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Jacob Flees from Laban

¹Now Jacob heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has acquired all this ⚓wealth.” ²And Jacob saw the ⚓countenance of Laban, and indeed it was not ⚓favorable toward him as before. ³Then the Lord said to Jacob, ⚓“Return to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will ⚓be with you.”
⁴So 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 favorable toward me as before; but the God of my father ⚓has been with me. ⁶And ⚓you know that with all my might I have served your father. ⁷Yet 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 flocks bore speckled. And if he said thus: ⚓‘The streaked shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore streaked. ⁹So God has ⚓taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.
¹⁰“And it happened, at the time when the flocks conceived, that I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which leaped upon the flocks were streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted. ¹¹Then ⚓the Angel of God spoke to me in a dream, saying, ‘Jacob.’ And I said, ‘Here I am.’ ¹²And He said, ‘Lift your eyes now and see, all the rams which leap on the flocks are streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted; for ⚓I have seen all that Laban is doing to you. ¹³I am the God of Bethel, ⚓where you anointed the pillar and where you made a vow to Me. Now ⚓arise, get out of this land, and return to the land of your family.’ ”
¹⁴Then 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 considered strangers by him? For ⚓he has sold us, and also completely consumed our money. ¹⁶For all these riches which God has taken from our father are really ours and our children’s; now then, whatever God has said to you, do it.”
¹⁷Then Jacob rose and set his sons and his wives on camels. ¹⁸And he carried away all his livestock and all his possessions which he had gained, his acquired livestock which he had gained in Padan Aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of ⚓Canaan. ¹⁹Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen the ⚓household idols that were her father’s. ²⁰And Jacob stole away, unknown to Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee. ²¹So he fled with all that he had. He arose and crossed the river, and ⚓headed toward the mountains of Gilead.

Laban Pursues Jacob

²²And Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled. ²³Then he took ⚓his brethren with him and pursued him for seven days’ journey, and he overtook him in the mountains of Gilead. ²⁴But God ⚓had come to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, “Be careful that you ⚓speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.”
²⁵So Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountains, and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountains of Gilead.
²⁶And Laban said to Jacob: “What have you done, that you have stolen away unknown to me, and ⚓carried away my daughters like captives taken with the sword? ²⁷Why did you flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and not tell me; for I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with timbrel and harp? ²⁸And you did not allow me ⚓to kiss my sons and my daughters. Now ⚓you have done foolishly in so doing. ²⁹It is in my power to do you harm, but the ⚓God of your father spoke to me ⚓last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.’ ³⁰And now you have surely gone because you greatly long for your father’s house, but why did you ⚓steal my gods?”
³¹Then Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was ⚓afraid, for I said, ‘Perhaps you would take your daughters from me by force.’ ³²With whomever you find your gods, ⚓do not let him live. In the presence of our brethren, identify what I have of yours and take it with you.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
³³And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the two maids’ tents, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent. ³⁴Now Rachel had taken the household idols, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. And Laban searched all about the tent but did not find them. ³⁵And she said to her father, “Let it not displease my lord that I cannot ⚓rise before you, for the manner of women is with me.” And he searched but did not find the household idols.
³⁶Then Jacob was angry and rebuked Laban, and Jacob answered and said to Laban: “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued me? ³⁷Although you have searched all my things, what part of your household things have you found? Set it here before my brethren and your brethren, that they may judge between us both! ³⁸These 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 flock. ³⁹⚓That which was torn by beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it. ⚓You required it from my hand, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. ⁴⁰There I was! In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes. ⁴¹Thus I have been in your house twenty years; 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-handed. ⚓God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and ⚓rebuked you last night.”

Laban’s Covenant with Jacob

⁴³And Laban answered and said to Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and this flock is my flock; all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne? ⁴⁴Now therefore, come, ⚓let us make a covenant, ⚓you and I, and let it be a witness between you and me.”
⁴⁵So Jacob ⚓took a stone and set it up as a pillar. ⁴⁶Then Jacob said to his brethren, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap. ⁴⁷Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. ⁴⁸And Laban said, ⚓“This heap is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore its name was called Galeed, ⁴⁹also ⚓Mizpah, because he said, “May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent one from another. ⁵⁰If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us—see, God is witness between you and me!”
⁵¹Then Laban said to Jacob, “Here is this heap and here is this pillar, which I have placed between you and me. ⁵²This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this heap to you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. ⁵³The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their father ⚓judge between us.” And Jacob ⚓swore by ⚓the Fear of his father Isaac. ⁵⁴Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed all night on the mountain. ⁵⁵And early in the morning Laban arose, and ⚓kissed his sons and daughters and ⚓blessed them. Then Laban departed and ⚓returned to his place.

