6 Vayomer lahem hashalom lo vayomeru shalom vehineh Rachel bito ba'ah im-hatzon.
7 Vayomer hen od hayom gadol lo-et he'asef hamikneh hashku hatzon ulechu re'u.
8 Vayomeru lo nuchal ad asher ye'asfu kol-ha'adarim vegalelu et-ha'even me'al pi habe'er vehishkinu hatzon.
9 Odenu medaber imam veRachel ba'ah im-hatzon asher le'aviha ki ro'ah hi.
10 Vayehi ka'asher ra'ah Ya'akov et-Rachel bat-Lavan achi imo ve'et tzon Lavan achi imo vayigash Ya'akov vayagel et-ha'even me'al pi habe'er vayashk et-tzon Lavan achi imo.
11 Vayishak Ya'akov le-Rachel vayisa et-kolo vayevk.
12 Vayaged Ya'akov le-Rachel ki achi aviha hu vechi ven-Rivkah hu vatarotz vataged le'aviha.
13 Vayehi chishmoa Lavan et-shema Ya'akov ben-achoto vayarotz likrato vayechabek-lo vayenashek-lo vayevi'ehu el-beyto vayesaper le-Lavan et kol-hadevarim ha'eleh.
14 Vayomer lo Lavan ach atzmi uvesari atah vayeshev imo chodesh yamim.
He said to them, "Is he doing well?" They said, "He is doing well. Behold, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."
He said to them, "The day is yet long, it is not yet time for the sheep to be gathered, water the sheep and go pasture them."
They said, "We cannot [do so] until all the flocks have gathered and [the shepherds] roll the stone from the mouth of the well. Then we can water the sheep."
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
When Yaakov saw Rachel, the daughter of Lavan, his mother's brother, with the sheep of Lavan, his mother's brother, he stepped near and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well. He then watered the sheep of Lavan, his mother's brother.
Yaakov kissed Rachel and cried in a loud voice.
Yaakov told Rachel that he was a relative of her father, that he was the son of Rivkah. She ran and told her father.
When Lavan heard the news of Yaakov, his sister's son, he ran to greet him. He embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. [Yaakov] told Lavan all that had happened.
Lavan said to him, "Nevertheless, you are my bone and flesh." [Yaakov] lived with him for a month.
Yaakov is Deceived
16 Ule-Lavan shtei vanot shem hagdolah Leah veshem haktanah Rachel.
17 Ve'eynei Leah rakot veRachel hayetah yefat-to'ar vifat mar'eh.
15 Vayomer Lavan le-Ya'akov hachi-achi atah va'avadetani chinam hagidah li mah-maskurtecha.
Lavan said to Yaakov, "Just because you are my relative, must you work for me without pay? Tell me, [what should] your wages [be]?"
Lavan had two daughters. The name of the older one was Leah, and the name of the younger one was Rachel.
The eyes of Leah were tender. Rachel was of beautiful form and of beautiful appearance.
Shlishi
19 Vayomer Lavan tov titi otah lach mititi otah le'ish acher shvah imadi.
20 Vaya'avod Ya'akov beRachel sheva shanim vayihyu ve'eynav keyamim achadim be'ahavato otah.
21 Vayomer Ya'akov el-Lavan havah et-ishti ki male'u yamay ve'avo'ah eleyha.
22 Vaye'esof Lavan et-kol-anshei hamakom vaya'as mishteh.
23 Vayehi va'erev vayikach et-Leah vito vayave otah elav vayavo eleyha.
24 Vayiten Lavan lah et-Zilpah shifchato le-Leah vito shifchah.
25 Vayehi vaboker vehineh-hi Leah vayomer el-Lavan mah-zot asitah li halo veRachel avadeti imach velamah rimitani.
26 Vayomer Lavan lo-ye'aseh chen bimkomenu latet hatze'irah lifnei habechirah.
27 Male shevua zot venitnah lecha gam-et-zot ba'avodah asher ta'avod imadi od sheva-shanim acherot.
28 Vaya'as Ya'akov ken vayemale shvua zot vayiten-lo et-Rachel bito lo le'ishah.
29 Vayiten Lavan le-Rachel bito et-Bilhah shifchato lah leshifchah.
30 Vayavo gam el-Rachel vaye'ehav gam-et-Rachel miLeah vaya'avod imo od sheva-shanim acherot.
18 Vaye'ehav Ya'akov et-Rachel vayomer e'evadcha sheva shanim beRachel bitcha haktanah.
Yaakov loved Rachel, and he said, "I will work for you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."
