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.”

¹Huan, aman, Laban tapaten, Jakob akipanin ahi, hiai thupina tengteng a muh, a chih uh a na zata a.

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

²Huchiin Jakob in Laban mel a ena, huan, ngaiin tumalam bangin a tungah a hoih nawnkei chih a theia.

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

³Huan, TOUPAN, Jakob kiangah, na pipute gamah leh na tanaute kiangah pai nawn ta in; na kiangah ka om jel ding hi, a chi a.

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

⁴Huchiin, Jakob in mi a sawla, gamlaka a gan hon om nalamah Rakil leh Lea a sama, huan, a kiang uah,

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.

⁵Na pa uh mel ka muhin tumalam bangin ka tungah a hoih nawn kei chih ka theia; himahleh ka pa Pathian ka kiangah a om gige.

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

⁶Nou leng na pa uh na ka theihtawpin ka sem chih na thei uh.

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

⁷Himahleh na pa un honkhema, ka loh lah sawm veitak a hih lamdanga; himahleh Pathianin ka siatna ding a khoih a phal kei hi.

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.

⁸Gial petmaha gialte na loh ahi ding, a chih leh, gan tengtengin gial petmaha gialte a nei jel ua; huan, a gial tante na loh ahi ding, achih leh, gan tengtengin a gial tante a nei jel uh.

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

⁹Huchibangin Pathianin na pa gante a laksaka, kei kiangah a hon peta hi.

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.

¹⁰Huan, hichi ahia, gante a gai pat lai un, ka mangin ka daka, huan, ngaiin, a pa, gan honte, a gial tante, gial petmaha gialte, a giala gial iakuakte ahi uh chih ka mu a.

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

¹¹Huan, ka mangin Pathian angelin, Jakob, honna chi a: huan, ken, Hiaiah ka om, ka chi a.

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.

¹²Huan, aman, Dak inla, en in, apa gan honte tengteng, a gial tante, gial petmaha gialte. Agiala gial iakuakte ahi uh: Labanin na tunga a thilhih tengteng ka mu hi.

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.’”

¹³Kei, suangphuha sathau na nilha, ka kianga thu na chiamna Bethel, huai Bethel Pathian ka hi: tuin thou inla, hiai gam akipan pawt inla, na pianna gamah pai nawnta in, a chi a, achia.

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

¹⁴Huan, Rakil leh Lea in a dawng ua, a kiangah, Ka pa uh in ah kou dingin tantuan leh gouluah ding a om lailai ahia?

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

¹⁵Aman mikhual bang lela honsim hita lou hia? A hon khawng khinta a, ka man ulah a ne khinta ngala.

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.”

¹⁶Pathianin ka pa uh akipana sum a laksak tengteng ei leh I tate a ahi hi: huchiin Pathianin na kianga a gen peuhmah hihin, a chi ua.

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

¹⁷Huchiin, Jakob a thoua, a tapate leh a jite sangawngsau tungah a tuangsaka;

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.

¹⁸Huan, Kanan gama a pa Isaak kianga pai dingin a gan tengteng leh a sum khol tengteng, a gan muhte, Paddan-aram gama a kholte, a paipih veka.

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.

¹⁹Huan, Laban bel a belam mulmet dingin a pimang hi: huan, Rakilin a pa milimte a guksak.

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

²⁰Huan, Jakob Suria mi Laban theihlouh kalin a guk pai mang hi: a paimang ding thu a hilh kei hi.

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

²¹Huchiin a neih tengteng toh a tai mangta a; huan, a thoua, luipi a kana, Gilead tang lam juanin a pai jel hi.

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

²²Huan, a ni thum niin Jakob a taita chih Laban a hilh ua.

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

²³Huchiin a unaute api a ni sagih lamtan a delh a; Gilead tangah a delh phata hi.

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.”

²⁴Huan, Suria mi Laban kiangah janin a mangin Pathian a honga, a kiangah, Jakob kiangah a sia a pha a bangmah mah gen lou dingin pilvangin, a chi. Huan, Labanin Jakob a delh phata hi.

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.

²⁵Huan, Jakobin a puanin tangah a kai khina: huan, Labanin leng a unaute toh Gilead tangah a kai uh.

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

²⁶Huan, Labanin, Jakob kiangah, na thilhih hi bangchidan ahia oi ka theihlouh kala na guk pai manga, namsau salte bang maia ka tanute na pi mang?

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;

²⁷Bang ding a hon taimang sana, hon guk paisan a, nopsaknate toh, late toh, khuangta te toh, kaihgingte toh ka hon khak theihna dia na hon hilh louha;

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

²⁸Ka tute leh ka tanute ka tawn phal lou oi? Haihuai takin ahi thil na hih.

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.’

²⁹Hon hihse thei ka hi a; himahleh, na pa Pathianin, tu janin, Jakob kiangah a sia a pha bangmah mah genlou dingin pilvangin, chiin a honhoupih hi.

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

³⁰Huan, na pa in na ngaih mahmah tak jiakin, pai ut hi tawk lechin zong, bangdia ka Pathian te hon guksak na hia? achia.

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

³¹Huan, Jakobin a dawnga, Laban kiangah, ka lau jiak ahi; na tanute non laksak teitei kha ding, ka chi a ahi.

