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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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Yacốp Lúh Tễ Laban

¹Yacốp sâng noau pai máh con samiang Laban atỡng neq: “Yacốp khoiq ĩt nheq máh mun mpoaq hái. Cỗ nhơ tễ mun mpoaq hái án cỡt sốc bữn.”
²Cớp Yacốp hữm mứt pahỡm Laban, cũq án, tỡ bữn noâng riang tễ tangái nhũang. ³Chơ Yiang Sursĩ atỡng Yacốp neq: “Mới chu loah pỡ cruang achúc achiac cớp sâu mới. Cứq ễ pỡq cớp mới.”
⁴Ngkíq Yacốp ớn noau arô Rachel cớp Lê-a toâq pỡ ruang charán án ỡt. ⁵Yacốp atỡng bar náq ki neq: “Cứq dáng lứq, mpoaq anhia bữn mứt pahỡm tỡ bữn o noâng chóq cứq riang tễ nhũang. Ma toau sanua, Yiang Sursĩ mpoaq cứq sang ỡt níc cớp cứq. ⁶Anhia dáng lứq tê, nheq rangứh rahỡ cứq táq ranáq yỗn mpoaq anhia, ⁷ma noâng án lôp cứq sa‑ữi trỗ na án palớt tứng-atooc cóng cứq. Ma Yiang Sursĩ tỡ yỗn án táq ngkíq chóq cứq. ⁸Khân mpoaq anhia pai charán chĩr cỡt pún cứq, ki máh charán ki la chĩr nheq. Khân mpoaq anhia pai máh charán clor cỡt pún cứq, ki máh charán ki la clor nheq. ⁹Ngkíq Yiang Sursĩ khoiq ĩt máh charán mpoaq anhia, chơ yỗn cứq ễn. ¹⁰Bữn muoi trỗ, toâq ngư máh charán ramoâng, cứq rláu mpáu. Tâng rláu mpáu ki cứq hữm mbễq tangcáh clor cớp chĩr ỡt ramoâng cớp mbễq sang‑ỗng. ¹¹Tâng parnáu ki, cứq hữm ranễng Yiang Sursĩ atỡng cứq neq: ‘Yacốp ơi!’
“Cứq ta‑ỡi: ‘Ơq! Cứq ỡt nnâi.’
¹²“Ranễng ki atỡng cứq neq: ‘Mới tapoang achỗn. Cứq táq yỗn máh mbễq tangcáh clor cớp chĩr ramoâng cớp mbễq sang‑ỗng, yuaq cứq dáng tễ ranáq Laban táq chóq mới. ¹³Cứq la Yiang Sursĩ ca khoiq ramóh mới tâng ntốq Bet-el. Ntốq ki mới khoiq tốh dỡq nsễng tâng ngôl dŏq cỡt tếc chiau sang yỗn cứq, chơ mới parkhán muoi ramứh cớp cứq. Sanua cóq mới thrũan, cớp loŏh toâp tễ cruang nâi chu loah pỡ cruang mpiq mới canỡt mới.’”
¹⁴Moâm Yacốp pai ngkíq, Rachel cớp Lê-a pai neq: “Hái tỡ bữn ngcuang roap noâng mun tễ mpoaq hái. ¹⁵Mpoaq hái nhêng chu hái la nŏ́q cũai tamoi toâq tễ cruang canŏ́h; khoiq án chếq chơ hái, cớp án phŏ́ng talốh nheq máh práq ki. ¹⁶Dũ ramứh Yiang Sursĩ khoiq ĩt tễ mpoaq hái, ki cỡt khong hái cớp con hái. Sanua dũ ranáq Yiang Sursĩ khoiq ớn mới táq, ki mới táq.”
^17-18Moâm alới pai ngkíq, Yacốp thrũan pỡq chu I-sac mpoaq án, pỡ cruang Cana-an. Án acŏ́q máh con lacuoi án tâng cloong charán lac‑da. Cớp án dững nheq tữh máh crơng crớu, dếh máh charán án mbỡiq bữn tâng Padan Aram hỡ.
¹⁹Bo ki Laban loŏh cứt sóc cữu, chơ Rachel tuoiq rup yiang khong mpoaq án. ²⁰Ma Yacốp rathũ Laban, la cũai Aram, na án pỡq luoiq, tỡ bữn yỗn Laban dáng án ễ pỡq. ²¹Chơ Yacốp cớp nheq dống sũ án lúh loŏh tễ cruang ki; alới yang crỗng Ơ-phơ-rat, ễ pỡq chu máh dũal cớp cóh cruang Ki-liat.

