Genesis 31

MLV(i) 1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's and he has gotten all this glory of what was our father's. 2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and behold, it was not toward him as formerly.
3 And Jehovah said to Jacob, Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred and I will be with you.
4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock, 5 and said to them, I see your* father's countenance, that it is not toward me as formerly, but the God of my father has been with me. 6 And you* know that with all my power I have served your* father.
7 And your* father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me. 8 If he said thus, The speckled will be your wages, then all the flock bore speckled and if he said thus, The striped will be your wages, then all the flock bore striped. 9 Thus God has taken away the cattle of your* father and given them to me.
10 And it happened at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the male-goats which leaped upon the flock were striped, speckled and grayed. 11 And the messenger of God said to me in the dream, Jacob.
And I said, Here I am.
12 And he said, Lift up now your eyes and see, all the male-goats which leap upon the flock are striped, speckled and grayed, because 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, get out from this land and return to the land of your nativity.
14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? 15 Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us and has also devoured our money. 16 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.
17 Then Jacob rose up and set his sons and his wives upon the camels. 18 And he carried away all his cattle and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his spoil, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan.
19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep and Rachel stole the household-idol that was her father's. 20 And Jacob slipped away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he fled. 21 So he fled with all that he had. And he rose up and passed over the River and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled. 23 And he took his brothers with him and pursued after him seven days' journey and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead. 24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night and said to him, Take heed to yourself that you not speak to Jacob either good or bad.
25 And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain. And Laban encamped with his brothers in the mountain of Gilead. 26 And Laban said to Jacob, What have you done, that you have stolen away my heart and carried away my daughters as captives of the sword? 27 Why did you flee secretly and creep away from me and did not tell me, that I might have sent you away with gladness and with songs, with tambourine and with harp, 28 and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.
29 It is in the power of my hand to do you* harm, but the God of your* father spoke to me last night, saying, Take heed to yourself that you not speak to Jacob either good or bad. 30 And now, though you have certainly gone, because you have been very desirous for your father's house, yet why have you stolen my gods?
31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid, because I said, Lest you should take your daughters from me by force. 32 With whomever you find your gods, he will not live, before our brothers. Discern with me what is yours and take it to you. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and into the tent of the two maidservants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah's tent and entered into Rachel's tent. 34 Now Rachel had taken the household-idol and put them in the camel's saddle and sat upon them. And Laban felt around all the tent, but did not find them. 35 And she said to her father, Do not let my lord be furious that I cannot rise up before you, because the manner of women is upon me. And he searched, but did not find the household-idol.
36 And Jacob was furious and contended with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? What is my sin that you have hotly-pursued after me? 37 Since you have felt around all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? 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 ewe-lambs and your female-goats have not cast their young and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks. 39 I did not bring to you what was torn by beasts; I bore the loss of it, you required it of my hand, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
40 Thus I was; in the day the drought 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 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. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.
43 And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters and the sons are my sons and the flocks are my flocks and all that you see is mine. And what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their sons whom they have borne? 44 And now come, let us make a covenant, I and you and let it be for a witness between me and you.
45 And Jacob took a stone and lifted it up for a pillar. 46 And Jacob said to his brothers, Gather stones and they took stones and made a heap. And they ate there by the heap. 47 And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha.
48 And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and you this day. Therefore the name of it was called Galeed, 49 and Mizpah. For he said, May Jehovah watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another, 50 if you will afflict my daughters and if you will take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us, see, God is witness between me and you.
51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap and behold the pillar, which I have set between me and you. 52 This heap is witness and the pillar is witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar for harm to me. 53 The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.
54 And Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his brothers to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed all night on the mountain. 55 And early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them. And Laban departed and returned to his place.