Lavan said, "Better that I give her to you than I should give her to another man. [Remain] living with me."
Yaakov worked seven years for Rachel, but they seemed to him like a few days, so much did he love her.
Yaakov said to Lavan, "Give me my wife, for my term is completed; and thus I will consummate the marriage with her."
Lavan gathered all the local people and he made a [wedding] feast.
When it was evening, he took Leah, his daughter, and brought her to him [Yaakov]. He consummated the marriage with her.
Lavan gave Zilpah, his servant to her, to Leah, his daughter as a handmaid.
When it was morning, behold it was Leah! He [Yaakov] said to Lavan, "What have you done to me? Did not I work with you for Rachel? Why did you deceive me?"
Lavan said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger [daughter in marriage] before the firstborn.
Complete the [marriage] week for this one. We will then give you the other also - in return for the work that you will do with me for another seven years."
Yaakov did so, and he completed the [marriage] week for this one [Leah]. He [Lavan] then gave Rachel, his daughter to him as a wife.
To his daughter, Rachel, Lavan gave his servant Bilhah, to be her handmaid.
He [Yaakov] also consummated his marriage with Rachel. He loved Rachel more than Leah, and he worked with [Lavan] another seven years.
Leah Bears Four Sons
32 Vatahar Leah vateled ben vatikra shmo Re'uven ki amrah ki-ra'ah HASHEM be'oni ki atah ye'ehavani ishi.
33 Vatahar od vateled ben vatomer ki-shama HASHEM ki-snu'ah anochi vayiten-li gam-et-zeh vatikra shmo Shim'on.
34 Vatahar od vateled ben vatomer atah hapa'am yilave ishi elay ki-yaladeti lo shloshah vanim al-ken kara-shmo Levi.
35 Vatahar od vateled ben vatomer hapa'am odeh et-HASHEM al-ken kar'ah shmo Yehudah vata'amod miledet.
31 Vayar HASHEM ki-snu'ah Leah vayiftach et-rachmah veRachel akarah.
HASHEM saw that Leah was the hated one, and He opened her womb. Rachel remained barren.
Leah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuven, as she said, "HASHEM has seen my affliction; for now my husband will love me."
She conceived again and gave birth to a son. She said, "Since HASHEM heard that I am the hated one, He also gave me this one," and she named him Shimon.
She conceived again and gave birth to a son. She said, "This time my husband will become attached to me, for I have born him three sons." He therefore named him Levi.
She conceived again and gave birth to a son. She said, "This time I will praise HASHEM." She therefore named him Yehudah. She then stopped giving birth.
Rachel is fulfilled through Bilhah
2 Vayichar-af Ya'akov beRachel vayomer hatachat Elokim anochi asher-mana mimech pri-vaten.
3 Vatomer hineh amati Vilhah bo eleyha veteled al-birkay ve'ibaneh gam-anochi mimenah.
4 Vatiten-lo et-Bilhah shifchatah le'ishah vayavo eleyha Ya'akov.
5 Vatahar Bilhah vateled le-Ya'akov ben.
6 Vatomer Rachel danani Elokim vegam shama bekoli vayiten-li ben al-ken kar'ah shmo Dan.
7 Vatahar od vateled Bilhah shifchat Rachel ben sheni le-Ya'akov.
8 Vatomer Rachel naftulei elohim niftalti im-achoti gam-yacholti vatikra shmo Naftali.
9 Vatere Leah ki amedah miledet vatikach et-Zilpah shifchata vatiten otah le-Ya'akov le'ishah.
10 Vateled Zilpah shifkhat Leah le-Ya'akov ben.
11 Vatomer Leah ba gad vatikra et-shmo Gad.
12 Vateled Zilpah shifchat Leah ben sheni le-Ya'akov.
13 Vatomer Leah be'oshri ki ishruni banot vatikra et-shmo Asher.
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Vatere Rachel ki lo yaledah le-Ya'akov vatekane Rachel ba'achotah vatomer el-Ya'akov havah-li vanim ve'im-ayin metah anochi.
Rachel saw that she was not bearing children to Yaakov. Rachel became jealous of her sister, and she said to Yaakov, "Give me children; if not I am [considered] dead."
Yaakov became very angry with Rachel, and he said, "Am I in G-d's place? [It is He] who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb."
