¹雅各思念故鄉雅各聽見拉班的眾子談論，說：“雅各把我們父親所有的都奪去了，他這一切財物，都是從我們父親的財產那裡得來的。”

¹He heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. From that which was our father’s, has he gotten all this wealth.”

²雅各也注意到拉班的臉色，對自己不像從前那樣了。

²Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

³那時，耶和華對雅各說：“你要回到你列祖之地，到你的親族那裡去，我必與你同在。”

³Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

⁴雅各就派人把拉結和利亞叫到田間的羊群那裡去，

⁴Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

⁵對她們說：“我注意到你們父親的臉色，對我不像從前那樣了；但是我父親的　神與我同在。

⁵and said to them, “I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

⁶我盡了我的力量來服事你們的父親，這是你們知道的；

⁶You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

⁷你們的父親卻欺騙了我，十次更改了我的工資；但　神不容許他傷害我。

⁷Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

⁸如果他說：‘有斑點的算是你的工資’，羊群所生的全部都有斑點；如果他說：‘有條紋的算是你的工資’，羊群所生的全部有條紋。

⁸If he said this, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.

⁹這樣，　神把你們父親的牲畜奪來，賜給我了。

⁹Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.

¹⁰有一次，羊群交配的時候，我在夢中舉目觀看，看見爬在母羊身上的公山羊，都是有條紋、有斑點和有花斑的。

¹⁰It happened during mating season that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.

¹¹　神的使者在夢中對我說：‘雅各。’我說：‘我在這裡。’

¹¹The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’

¹²他說：‘你舉目觀看，所有爬在母羊身上的公山羊，都是有條紋、有斑點和有花斑的，因為拉班向你所作的一切，我都看見了。

¹²He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

¹³我就是伯特利的　神，你曾經在那裡用油膏過石柱，又在那裡向我許過願。現在你要起程，離開這地，回到你的親族那裡去吧。’”

¹³I 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 birth.’”

¹⁴拉結和利亞回答雅各，說：“在我們父親的家裡，我們還有可得的分和產業嗎？

¹⁴Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

¹⁵他不是把我們看作外人嗎？因為他把我們賣了，吞沒了我們的身價。

¹⁵Aren’t we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

¹⁶　神從我們父親奪回來的一切財物，都是屬於我們和我們的兒女的。現在　神吩咐你的一切，你只管作吧。”

¹⁶For 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雅各不辭而別於是雅各起來，叫他的兒女和妻子們都騎上駱駝。

¹⁷Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

¹⁸又趕著他所有的牲畜，帶著他所得的一切財物，就是他在巴旦．亞蘭所得的一切牲畜，要到迦南地，他父親以撒那裡去。

¹⁸and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

¹⁹當時拉班剪羊毛去了，拉結就偷了他父親的神像。

¹⁹Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property. that were her father’s.

²⁰雅各瞞著亞蘭人拉班，沒有告訴拉班他將要逃走。

²⁰Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.

²¹於是，雅各帶著他所有的一切逃走了。他起程渡過了大河，面對著基列山走去。

²¹So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

²²拉班追趕雅各到了第三天，有人告訴拉班說雅各逃走了。

²²Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.

²³拉班就帶著自己的眾兄弟追趕他，追了七日的路程，才在基列山把他們追上了。

²³He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

²⁴當天晚上，　神在夢中來到亞蘭人拉班那裡，對他說：“你要小心，不可與雅各說甚麼。”

²⁴God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Take heed to yourself that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”

²⁵拉班追上了雅各。當時雅各已經在山上支搭了帳棚；拉班和他的眾兄弟，也在基列山上支搭了帳棚。

²⁵Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

²⁶拉班對雅各說：“你作的是甚麼事呢？你瞞著我，把我的女兒們當作戰俘一樣帶走了。

²⁶Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

²⁷你為甚麼暗中逃走，瞞著我不讓我知道，使我可以歡歡喜喜地唱歌、擊鼓、彈琴給你送行呢？

²⁷Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

²⁸你又不讓我與我的外孫和女兒親嘴。你所作的太糊塗了！

²⁸and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.

²⁹我本來有能力可以傷害你，但昨天晚上，你們父親的　神對我說：‘你要小心，不可與雅各說甚麼。’

²⁹It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Take heed to yourself that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

³⁰現在你既然渴想你的父家，一定要回去，為甚麼又偷我的神像呢？”

³⁰Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

³¹雅各回答拉班，說：“我逃走，是因為我害怕，我心裡想：恐怕你會把你的女兒們從我的手中搶走。

³¹Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’

³²至於你的神像，你在誰身上搜出來，那人就不該活著；你當著我們眾兄弟面前查一查，如果在我這裡有甚麼東西是你的，你只管拿去。”原來雅各不知拉結偷了神像。

³²Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.