Laban Rapuai Yacốp

²²Catâm tangái pái, bữn cũai toâq atỡng Laban tễ Yacốp khoiq pỡq luoiq. ²³Ngkíq Laban dững sễm ai án rapuai loah Yacốp. Alới pỡq nheq tapul tangái, chơ satỡm Yacốp tâng máh dũal cớp cóh cruang Ki-liat. ²⁴Tâng sadâu ki, Yiang Sursĩ toâq pỡ Laban na rláu mpáu, chơ atỡng Laban, cũai Aram, neq: “Mới chỗi pai muoi ŏ́c ntrớu chóq Yacốp, o tỡ la tỡ o.”
²⁵Yacốp khoiq ayứng dống aroâiq tâng máh dũal cớp cóh cruang Ki-liat; ma Laban cớp máh sễm ai án ayứng dống aroâiq tâng cóh ki tê. ²⁶Laban pai chóq Yacốp neq: “Nŏ́q mới lôp cứq, cớp parỗn con mansễm cứq, táq ariang noau cớp cũai bo rachíl? ²⁷Nŏ́q mới loŏh luoiq cớp tỡ bữn atỡng yỗn cứq dáng? Khân cứq dáng, ki cứq táq pêl cha bũi yỗn mới pỡq, na triau cacháng, ũat, cớp plóng crơng lampỡiq hỡ. ²⁸Nŏ́q mới tỡ bữn yỗn cứq bữn hũn máh châu cớp con mansễm cứq, dŏq cubán alới? Táq nneq mới khoiq táq ranáq sacũl lứq. ²⁹Cứq bữn chớc têq táq mới. Ma sadâu hái, Yiang Sursĩ achúc achiac mới sang atỡng cứq neq: ‘Mới chỗi pai muoi ŏ́c ntrớu chóq Yacốp, o tỡ la tỡ o chóq Yacốp.’ ³⁰Cứq dáng mới loŏh la cỗ mới yoc ễ chu loah pỡ cruang mpiq mpoaq mới, ma cỗ nŏ́q mới tuoiq ĩt rup yiang dống cứq?”
³¹Yacốp ta‑ỡi neq: “Cứq ngcŏh lứq, yuaq cứq chanchớm anhia ễ ĩt loah con mansễm anhia. ³²Ma tễ rup yiang anhia, ki anhia chuaq; khân anhia ramóh tâng tỗ cũai aléq, cũai ki cóq chĩuq cuchĩt. Nheq máh sễm ai hái ca ỡt bân ntốq nâi pruam hữm nheq tê; khân anhia tamóh crơng anhia, ki anhia ĩt.”
Ma Yacốp tỡ bữn dáng pai Rachel tuoiq ĩt rup yiang ki.
³³Ngkíq Laban mut tâng dống aroâiq Yacốp, cớp dống aroâiq Lê-a. Án mut tâng bar lám dống aroâiq mansễm táq ranáq alới. Ma án tỡ bữn tamóh ntrớu tâng dống ki. Chơ án loŏh tễ dống Lê-a, mut tâng dống Rachel ễn.
³⁴Ma Rachel khoiq cutooq dŏq rup yiang án tuoiq ĩt ki tâng clống racu lac‑da, chơ án tacu tâng pỡng. Laban chi-chuaq dũ ntốq tâng dống ki ma án tỡ tamóh. ³⁵Rachel pai cớp mpoaq án neq: “Cứq con sễq mpoaq táh lôih cứq tỡ bữn têq tayứng, yuaq cứq miaq toâq prêng.”
Moâm nheq Laban chuaq, ma án tỡ tamóh rup yiang dống án.
³⁶Yacốp sâng nsóq mứt, chơ án rasuon cớp Laban neq: “Hếq táq lôih ntrớu chóq anhia, ma anhia rapuai hếq nneq? ³⁷Anhia khoiq ravoât nheq tâng máh crơng crớu dống hếq. Anhia bữn ramóh ntrớu khong anhia tỡ? Choâng moat máh sễm ai hái bar coah, sễq anhia aloŏh crơng ki pỡ nâi yỗn alới sữq anhia cớp hếq. ³⁸Hếq khoiq ỡt cớp anhia nheq bar chít cumo chơ, cớp bán charán yỗn anhia. Máh cumo ki, charán anhia tỡ bữn cỡt cupũn ntrớu. Dếh hếq tỡ nai cha muoi lám ntrớu tễ charán anhia. ³⁹Khân bữn charán cruang cáp cuchĩt charán anhia, hếq tỡ nai dững achu charán ki yỗn anhia; ma hếq culáh loah yỗn anhia charán tễ pún hếq ễn. Khân noau tuoiq charán anhia, tangái tỡ la sadâu, ki anhia yỗn hếq tu. ⁴⁰Tâng tangái hếq chĩuq tiang phũac; tâng sadâu hếq chĩuq sangễt. Hếq ỡt trỗl ramỗih níc. ⁴¹Cớp nheq bar chít cumo nâi hếq ỡt tâng dống anhia, la ngkíq níc. Hếq táq ranáq yỗn anhia muoi chít la pỗn cumo, cỗ hếq yoc ễ bữn bar lám con mansễm anhia. Cớp tapoât cumo ễn hếq táq ranáq yỗn anhia cỗ hếq yoc ễ bữn charán. Ma anhia palớt tứng-atooc cóng hếq muoi chít trỗ. ⁴²Khân Yiang Sursĩ achúc achiac hếq A-praham cớp I-sac sang ma tỡ bữn rachuai, ngkíq anhia khoiq ễ tuih hếq yỗn pỡq miat tễ dống anhia. Ma Yiang Sursĩ khoiq hữm ŏ́c túh hếq chĩuq. Ngkíq yuaq, Yiang Sursĩ sưoq anhia tâng sadâu hái.”