She said, "here is my handmaid, Bilhah, consummate a marriage with her. Let her give birth upon my knees, and I too will have a son through her."
She gave him Bilhah, her handmaid, as a wife and Yaakov consummated the marriage with her.
Bilhah conceived and bore Yaakov a son.
Rachel said, "G-d has judged me. He has also heard my voice, and has given me son." She therefore named him Dan.
She conceived again, and Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, bore a second son to Yaakov.
Rachel said, "With G-d's bonds, I have been joined to my sister, and I have also prevailed." She [therefore] called him Naftali.
Leah realized that she was no longer bearing children. She [therefore] took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Yaakov as a wife.
Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Yaakov a son.
Leah said, "Unexpected success has come," and she named him Gad.
Zilpah, Leah's handmaid bore a second son to Yaakov.
Leah said, "It is in my good fortune that daughters [women] will consider me fortunate." She named him Asher.
Revi'i
15 Vatomer lah hame'at kachtech et-ishi velakachat gam et-duda'ei beni vatomer Rachel lachen yishkav imach halailah tachat duda'ey venech.
16 Vayavo Ya'akov min-hasadeh ba'erev vatetze Leah likrato vatomer elay tavo ki sachor secharticha beduda'ei beni vayishkav imah balailah hu.
17 Vayishma Elokim el-Leah vatahar vateled le-Ya'akov ben-chamishi.
18 Vatomer Leah natan Elokim sechari asher-natati shifchati le'ishi vatikra shmo Yissachar.
19 Vatahar od Leah vateled ben shishi le-Ya'akov.
20 Vatomer Leah zvadani Elokim oti zeved tov hapa'am yizbeleni ishi ki-yaladeti lo shishah vanim vatikra et-shmo Z'vulun.
21 Ve'achar yaldah bat vatikra et-shmah Dinah.
14 Vayelech Re'uven bimei ktzir-chitim vayimtza duda'im basadeh vayave otam el-Leah imo vatomer Rachel el-Leah tni-na li miduda'ei benech.
Reuven went in the days of the wheat harvest, and found jasmine flowers in the field. He brought them to Leah, his mother. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's jasmine flowers."
She [Leah] said to her, " Isn't it enough that you took my husband? Would you also take my son's jasmine flowers?" Rachel said, "Therefore, he shall be with you tonight in exchange for your son's jasmine flowers."
Yaakov came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him. She said, "You will come to me, for I have hired you with my son's jasmine flowers," and he was with her that night.
G-d perceived Leah's [wish]. She conceived and bore [her] fifth son to Yaakov.
Leah said, "G-d has given me my reward because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Yissachar.
leah conceived again and bore [her] sixth son to Yaakov.
Leah said, "G-d has given a goodly portion. Now my husband will make his [main] home with me, for I have borne him six sons. She named him Zevulun.
Afterwards she gave birth to a daughter, and named her Dinah.
The birth of Yosef
23 Vatahar vateled ben vatomer asaf Elokim et-cherpati.
24 Vatikra et-shemo Yosef lemor yosef HASHEM li ben acher.
22 Vayizkor Elokim et-Rachel vayishma eleyha Elokim vayiftach et-rachmah.
G-d remembered Rachel, and G-d perceived her [plight] and opened her womb.
She conceived and gave birth to a son. She said, "G-d has removed my shame."
She named him Yosef, saying, "May HASHEM add to me another son."
25 Vayehi ka'asher yaldah Rachel et-Yosef vayomer Ya'akov el-Lavan shalcheni ve'elchah el-mekomi ule'artzi.
26 Tenah et-nashay ve'et-yeladay asher avadeti otecha bahen ve'elechah ki atah yadata et-avodati asher avadeticha.
27 Vayomer elav Lavan im-na matzati chen be'eyneycha nichashti vayevarcheni HASHEM biglalecha.
When Rachel had given birth to Yosef, Yaakov said to Lavan, "Send me on my way, and I will go to my own place and to my homeland.
Give me [permission to take] my wives and my children, for whom I worked for you, and I wll go; for you know my work that I did for you."
lavan said to him, "If I have found favor in your eyes, I have divined that HASHEM has blessed me because of you."
Chamishi
29 Vayomer elav atah yadata et asher avadeticha ve'et asher-hayah miknecha iti.
30 Ki me'at asher-hayah lecha lefanay vayifrotz larov vayevarech HASHEM otcha leragli ve'atah matay e'eseh gam-anochi leveyti.