³³拉班進了雅各的帳棚、利亞的帳棚和兩個婢女的帳棚，都沒有搜出甚麼，於是從利亞的帳棚出來，進了拉結的帳棚。

³³Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.

³⁴拉結已經把神像放在駱駝的鞍下，自己坐在上面。拉班搜遍了帳棚，但沒有搜出甚麼。

³⁴Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn’t find them.

³⁵拉結對她父親說：“求我主不要生氣，我不能在你面前起來，因為我正有女人的經期。”這樣，拉班徹底搜查了，也搜不出那神像來。

³⁵She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.

³⁶雅各就生氣，與拉班爭吵起來。雅各責問拉班說：“我到底有甚麼過犯，有甚麼罪惡，你竟這樣急速地追趕我呢？

³⁶Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?

³⁷你已經搜遍了我所有的家具，你有找到你家的東西沒有？可以把它放在這裡，在你我的眾兄弟面前，讓他們可以在你我中間判斷一下。

³⁷Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.

³⁸這二十年來，我與你在一起；你的母綿羊和母山羊沒掉過胎，你羊群中的公羊，我沒有吃過。

³⁸“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.

³⁹被野獸撕裂的，我沒有給你帶回來，都是由我自己賠償；無論白天偷去的，或是黑夜偷的，你都要我負責。

³⁹That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

⁴⁰我白天受盡炎熱，黑夜受盡寒霜，不能入睡；我經常是這樣。

⁴⁰This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

⁴¹我這二十年在你的家裡，為你的兩個女兒服事了你十四年；為你的羊群服事了你六年；你又十次改了我的工資。

⁴¹These 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如果不是我父親的　神，就是亞伯拉罕的　神，以撒所敬畏的　神，與我同在，你現在必定打發我空手回去。但　神看見了我的苦情和我手中的辛勞，所以他昨天晚上責備了你。”

⁴²Unless 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雅各與拉班立約拉班回答雅各，說：“這些女兒是我的女兒；這些孩子是我的孩子；這些羊群也是我的羊群。其實你眼所見的一切都是我的。但我今日向我的女兒和她們所生的孩子，能作甚麼呢？

⁴³Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, 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 children whom they have borne?

⁴⁴來吧，現在我和你可以立約，作為你我之間的證據。”

⁴⁴Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you.”

⁴⁵雅各就拿了一塊石頭，立作石柱。

⁴⁵Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

⁴⁶雅各又對自己的眾兄弟說：“你們把石頭堆聚起來。”他們就把石頭拿來，堆成了一堆。他們又在石堆旁邊吃喝。

⁴⁶Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

⁴⁷拉班稱那石堆為伊迦爾．撒哈杜他，雅各卻稱那石堆為迦累得。

⁴⁷Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, “Jegar Sahadutha” means “Witness Heap” in Aramaic. but Jacob called it Galeed. “Galeed” means “Witness Heap” in Hebrew.

⁴⁸拉班說：“今天這堆石頭是你我之間的證據。”因此它名叫迦累得，

⁴⁸Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you this day.” Therefore it was named Galeed

⁴⁹又名叫米斯巴，因為拉班說：“我們彼此分離以後，願耶和華在你我中間鑒察。

⁴⁹and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

⁵⁰你若苦待我的女兒，或在我的女兒以外，另娶妻子，雖然沒有人在我們中間作證，但你要注意，　神就是你我之間的見證人。”

⁵⁰If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”

⁵¹拉班又對雅各說：“你看這堆石頭，看我在你我之間所豎立的石柱。

⁵¹Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

⁵²這堆石頭就是證據，這石柱也是證據：我決不越過這石堆到你那裡去，你也決不可越過這石堆和石柱，到我這裡來害我。

⁵²May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

⁵³但願亞伯拉罕的　神、拿鶴的　神，就是他們父親的　神，在我們中間判斷。”雅各就指著他父親以撒所敬畏的　神起誓。

⁵³The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.

⁵⁴雅各又在山上獻祭，叫了自己的眾兄弟來吃飯。他們吃了飯，就在山上過夜。

⁵⁴Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.

⁵⁵拉班清早起來，與他的外孫和女兒親嘴，給他們祝福。然後拉班離開那裡，回自己的地方去了。（本節在《馬索拉抄本》為32:1）

⁵⁵Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.