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Y-Yakôb Du Bơh Y-Laban

¹Y-Yakôb tăng nau phung kon bu klâu Y-Laban ngơi lah: "Y-Yakôb sŏk jêh lĕ rngôch ndơ mbơ̆ he; jêh ri ma ndơ mbơ̆ he yơh păng jêng ndrŏng." ²Y-Yakôb saơ Y-Laban mâu hôm rŏng ma păng ôh. ³Jêh ri Yêhôva lah ma Y-Yakôb: "Sĭt hom ta n'gor phung che may jêh ri ma phung mpôl băl jêh ri gâp mra gŭ ndrel ma may." ⁴Y-Yakôb đă bu hăn kuăl H'Rachel jêh ri H'Lêa hăn ta mir djôt biăp păng. ⁵Păng lah ma phung ur păng: "Gâp saơ mbơ̆ khân ay mâu hôm rŏng ma gâp ôh nâm bu lor ƀiălah Brah Ndu mbơ̆ gâp gŭ ndrel ma gâp jêh. ⁶Khân ay gĭt jêh gâp pah kan jêh ma lĕ nau katang gâp ma mbơ̆ khân ay. ⁷Ƀiălah mbơ̆ khân ay ndơm jêh gâp, tâm rgâl jât tơ̆ ndơ nkhôm gâp; ƀiălah Brah Ndu mâu ăn păng ƀư ma gâp ôh." ⁸Tơ lah păng lah: "Biăp, be rvanh mra jêng ndơ nkhôm may; pô ri lĕ rngôch biăp be deh rvanh. ⁹Pô ri Brah Ndu sŏk jêh biăp be mbơ̆ khân ay jêh ri ăn ma gâp. ¹⁰Dôl biăp tâm gar gâp n'gơr măt uănh tâm nau mbơi; aơ be nkuăng tâm groi đah be me jêng rvanh ƀrưnh, jêh ri ƀlak. ¹¹Tông mpăr ueh Brah Ndu lah ma gâp tâm nau mbơi: "Ơ Y-Yakôb!, Gâp lah: "Aơ ta aơ gâp. ¹²Păng lah: "N'gơr măt may jêh ri uănh: lĕ rngôch be nkuăng tâm groi đah be me jêng rvanh ƀrưnh, jêh ri ƀlak; yorlah gâp saơ lĕ nau Y-Laban ƀư ma may. ¹³Gâp jêng Brah Ndu Bêthel ntŭk may nkhŭt dak ƀâu kah ta kalơ ndơ tâm mbên, ntŭk may ƀư jêh nau ton ma gâp. Aƀaơ aơ, dâk hom may, luh bơh n'gor aơ jêh ri sĭt ta n'gor bu deh ma may. ¹⁴H'Rachel jêh ri H'Lêa plơ̆ lah ma păng: "Hôm geh lĕ ma hên du kô̆ mâu lah drăp ndơn tâm ngih mbơ̆ hên? ¹⁵Mâu di hĕ păng kơp hên tâm ban ma bu năch? Yorlah păng tăch jêh hên, jêh ri sa jêh prăk bu rvăt hên! ¹⁶Lĕ drăp ndơ Brah Ndu sŏk bơh mbơ̆ hên jêng ndơ hên jêh ri ma phung kon hên. Aƀaơ aơ, ƀư lĕ mâm nau Brah Ndu đă may ƀư."
¹⁷Pô ri Y-Yakôb dâk, jêh ri păng ăn phung kon bu klâu jêh ri phung ur păng ncho seh samô. ¹⁸Păng ndjôt leo lĕ mpô mpa păng, ndơ bun jêh, phung păng geh jêh tĭng nâm păng sŏk tâm n'gor Padan Aram, ŭch hăn ta Y-Isăk mbơ̆ păng tâm n'gor Kanaan. ¹⁹Y-Laban hăn nkăp rsau biăp păng, jêh ri H'Rachel ntŭng rup brah ngih mbơ̆ păng. ²⁰Y-Yakôb du ntŭng bơh Y-Laban bunuyh Aram. Păng mâu lah ôh ma păng mĭn du. ²¹păng du ma lĕ rngôch mpa păng geh. Păng dâk jêh ri rgăn dak krong Ơprat, jêh ri păng hăn mơ pa yôk Gilêat.