31 Vayomer mah eten-lach vayomer Ya'akov lo-titen-li me'umah im-ta'aseh-li hadavar hazeh ashuvah er'eh tzonkha eshmor.
32 E'evor bechol-tzoncha hayom haser misham kol-seh nakod vetalu vechol-seh-chum baksavim vetalu venakod ba'izim vahayah sechari.
33 Ve'antah-bi tzidkati beyom machar ki-tavo al-schari lefaneycha kol asher-eyneynu nakod vetalu ba'izim vechum baksavim ganuv hu iti.
34 Vayomer Lavan hen lu yehi chidvarecha.
35 Vayasar bayom hahu et-hateyashim ha'akudim vehatlu'im ve'et kol-ha'izim hanekudot vehatlu'ot kol-asher-Lavan bo vechol-chum baksavim vayiten beyad-banav.
36 Vayasem derech shloshet yamim beyno uveyn Ya'akov veYa'akov ro'eh et-tzon Lavan hanotarot.
37 Vayikach-lo Ya'akov makal livneh lach veluz ve'armon vayefatzel bahen petzalot levanot machsof halavan asher al-hamaklot.
38 Vayatzeg et-hamaklot asher pitzel barehatim beshikatot hamayim asher tavona hatzon lishtot lenochach hatzon vayechamnah bevo'an lishtot.
39 Vayechemu hatzon el-hamaklot vateladnah hatzon akudim nekudim utlu'im.
40 Vehaksavim hifrid Ya'akov vayiten penei hatzon el-akod vechol-chum betzon Lavan vayashet lo adarim levado velo shatam al-tzon Lavan.
41 Vehayah bechol-yachem hatzon hamekusharot vesam Ya'akov et-hamaklot le'eynei hatzon barehatim leyachmenah bamaklot.
42 Uveha'atif hatzon lo yasim vehayah ha'atufim le-Lavan vehakshurim le-Ya'akov.
43 Vayifrotz ha'ish me'od me'od vayehi-lo tzon rabot ushfachot va'avadim ugmalim vachamorim.
28 Vayomar nakvah secharecha alay ve'etenah.
He said, "Set your wage for me, and I will give it."
He [Yaakov] said to him, "You know how I worked for you, and how your livestock fared with me.
For the little you had before I came here has increased and has become a multitude. HASHEM has blessed you with my coming. Now when will I also do something for my own house?"
He [Lavan] said, "What shall I give you?" Yaakov said, "Do not give me anything - if you do this thing for me, I will continue to tend your flock and guard it.
I will go through all your flock and guard it. I will remove from them every lamb that is speckled, or spotted, and every dark one among the sheep, and every goat that is spotted and speckled. That [kind] will be my wage.
My righteousness shall testify for me in the future when you go over my wage. Any goat which is not speckled or spotted, and any sheep that is [not] dark, shall be considered as stolen [if it is] in my possession."
Lavan said, "Agreed, may it be as you say."
That day he [Lavan] removed the he-goats that were ringed and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, everyone that had white in it, and all the dark ones among the sheep; nd he gave them to his sons.
He placed a three days journey between himself and Yaakov. Yaakov tended Lavan's remaining flocks.
Yaakov took rods of fresh poplar, hazel and chestnut [trees], and peeled white stripes in them by uncovering the white which is in the rods.
He set up the rods that he had peeled in the ducts in the watering troughs, where the sheep [ewes] came to drink facing the sheep [rams]; that they should become heated when they came to drink.
The sheep became heated [and mated] before the rods, and the sheep gave birth to ringed, speckled and spotted [lambs].
Yaakov separated the lambs. He set the faces of the sheep toward the ringed ones and all the dark ones; [he did so] with Lavan's flocks. He formed separate flocks of his own, and did not set them with Lavan's flocks.
When the stronger sheep were heated [to mate], Yaakov placed the rods before the sheep's eyes at the ducts, so they would be in heat among the rods.
But when the sheep were feeble, he did not place [the rods before them]. Thus the feeble ones were Lavan's, and the strong ones became the possession of Yaakov.
The man became tremendously prosperous. He had many flocks, female slaves and male slaves, camels and donkeys.
