# Genesis 31

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/31

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. He heard the words of Laban's sons saying, "Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and from what was our father's he has made all this glory."
2. Jacob saw that Laban's face was not the same toward him as formerly.
3. Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kin, and I will be with you."
4. Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to his flock in the field.
5. He said to them, “I see your father’s face, that it is not toward me as yesterday and the day before, but my father’s God has been with me.”
6. You know that with all my might I have served your father.
7. Your father deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.
8. If he said thus, "The speckled shall be your wages," then all the flock bore speckled. And if he said thus, "The streaked shall be your wages," then all the flock bore streaked.
9. God has taken away your father's livestock and given them to me.
10. It happened at the time the flock conceived that I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the he-goats mounting the flock were ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
11. God's angel said to me in the dream, "Jacob," and I said, "Here I am."
12. He said, "Now lift your eyes and see: all the he-goats leaping on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you."
13. I am the God of Bethel, 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.
14. Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there any share or heritage left for us in our father's house?"
15. Hasn't he regarded us as foreigners? He has sold us and utterly devoured our money too.
16. For all the riches God has rescued from our father belong to us and our children; now then, everything God has said to you, do.
17. Jacob arose and lifted his sons and his wives onto the camels.
18. He drove away all his livestock and all his property that he had acquired, his purchased livestock that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.
19. Laban had gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stole her father's teraphim.
20. Jacob stole the heart of Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing.
21. He fled with all that he had, arose, crossed the river, and set his face toward Mount Gilead.
22. On the third day, Laban was told that Jacob had fled.
23. He took his kinsmen with him and pursued him seven days along the way, overtaking him on Mount Gilead.
24. God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, "Watch yourself lest you speak to Jacob, good or bad."
25. Laban overtook Jacob. Jacob had pitched his tent on the mountain, and Laban pitched with his brothers on the mountain of Gilead.
26. Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you stole my heart and drove my daughters like captives of the sword?"
27. Why did you flee secretly, steal away from me, and not tell me, so I might have sent you off with joy, songs, timbrel, and harp?
28. You didn't let me kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you've acted foolishly in doing so.
29. There is power in my hand to do evil to you, but the God of your father said to me last night, "Watch yourself lest you speak to Jacob good or bad."
30. Now you have gone because you greatly longed for your father's house—why have you stolen my gods?
31. Jacob responded to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you seize your daughters from me.'"
32. Whomever you find your gods with will not live. Before our brothers, identify what is with me that belongs to you, and take it. Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
33. Laban entered Jacob's tent, Leah's tent, and the tent of the two maidservants, but did not find them. He left Leah's tent and entered Rachel's.
34. Rachel took the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban searched the whole tent but did not find them.
35. She said to her father, "Let my lord not be angry, for I cannot stand before you—the way of women is upon me." He searched, but did not find the teraphim.
36. Jacob became angry and contended with Laban. Jacob replied to Laban, "What is my transgression? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?"
37. Since you have searched all my goods, what have you found from all your household goods? Set it here before my brothers and your brothers, that they may judge between us two.
38. These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and she-goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.
39. I did not bring to you any animal torn by beasts; I myself bore the blame for it—from my hand you required it, whether stolen from me by day or stolen from me by night.
40. This is how I was: drought consumed me by day, and frost by night; sleep fled from my eyes.
41. These twenty years I served you in your house, fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you 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, you would have sent me away empty by now. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.
43. Laban answered Jacob: "The daughters are my daughters, the sons my sons, the flocks my flocks, and all that you see is mine—what can I do today to these my daughters or to their sons whom they have borne?"
44. Now come, let us cut a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you.
45. Jacob took a stone and raised it as a pillar.
46. Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones." They took stones, made a heap, and ate there by the heap.
47. Laban called it Jegar-Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
48. Laban said, “This heap is a witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed.
49. And Mizpah, for he said, “May Yahweh watch between me and you when we are hidden one from another.”
50. If you mistreat my daughters, or take wives in addition to my daughters, no one is with us—see, God is witness between me and you.
51. Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar that I have set between me and you."
52. This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not cross over this heap to you, and that you will not cross over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
53. The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.
54. Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his brothers to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night on the mountain.
55. Laban got up early in the morning, kissed his sons and his daughters, blessed them, left, and returned home.

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[Genesis 30](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/30.md)
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