1And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s he has gotten all this glory. 2And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. 3And Yehovah said to Jacob, Return to the land of your fathers, and to your kindred; and I will be with you. 4And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock, 5and said to them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me. 6And you know that with all my power I have served your father. 7And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to hurt me. 8If he said thus, The speckled shall be your wages; then all the flock bore speckled: and if he said thus, The striped shall be your wages; then all the flock bore striped. 9Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. 10And it happened at the time that the flock conceived, that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the male goats which mated with the flock were striped, speckled, and grizzled. 11And the angel of God said to me in the dream, Jacob: and I said, Here I am. 12And he said, Lift up now your eyes, and see: all the male goats which mate with the flock are striped, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban does to you. 13I am the God of Beth-el, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me: now arise, go out from this land, and return to the land of your birth. 14And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there still any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house? 15Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he has sold us, and has also completely devoured our money. 16For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children’s: now then, whatever God has said to you, do. 17Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels; 18and he carried away all his cattle, and all his possessions which he had gathered, the cattle of his acquiring, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan. 19Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s. 20And Jacob stole away from Laban the Syrian unawares, in that he did not tell him that he fled. 21So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead. 22And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled. 23And he took his brothers with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead. 24And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, Take heed to yourself that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad. 25And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and Laban with his brothers encamped in the mountain of Gilead. 26And Laban said to Jacob, What have you done, that you have stolen away from me unawares, and carried away my daughters as captives of the sword? 27Why did you flee secretly, and steal away from me, and did not tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp; 28and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now you have done foolishly. 29It is in the power of my hand to do you harm: but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Take heed to yourself that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad. 30And now, though you had to go, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, yet why have you stolen my gods? 31And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Lest you should take your daughters from me by force. 32With whomever you find your gods, he shall not live: before our brothers point out what is yours with me, and take it. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them. 33And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent. 34Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but did not find them. 35And she said to her father, Let my lord not be angry that I cannot rise up before you; for the manner of women is upon me. And he searched, but did not find the teraphim. 36And Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me? 37Though you have felt through all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my brothers and your brothers, that they may judge between us two. 38These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of your flocks I have not eaten. 39That which was torn by beasts I did not bring to you; I bore its loss; from my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes. 41These 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. 42Unless 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. 43And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne? 44And now come, let us make a covenant, I and you; and let it be for a witness between me and you. 45And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46And Jacob said to his brothers, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a heap: and they ate there by the heap. 47And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. 48And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and you this day. Therefore its name was called Galeed: 49and Mizpah, for he said, Yehovah watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another. 50If you afflict my daughters, and if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and you. 51And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set between me and you. 52This heap is witness, and the pillar is witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you shall not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. 53The 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. 54And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brothers to eat bread: and they ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain. 55And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned to his place.