Y-Laban Tĭng Y-Yakôb

²²Ta nar tal pe bu mbơh ma Y-Laban nau Y-Yakôb du jêh. ²³Pô ri păng sŏk ndŭl mpôl păng ndrel ma păng jêh ri tĭng Y-Yakôb pơh nar hăn trong. Păng dăch ban Y-Yakôb ta yôk Gilêat. ²⁴Brah Ndu hăn ta Y-Laban bunuyh Aram tâm nau mbơi dôl măng jêh ri lah ma păng: "Njrăng hom ma may nơm. Lơi ngơi ma Y-Yakôb nau ueh mâu lah nau mhĭk ôh."
²⁵Y-Laban ban Y-Yakôb. Y-Yakôb pâng rdâk jêh ngih bok păng ta n'gor mpứ yôk, jêh ri Y-Laban ndrel ma phung păng rdâk đŏng ngih bok ta n'gor mpứ yôk Gilêat. ²⁶Y-Laban lah ma Y-Yakôb: "Moh may ƀư jêh? May du ntŭng bơh gâp jêh ri may rdu phung kon bu ur nâm bu phung bu nă bu nhŭp ma đao. ²⁷Mâm ƀư may du ntŭng jêh ri sŏk ndô ndơ gâp, mâu mbơh ma gâp ôh, gay ma gâp dơi ăn may hăn ma nau maak, nau mprơ ma bâr gâr jê̆ jêh ri bâr gong rêng? ²⁸Mâu lĕ may ăn gâp chŭm phung kon bu klâu jêh ri phung kon bu ur gâp. Ma nau rluk may ƀư pô nây. ²⁹Ti gâp dơi ƀư mhĭk ma may, ƀiălah Brah Ndu mbơ̆ may ngơi jêh đah gâp măng ndơh lah: "Njrăng hom ma may nơm, lơi ngơi ma Y-Yakôb nau ueh mâu lah nau mhĭk ôh. ³⁰Aƀaơ aơ may du yor may klâng ngăn ma ngih mbơ̆ may ƀiălah mâm ƀư may ntŭng rup brah gâp?" ³¹Y-Yakôb plơ̆ lah ma Y-Laban: "Yorlah gâp klach lah may mra sŏk sĭt phung kon bu ur may bơh gâp. ³²Ƀiălah ma nau nơm may saơ rup brah may, nơm nây mâu mra gŭ rêh ôh. Ta năp phung oh nâu he ăn may sek uănh moh ndơ jêng ndơ may gŭ ndrel gâp, jêh ri sŏk ndơ nây. Yorlah Y-Yakôb mâu gĭt ôh H'Rachel ntŭng jêh rup brah nây.
³³Y-Laban lăp tâm ngih bok Y-Yakôb, ngih bok H'Lêa jêh ri tâm ngih bok bar hê n'hat na bu ur, ƀiălah păng mâu saơ ndơ nây ôh. Păng lah tă bơh ngih bok H'Lêa jêh ri lăp tâm ngih H'Rachel. ³⁴H'Rachel sŏk jêh rup brah jêh ri dơm ndơ nây tâm dâng ưn seh samô, jêh ri păng săp gŭ ta kalơ rup brah nây. Y-Laban rhi tâm lĕ ngih bok nây, ƀiălah mâu saơ ndơ nây ôh. ³⁵H'Rachel lah ma mbơ̆ păng: "Lơi ăn kôranh gâp nuih ôh, yorlah gâp mâu dơi dâk ta năp may, yorlah tât jêh ma gâp tĭng nâm nau vay phung bu ur." Păng joi ƀiălah păng mâu dơi saơ ôh rup brah. ³⁶Y-Yakôb ji nuih jêh ri nduyh Y-Laban, Y-Yakôb lah ma Y-Laban: "Moh nau vay gâp rlau? Moh nau tih gâp kŏ may tĭng gâp ma nau nuih? ³⁷May rhi lĕ ndơ gâp? May saơ lĕ ndơ may nơm? Dơm ndơ nây ta aơ ta năp phung oh nâu gâp, jêh ri ta năp phung oh nâu may, gay ma khân păng dơi phat dôih ndrăng he bar hê. ³⁸Nĕ, bar jât năm jêh gâp gŭ ndrel ma may. Biăp me may jêh ri be me may mâu mâp rlêh ôh, jêh ri gâp mâu mâp sa ôh biăp nkuăng may. ³⁹Gâp mâu mâp njŭn ôh ma may biăp mpa bri hêk sa. Gâp nơm dơn nau roh nây. May ăn gâp trok jêh gĭt lah bu ntŭng măng mâu lah dôl nar. ⁴⁰Pô aơ gâp jêng: duh nđat gâp dôl nar jêh ri kăt ƀư krăp gâp dôl măng jêh ri gâp mâu dơi bêch ôh. ⁴¹Aơ, bar jât năm aơ gâp gŭ tâm ngih may, gâp pah jêh kan ma may jât ma puăn năm gay ma geh bar hê kon bu ur may, jêh ri prau năm ma biăp may, jêh ri may tâm rgâl jêh jât tơ̆ ndơ nkhôm gâp. ⁴²Tơ lah Brah Ndu mbơ̆ gâp, Brah Ndu Y-Abraham, Nơm Y-Isăk klach yơk, mâu gŭ mpeh pa gâp, nanê̆ may ăn gâp sĭt ti dơm. Brah Ndu saơ jêh nau knap gâp jêh ri kan ti gâp, jêh ri păng nduyh may măng ndơh.