Yaakov Flees from Lavan
2 Vayar Ya'akov et-penei Lavan vehineh einenu imo kitmol shilshom.
3 Vayomer HASHEM el-Ya'akov shuv el-eretz avoteycha ulemoladetecha ve'ehyeh imach.
4 Vayishlach Ya'akov vayikra le-Rachel ule-Leah hasadeh el-tzono.
5 Vayomer lahen ro'eh anochi et-pnei avikhen ki-eynenu elay kitmol shilshom v'Elokei avi hayah imadi.
6 Ve'atenah yedaten ki bechol-kochi avadeti et-avichen.
7 Va'avichen hetel bi vehechelif et-maskurti aseret monim velo-netano Elokim lehara imadi.
8 Im-ko yomar nekudim yihyeh secharecha veyaldu chol-hatzon nekudim ve'im-ko yomar akudim yihyeh secharecha veyaldu chol-hatzon akudim.
9 Vayatzel Elokim et-mikneh avichem vayiten-li.
10 Vayehi be'et yachem hatzon va'esa eynay va'ere bachalom vehineh ha'atudim ha'olim al-hatzon akudim nekudim uverudim.
11 Vayomer elay mal'ach ha'Elokim bachalom Ya'akov va'omar hineni.
12 Vayomer sa-na eyneycha ur'eh kol-ha'atudim ha'olim al-hatzon akudim nekudim uverudim ki ra'iti et kol-asher Lavan oseh lach.
13 Anochi ha'Kel Beit-el asher mashachta sham matzevah asher nadarta li sham neder atah kum tze min-ha'aretz hazot veshuv el-eretz moladetecha.
14 Vata'an Rachel veLeah vatomarnah lo ha'od lanu chelek venachalah beveyt avinu.
15 Halo nochri'ot nechshavnu lo ki mecharanu vayochal gam-achol et-kaspenu.
16 Ki chol-ha'osher asher hitzil Elokim me'avinu lanu hu ulevaneynu ve'atah kol asher amar Elokim eleycha aseh.
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Vayishma et-divrei vney-Lavan lemor lakach Ya'akov et kol-asher le'avinu ume'asher le'avinu asah et kol-hakavod hazeh.
He [Yaakov] heard the words of Lavan's sons [who were] saying, "Yaakov has taken all that belonged to our father. From that which was our father's, he made all this wealth."
Yaakov saw Lavan's face [demeanor] and it was not toward him as it was before.
HASHEM said to Yaakov, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your birthplace, and I will be with you."
Yaakov sent and called Rachel and Leah to [come to] the field, to his flock.
He said to them, "I saw your father's face; it is not toward me as it was before, but the G-d of my father was with me.
You know that I served your father with all my strength.
Your father cheated me and changed my wage ten times; but G-d did not let him harm me.
If he would say, 'The speckled will be your wage,' then all the sheep gave birth to speckled ones. If he would say, 'Ringed ones will be your wage,' then all the sheep gave birth to rigned ones.
Thus G-d delivered your father's livestock, and gave it to me.
At the time the sheep were in heat [to mate], I lifted my eyes, and in a dream I saw that the rams going upon the sheep were ringed, speckled and striped.
An angel of G-d said to me in a dream, 'Yaakov,' and I said, 'Here I am.'
He said, 'Lift up your eyes and see, all the rams going up on the sheep are ringed, speckled, and striped; for I have seen all that lavan is doing to you.
I am the Almighty of Beit-el, where you anointed a monument, where you made a vow to Me. Now arise and leave this land, and return to th eland of your birthplace.'"
Rachel and Leah replied and said to him, "Do we still have a portion and an inheritance in our father's house?
Are we not considered by him as strangers? For he has sold us, and has completely consumed our money.
All the wealth that G-d rescued from our father belongs to us and our children. Now, whatever G-d has said to you, do it."
Shishi
18 Vayinhag et-kol-miknehu ve'et-kol-rechusho asher rachash mikneh kinyano asher rachash beFadan-aram lavo el-Yitzchak aviv artzah Kena'an.
19 VeLavan halach ligzoz et-tzono vatignov Rachel et-hatrafim asher le'aviha.
20 Vayignov Ya'akov et-lev Lavan ha'Arammi al-beli higid lo ki voreach hu.
21 Vayivrach hu vechol-asher-lo vayakom vaya'avod et-hanahar vayasem et-panav har haGil'ad.
17 Vayakom Ya'akov vayisa et-banav ve'et-nashav al-hagemalim.
Yaakov rose and lifted his children and his wives upon the camels.
He led away all his livestock, and all his possessions that he had acquired, which he had purchased with his own livestock that he had acquired in Padan-aram, [in order] to come to Yitzchak, his father, to the land of Kenaan.