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.

³²Kuapeuh na Pathian te na muh na a hing kei ding uh: I unaute mitmuhin nanga ka kianga om en chian inla, la ve, a chi a.

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.

³³Rakilin a na gu chih lah Jakobin a thei ngal keia. Huan, Laban bel Jakob puaninte ah, Lea puaninte ah, sikhanu nihte puaninte ah a lut jela; himahleh a mu kei. Huan, Lea puanin akipana pawta, Rakil puanin ah a lut nawna.

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.

³⁴Huan, Rakilin milimte a na laa, sangawngsau van lakah a na koiha, a na tutkhuma. Huan, Labanin a puanin sung tengteng a mai suak veka, himahleh a mu kei hi.

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.

³⁵Huan, aman, a pa kiangah, Na maa ka din ngap louh jiakin ka toupa, hehken aw; numei omdan ngeina ka tunga a om laitak lah ahi ngala, achia. Huchiin a zongzong a, himahleh milimte a mu zo ta kei hi.

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?

³⁶Huan, Jakob a hehta a, Laban a salta: Jakobin Laban kiangah bangah ka taleka, bangah ka khial a, hon delh na hia?

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.

³⁷Ka van tengteng na mai nung inleng, na insung van himhim banga na muh? Kou nihte non ngaihtuah theih na dingin ka unaute leh na unaute maah koihin.

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.

³⁸Kum sawm nih vengveng na kiangah ka omta; na belam pite leh na kel piten nou a nei khial ngei kei ua, na belam hon laka pate leng lah ka ne ngei ngal keia.

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.

³⁹Gamsa keih leng lah na kiangah ka hontun ngeingal keia: ken a mang sikin ka thuak zaw jela; suna guk hiam, jana guk hiam lah ka dit na phut ngitnget a.

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

⁴⁰Hichibangin ka om jel; sun a nisa leh jan a khovot in a hon hihgim thei mahmaha; ihmut leng ka mu ngeikei hi.

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.

⁴¹Huan, kum sawm nih sung teng na in ah ka oma; na tanu nihte loh dingin kum sawm leh kum li na na ka sema, na gante loh dingin kum guk ka sem nawna; ka loh lah sawm vei tak na hihlamdang ngal a.

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.”

⁴²Ka pa Pathian, Abraham Pathian, Isaak kihtak, ka kianga om lou hi ngial lehouh, tuin vuaktang lela honpaisak ngeingei ding na hi. Pathianin ka haksat thuakdan leh ka sepgim dan a mua, Tujana honvau ahi, achia.

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?

⁴³Huan, Labanin a dawnga, Jakob kiangah, tanute kei tanu ahi ua, naupangte kei naupangte ahi ua, gante kei gante ahi ua, na muh tengteng keia vek ahi uh: tuniin hiai ka tanute tungah leh a ta neihte uh tungah bang ka hih thei dia?

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

⁴⁴Kisain, kei leh nang thu I khung ding; huai kei leh nang kalah theihna hi hen, a chi a.

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

⁴⁵Huchiin, Jakobin suang a laa, suangphuh dingin a phuta.

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

⁴⁶Huan, Jakobin a unaute kiangah, suang la khawm un, a chi a; huan, suang a la ua, achiang ua: huan, suangchian khawm kiangah an a ne uh.

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

⁴⁷Huan, Labanin huai suang chian khawm, Jegarsahadutha, a chi a; Jakobin bel Galeed, a chi hi.

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

⁴⁸Huan, Labanin, hiai suang chian khawm tuiin kei leh nang kikalah theihna ahi, a chi a. Huaijiakin a min dingin Galeed chih a hita:

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

⁴⁹Mizpa chih leng ahi, Labanin, kikhen a I om hun chiangin TOUPAN honveng tuaktuak hen,

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.”

⁵⁰Ka tanute na suk gentheiha, ka tanute lou ji dang na neih leh, kuamah i kiangah a om kei na ua, enin, Pathian kei leh nang kal hontheihpihpa ahi, a chi ngala.

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

⁵¹Huan, Laban mahin, hiai suang chian khawm en lechin, keimah leh nangmah kikala hiai suang ka phuh leng enin.

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.

⁵²Poi kikhoihsak dingin kei hiai suang khengin na kiang lamah ka hongpai kei ding, chih leh, nang leng hiai suang chian khawm leh hiai suang phuh khengin kei kiang lamah na hongpai kei ding chih, hiai suang chian a theihna hi henla, hiai suangphuh leng a theihna mah hi hen.

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.

⁵³Abraham Pathian, Nahor Pathian, a pa uh Pathianin I kalah thu ngaihtuah hen, a chi nawna. Huan, Jakobin a pa Isaak kihtak louin a kichiamta.

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

⁵⁴Huan, Jakobin tang ah kithoihna a lana a unaute tanghou ne dingin a sama; huchiin tanghou a ne ua, tang ah a giak chiat uhi.Huan, jingsang in beltakin Laban a thoua, a tute leh a tanute a tawpa, a vualjawla: huan, Laban a paia, amah omna lamah a pai

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

⁵⁵Huan, jingsang in beltakin Laban a thoua, a tute leh a tanute a tawpa, a vualjawla: huan, Laban a paia, amah omna lamah a pai