Nau Tâm Rnglăp Y-Laban Đah Y-Yakôb

⁴³Y-Laban plơ̆ lah ma Y-Yakôb: "Phung kon bu ur nây jêng phung kon bu ur gâp, phung kon nây jêng kon gâp, biăp nây jêng biăp gâp jêh ri lĕ rngôch ndơ may saơ nây jêng ndơ gâp. Moh gâp dơi ƀư nar aơ ma phung aơ, phung kon bu ur gâp mâu lah ma phung kon khân păng deh jêh?" ⁴⁴Aƀaơ aơ, lŏng he, ăn he ƀư nau tâm rnglăp gâp đah may, jêh ri ăn nau nây jêng nau mbơh ăn ngăn may đah gâp." ⁴⁵Pô ri Y-Yakôb sŏk leo glo lŭ tâm păng jêng ndơ tâm mbên. ⁴⁶Y-Yakôb lah ma phung oh nâu păng: "Bun lŭ" khân păng sŏk bun lŭ, jêh ri sông sa ta meng lŭ bun nây. ⁴⁷Y-Laban rnha ntŭk nây Jêgar Saha dutha, ƀiălah Y-Yakôb rnha ntŭk nây Galet. ⁴⁸Y-Laban lah: "Nku bun lŭ aơ jêng nau mbơh nanê̆ ngăn ndrăng may đah gâp nar aơ." Yor nây bu rnha ntŭk nây Galet. ⁴⁹Jêh ri Mispa yorlah Y-Laban lah: "Ăn Yêhôva mât mray ndrăng may đah gâp dôl he gŭ êng êng. ⁵⁰Tơ lah may ƀư mhĭk ma phung kon bu ur gâp, mâu lah tơ lah may sŏk phung ur êng, nđâp tơ lah mâu geh bunuyh ôh gŭ ndrel he, ăn may kah gĭt Brah Ndu yơh jêng nơm saơ ndrăng may đah gâp."
⁵¹Y-Laban lah ma Y-Yakôb: "Ăn may saơ nku bun lŭ nây jêh ri ndơ tâm mbên gâp ndâk jêh ta nklang gâp đah may. ⁵²Nku bun lŭ aơ jêh ri ndơ tâm mbên aơ jêng nau mbơh ma gâp mâu mra rgăn nku bun lŭ aơ hăn ta may ôh, jêh ri may mâu mra rgăn ôh ndơ tâm mbên aơ văch ŭch ƀư mhĭk ma gâp. ⁵³Ăn Brah Ndu Y-Abraham, Brah Ndu Y-Nahôr jêh ri Brah Ndu mbơ̆ khân păng phat dôih ndrăng he." Jêh ri mbơ̆ păng klach yơk. ⁵⁴Y-Yakôb nhhơr ndơ ƀư brah ta yôk jêh ri păng kuăl phung oh nâu păng sông sa; jêh ri khân păng bêch du măng ta yôk nây.
⁵⁵Ơm ôi Y-Laban dâk, chŭm phung kon sau jêh ri phung kon bu ur păng. Păng mât ton ma kon sau păng jêh ri hăn sĭt ta ntŭk păng nơm.