Genesis 31 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And he heard the words of Laḇ

² And Yaʽ

³ And יהוה  said to Yaʽ

⁴ And Yaʽ

⁵ and said to them, “I see your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before, but the Elohim of my father has been with me.

⁶ “And you know that I have served your father with all my strength.

⁷ “Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but Elohim did not allow him to do evil to me.

⁸ “When he said this, ‘The speckled are your wages,’ then all the flocks bore speckled. And when he said this, ‘The streaked are your wages,’ then all the flocks bore streaked.

⁹ “So Elohim has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.

¹⁰ “And it came to be, at the time when the flocks conceived, that I lifted my eyes and looked in a dream and saw the rams which leaped upon the flocks were streaked, speckled, and mottled.

¹¹ “And the Messenger of Elohim spoke to me in a dream, saying, ‘Yaʽ

¹² “And He said, ‘Lift your eyes now and see, all the rams which leap on the flocks are streaked, speckled, and mottled, for I have seen all that Laḇ

¹³ ‘I am the Ě

¹⁴ And Raḥ

¹⁵ “Are we not reckoned by him as strangers? For he has sold us, and also entirely consumed our silver.

¹⁶ “For all the wealth which Elohim has taken from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, do whatever Elohim has told you.”

¹⁷ So Yaʽ

¹⁸ and he drove off all his livestock and all his possessions which he had acquired, his property of the livestock which he had acquired in Paddan Aram, to go to his father Yitsḥ

¹⁹ And when Laḇ

²⁰ And Yaʽ

²¹ And he fled with all that he had. And he rose up and passed over the river, and headed toward the mountains of Gilʽ

²² And on the third day Laḇ

²³ Then he took his brothers with him and pursued him for seven days’ journey, and he overtook him in the mountains of Gilʽ

²⁴ But in a dream by night Elohim came to Laḇ

²⁵ Then Laḇ

²⁶ And Laḇ

²⁷ “Why did you flee secretly and deceive me, and not inform me, and I would have sent you away with joy and songs, with tambourine and lyre?

²⁸ “And you did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters. Now you have been foolish to do this.

²⁹ “It is in the power of my hand to do evil to you, but the Elohim of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Guard yourself, that you do not speak to Yaʽ

³⁰ “And now you have gone because you greatly long for your father’s house, but why did you steal my mighty ones?”

³¹ And Yaʽ

³² “With whomever you find your mighty ones, do not let him live. In the presence of our brothers, see for yourself what is with me and take it with you.” For Yaʽ

³³ And Laḇ

³⁴ Now Raḥ

³⁵ And she said to her father, “Let it not displease my master that I am unable to rise before you, for the way of women is with me.” And he searched but did not find the house idols.

³⁶ And Yaʽ

³⁷ “Now that you have searched all my goods what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my brothers and your brothers, and let them decide between the two of us!

³⁸ “These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried their young, and I have not eaten the rams of your sheep.

³⁹ “That which was torn by beasts I did not bring to you, I myself bore the loss of it. You required it from my hand, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

⁴⁰ “Thus I was! By day the heat 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 Elohim of my father, the Elohim of Aḇ

⁴³ And Laḇ

⁴⁴ “And now, come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and it shall be a witness between you and me.”

⁴⁵ So Yaʽ

⁴⁶ And Yaʽ

⁴⁷ And Laḇ

⁴⁸ And Laḇ

⁴⁹ also Mitspah, because he said, “Let יהוה  watch between you and me when we are out of each other’s sight.

⁵⁰ “If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us; see, Elohim is witness between you and me!”

⁵¹ And Laḇ

⁵² “This heap is a witness, and this standing column is a witness, that I do not pass beyond this heap to you, and you do not pass beyond this heap and this standing column to me, for evil.

⁵³ “The Elohim of Aḇ

⁵⁴ And Yaʽ

⁵⁵ And Laḇ