The Holy Ivri Heritage Bible

1And Ya’akov heard the words of the sons of Lavan, saying, “Ya’akov has taken all that was our father’s, and of our father’s property has he gotten all this glory.” 2And Ya’akov saw the countenance of Lavan, and behold it was not toward him as before. 3And Yahuah said to Ya’akov, “Return to the land of your father, and to your family, and I will be with you.” 4And Ya’akov sent and called Leah and Rachel to the plain where the flocks were. 5And he said to them, “I see the face of your father, that it is not toward me as before, but the Elohim of my father has been with me. 6And you also know that with all my might I have served your father. 7But your father deceived me, and changed my wages for the ten lambs, yet Elohim gave him not power to hurt me. 8If he said, ‘The speckled shall be your reward,’ then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said, ‘The white shall be your reward,’ then all the flock bore white. 9So Elohim has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. 10And it came to pass when the flock conceived, that I saw in a dream, and behold the rams leaping upon the flock were speckled, variegated, and spotted. 11And the malakh Elohim spoke to me in a dream, saying, “Ya’akov.” And I said, “Hineni [Here I am].” 12And he said, “Lift up your eyes and see, all the rams leaping upon the flock are speckled, variegated, and spotted; for I have seen all that Lavan does to you. 13I am the Elohim of Beit-El, where you anointed a pillar and vowed a vow to Me. Now arise, leave this land, and return to the land of your nativity, and I will be with you.” 14And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, “Have we yet a portion or inheritance in our father’s house? 15Are we not considered strangers by him? For he has sold us, and devoured our money. 16All the wealth which Elohim has taken from our father belongs to us and to our children; now then, do whatever Elohim has said to you.” 17And Ya’akov arose and set his wives and his children upon camels. 18And he carried away all his possessions and his store, which he had gotten in Aram, to go to Yitzchak his father in the land of Kena’an. 19And Lavan went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father’s teraphim [eidola / household idols]. 20And Ya’akov deceived Lavan the Aramean, in that he did not tell him that he fled. 21So he fled with all that he had, crossed the River, and went toward Mount Gil’ad. 22It was told Lavan on the third day that Ya’akov had fled. 23He took his brothers with him, pursued him seven days’ journey, and overtook him in Mount Gil’ad. 24And Elohim came to Lavan the Aramean in a dream by night, and said, “Take heed that you speak not to Ya’akov evil things.” 25Lavan overtook Ya’akov; and Ya’akov pitched his tent in the mountain; and Lavan stationed his brothers in Mount Gil’ad. 26And Lavan said to Ya’akov, “What have you done, that you fled secretly, pillaged me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword? 27If you had told me, I would have sent you away with joy, with songs, timbrel, and harp. 28You did not allow me to kiss my sons and daughters. You have done foolishly. 29It is in my power to harm you; but the Elohim of your father spoke to me yesterday, saying, ‘Take heed that you speak not evil words to Ya’akov.’ 30Now go your way, since you longed to return to your father’s house; but why have you stolen my gods?” 31And Ya’akov answered, “Because I was afraid; for I said, lest you take your daughters from me by force. 32With whomever you find your gods, let him not live. Before our brothers, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” But Ya’akov did not know that Rachel had stolen them. 33Lavan searched Leah’s tent, Ya’akov’s tent, the tents of the two maidservants, and found them not. He entered Rachel’s tent. 34Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Lavan searched but did not find them. 35She said to her father, “Do not be angry, my lord, that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the teraphim. 36Then Ya’akov was angry and contended with Lavan: “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have pursued me? 37You have searched all my goods; what have you found? Set it here before my brothers and your brothers, that they may judge between us. 38These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and she-goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flock. 39That which was torn by beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss myself. You required it of me, whether stolen by day or by night. 40Thus I was: by day the heat consumed me, by night the frost, and sleep fled from my eyes. 41These twenty years have I been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years amongst your sheep, and you did falsely rate my wages for ten lambs. 42Unless the Elohim of my father, the Elohim of Avraham, and the Fear of Yitzchak, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. Elohim has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.” 43Lavan answered: “The daughters are my daughters, the children my children, the flock my flock, and all you see is mine. But what can I do this day to my daughters or their children? 44Now come, let us make a berit [covenant], you and I, and let it be a witness between us.” 45So Ya’akov took a stone and set it up as a matzevah [stone pillar/monument]. 46Ya’akov said to his brothers, “Gather stones.” They took stones, made a heap, and ate there by the heap. 47Lavan called it Yegar-Sahadutha [Heap of Testimony], but Ya’akov called it Gal-Ed [Witness Heap]. 48And Lavan said, “This heap is a witness between me and you this day.” Therefore its name was called Gal-Ed. 49And Mizpah, for he said, “May Yahuah watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another. 50If you afflict my daughters, or take wives besides my daughters, though no man is with us, Elohim is an ed [witness] between me and you.” 51Lavan said to Ya’akov, “Behold this heap and pillar, which I have set between me and you. 52This heap is witness, and this pillar is witness, that I will not pass beyond this heap to you, and you will not pass beyond it to me, for harm. 53The Elohim of Avraham and the Elohim of Nahor judge between us.” And Ya’akov swore by the Fear of his father Yitzchak. 54Ya’akov offered a zevach [sacrifice/communal meal] on the mountain, and called his brothers to eat bread. They ate bread and stayed all night on the mountain. 55In the morning Lavan rose, kissed his sons and daughters, and blessed them. Then Lavan departed and returned to his place.