Yacốp Cớp Laban Parkhán Parnơi

⁴³Chơ Laban ta‑ỡi Yacốp neq: “Con mansễm nâi la con hếq; máh carnễn nâi la châu hếq; cớp nheq tữh charán nâi la charán hếq. Nheq máh crơng anhia hữm la khong hếq nheq. Ma sanua, ntrớu hếq têq táq yỗn máh con cớp châu hếq? ⁴⁴Sanua cóq hái parkhán parnơi, cóq anhia cớp hếq pruam táq tếc parkhán parnơi.”
⁴⁵Ngkíq Yacốp ĩt tamáu, chơ án ayứng táq ngôl. ⁴⁶Cớp án pai chóq sễm ai án neq: “Anhia tỗiq ĩt tamáu dững pỡ nâi!”
Ngkíq sễm ai án tỗiq cớp dững cróh tamáu ki muoi ntốq; chơ alới cha pêl bũi parnơi cheq cantróh tamáu ki. ⁴⁷Laban amứh ntốq ki la Yê-ca Saha-duta; ma Yacốp amứh ntốq ki la Calit.⚓
⁴⁸Laban pai neq: “Tangái nâi, cantróh tamáu nâi cỡt tếc anhia cớp hếq parkhán parnơi.”
Yuaq ngkíq alới dŏq ntốq ki la Calit. ⁴⁹Cớp ntốq ki bữn ramứh Mit-ba⚓ hỡ; cỗ Laban pai neq: “Yiang Sursĩ ỡt nhêng anhia cớp hếq, toâq hái ỡt miar ntốq. ⁵⁰Khân anhia dững túh con mansễm hếq, tỡ la ĩt lacuoi tamái ễn, tam tỡ bữn noau nhêng salĩq, ma cóq anhia sanhữ, lứq bữn Yiang Sursĩ toâp nhêng níc anhia cớp hếq.”
⁵¹Laban atỡng Yacốp ễn neq: “Anhia nhêng chu cantróh tamáu cớp ngôl tamáu nâi, hếq khoiq chóh dŏq tâng mpứng dĩ anhia cớp hếq. ⁵²Cantróh tamáu cớp ngôl tamáu nâi cỡt tếc yỗn hếq tỡ têq luat tễ ntốq nâi pỡq rachíl anhia, cớp anhia tỡ têq luat tễ ntốq nâi pỡq rachíl hếq. ⁵³Sễq Yiang Sursĩ achuaih anhia A-praham sang cớp achuaih cứq Nahor sang rasữq anhia cớp hếq.”
Chơ Yacốp thễ dũan nhơ ramứh Yiang Sursĩ mpoaq án I-sac sang. ⁵⁴Yacốp kiac charán dŏq sang yỗn Yiang Sursĩ tâng cruang cóh ki, cớp án mơi nheq tữh sễm ai án toâq cha parnơi. Moâm alới cha, chơ alới bếq loâng ngki tâng sadâu ki.
⁵⁵Laban tamỡ tễ cláih. Án hũn máh châu cớp con mansễm án. Cớp án câu yỗn alới bữn ŏ́c bốn hỡ. Moâm ki án loŏh tễ alới, píh chu loah pỡ dống án.