speckled goats are your hire, then all the flock gave birth to speckled ones. And if he said this: The striped goats are your hire, then all the flock gave birth to striped. 9 And God took away the substance of your father, and gave it to me. 10 And it came to pass at the time of the flock conceiving, that I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and look, the male goats, which were going up on the flock, were striped, speckled, and spotted. 11 And the Messenger of God said to me in the dream, Jacob, and I said, Here I am. 12 And He said, Now lift up your eyes and see that all the male goats which are going up on the flock are striped, speckled, and spotted, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you. 13 I am the God of Bethel where you have anointed a standing pillar, where you have vowed a vow to me. Now, arise, go out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.” 14 And Rachel answered—Leah also—and said to him, “Have we yet a portion and inheritance in the house of our father? 15 Have we not been reckoned strangers to him? For he has sold us, and he also utterly consumes our money. 16 For all the wealth which God has taken away from our father, it is ours, and our children’s. And now, all that God has said to you—do.” 17 And Jacob rose, and lifted up his sons and his wives on the camels, 18 and led all his livestock, and all his substance which he had acquired, the livestock of his getting, which he had acquired in Padan-Aram, to go to his father Isaac, to the land of Canaan. 19 And Laban had gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stole the teraphim which her father had. 20 And Jacob deceived the heart of Laban the Aramean, because he had not declared to him that he was fleeing. 21 And he fled, he and all that he had, and rose, and passed over the River, and set his face toward the Mount of Gilead. 22 And it was told to Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled, 23 and he took his brothers with him, and pursued after him a journey of seven days, and overtook him in the Mount of Gilead. 24 And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night and said to him, “Take heed to yourself lest you do not speak with Jacob from good to evil.” 25 And Laban overtook Jacob. And Jacob had fixed his tent in the mountain. And Laban with his brothers had fixed theirs in the Mount of Gilead. 26 And Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done that you deceive my heart, and lead away my daughters as captives of the sword? 27 Why have you hidden yourself to flee, and deceived me, and have not declared to me, and I send you away with joy and with songs, with tambourine and with harp, 28 and have not permitted me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have acted foolishly in doing so. 29 My hand is to God to do evil with you, but the God of your father last night has spoken to me, saying, Take heed to yourself from speaking with Jacob from good to evil. 30 And now, you have certainly gone, because you have been very desirous for the house of your father. Why have you stolen my gods?” 31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, Lest you violently take away your daughters from me. 32 With whomsoever you find your gods—he must not live. Before our brothers discern for yourself what is with me, and take to yourself”: and Jacob had not known that Rachel had stolen them. 33 And Laban goes into the tent of Jacob, and into the tent of Leah, and into the tent of the two handmaidens, and had not found anything. And he goes out from the tent of Leah, and goes into the tent of Rachel. 34 And Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the furniture of the camel, and sat on them. And Laban felt all the tent, and had not found anything. 35 And she said to her father, “Let it not be displeasing in the eyes of my lord that I am not able to rise at your presence, for the way of women is on me.” And he searched, and had not found the teraphim. 36 And it was displeasing to Jacob, and he strove with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, “What is my transgression? What my sin, that you have burned after me? 37 For you have felt all my vessels: what have you found of all the vessels of your house? Set here before my brothers, and your brothers, and they decide between us both. 38 These twenty years I was with you: your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flock I have not eaten. 39 The torn I have not brought to you—I repay it—from my hand you seek it. I have been deceived by day, and I have been deceived by night. 40 I have been like this: drought has consumed me in the day, and frost by night, and my sleep wanders from my eyes. 41 This was to me twenty years in your house: I had served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock. And you changed my hire ten times. 42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now you had sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and reproves last night.” 43 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 you are seeing is mine. And to my daughters—what do I do to these today, or to their sons whom they have born? 44 And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and you, and it has been for a witness between me and you.” 45 And Jacob took a stone, and lifted it up for a standing pillar. 46 And Jacob said to his brothers, “Gather stones,” and they took stones, and made a heap. And they ate there on the heap. 47 And Laban called it Jegar-Sahadutha. And Jacob had called it Galeed. 48 And Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore had he called its name Galeed. 49 Mizpah also, for he said, “YHWH watches between me and you, for we are hidden from one another. 50 If you afflict my daughters, or take wives beside my daughters—there is no man with us—see, God is witness between me and you.” 51 And Laban said to Jacob, “Look, this heap, and look, the standing pillar which I have cast between me and you. 52 This heap is witness, and the standing pillar is witness, that I do not pass over this heap to you, and that you do not pass over this heap and this standing pillar to me—for evil. 53 The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, judges between us—the God of their father,” and Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac. 54 And Jacob sacrificed a sacrifice on the mountain, and called to his brothers to eat bread, and they ate bread, and lodged on the mountain. 55 And Laban rose early in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blesses them. And Laban goes on, and turned back to his place.