Lavan [meanwhile] had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father.
Yaakov fooled Lavan, the Arami, by not telling him that he had fled.
He fled with all that he possessed. He set out and crossed the river, setting out in the direction of Mount Gilad.
Lavan Pursues Yaakov
23 Vayikach et-echav imo vayirdof acharav derech shiv'at yamim vayadbek oto behar haGil'ad.
24 Vayavo Elokim el-Lavan ha'Arammi bachalom halailah vayomer lo hishamer lecha pen-tedaber im-Ya'akov mitov ad-ra.
25 Vayaseg Lavan et-Ya'akov veYa'akov taka et-aholo bahar veLavan taka et-echav beHar haGil'ad.
26 Vayomer Lavan le-Ya'akov meh asita vatignov et-levavi vatenaheg et-benotay kishvuyot charev.
27 Lamah nachbeta livroach vatignov oti velo-higadeta li va'ashalechacha besimchah uveshirim betof uvechinor.
28 Velo netashtani lenashek levanay velivnotay atah hiskalta aso.
29 Yesh-le'el yadi la'asot imachem ra ve'Elokei avichem emesh amar elay lemor hishamer lecha midaber im-Ya'akov mitov ad-ra.
30 Ve'atah haloch halachta ki-nichsof nichsaftah leveyt avicha lamah ganavta et-elohai.
31 Vaya'an Ya'akov vayomer le-Lavan ki yareti ki amarti pen-tigzol et-benotecha me'imi.
32 Im asher timtza et-eloheyca lo yichyeh neged acheynu haker-leca mah imadi vekach-lac velo-yada Ya'akov ki Rachel genavatam.
33 Vayavo Lavan be'ohel-Ya'akov uve'ohel Leah uve'ohel shtei ha'amahot velo matza vayetze me'ohel Leah vayavo be'ohel Rachel.
34 VeRachel lakchah et-hatrafim vatesimem bechar hagamal vateshev aleyhem vayemashesh Lavan et-kol-ha'ohel velo matza.
35 Vatomer el-aviha al-yichar be'eynei adoni ki lo uchal lakum mipaneycha ki derech nashim li vayechapes velo matza et-hatrafim.
36 Vayichar le-Ya'akov vayarev beLavan vaya'an Ya'akov vayomer le-Lavan mah-pish'i mah chatati ki dalakta acharay.
37 Ki-mishashta et-kol-kelay mah-matzata mikol klei-veytecha sim koh neged achai ve'acheycha veyochichu beyn shneynu.
22 Vayugad le-Lavan bayom hashlishi ki varach Ya'akov.
Lavan was told on the third day that Yaakov had fled.
He took his brothers [kinsmen] with him, and pursued him a distance of seven days. He overtook him in Mount Gilad.
G-d appeared to Lavan the Arami, in a dream that night, and said to him, "Guard yourself, that you do not speak to Yaakov either good and evil."
Lavan overtook Yaakov. Yaakov had set up his tents on the mountain, and Lavan and his brothers had set up on Mount Gilad.
Lavan said to Yaakov, "What have you done? You fooled me, and led my daughters away like prisoners of war.
Why did you flee so stealthily? You robbed me and did not tell me. I would have sent you away, with joy and with song, with drum and harp.
You did not let me kiss my [grand]sons and daughters. Now see how foolishly you acted.
It is within the power of my hand to harm you, but the G-d of your father spoke to me last night saying, 'Guard yourself not to speak to Yaakov either
good or evil.'
Now you have gone for you yearned for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods?"
Yaakov replied and said to Lavan, "Because I was afraid, for I said you might forcibly take your daughters from me.
With whomsoever you find your gods, he shall not live. In the presence of our brethren, identify anything belonging to you that is here with me and take it back with you." Yaakov did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
Lavan came into Yaakov's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tents of the two handmaids, but he found nothing. He left Leah's tent nd came into Rachel's tent.
Rachel had taken the idols, and placed them in the camel's saddle-pillow, and sat upon them. Lavan searched the whole tent and found nothing.
She said to her father, "Let there not be anger in the yes of my master that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me." He searched but did not find the idols.
Yaakov was angry and he argued with Lavan. Yaakov replied and said to Lavan, "What is my crime? What sin did I commit that you were in such hot pursuit of me?
When you searched all my goods, what did you find of all your household goods? Place it here in the presence of my brethren and your brethren, and let them decide between the two of us.
