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Gen 28:1 And Yitsḥaq called Ya‛aqoḇ and blessed him, and commanded
him, and said to him, “Do not take a wife from the daughters of Kena‛an.
Gen 28:2 “Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethu’ĕl your mother’s
father. And take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laḇan
your mother’s brother.
Gen 28:3 “And Ĕl Shaddai bless you, and make you bear fruit and increase
you, and you shall become an assembly of peoples,
Gen 28:4 and give you the blessing of Aḇraham, to you and your seed with
you, so that you inherit the land of your sojournings, which Elohim gave to
Aḇraham.”
Gen 28:5 So Yitsḥaq sent Ya‛aqoḇ away, and he went to Paddan Aram, to
Laḇan son of Bethu’ĕl the Aramean, the brother of Riḇqah, the mother of
Ya‛aqoḇ and Ĕsaw.
Gen 28:6 And Ĕsaw saw that Yitsḥaq had blessed Ya‛aqoḇ and sent him
away to Paddan Aram to take himself a wife from there, and that as he
blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “Do not take a wife from the
daughters of Kena‛an,”
Gen 28:7 and that Ya‛aqoḇ had obeyed his father and his mother and had
gone to Paddan Aram.
Gen 28:8 So Ĕsaw saw that the daughters of Kena‛an did not please his
father Yitsḥaq,
Gen 28:9 and Ĕsaw went to Yishma‛ĕl and took Maḥalath the daughter of
Yishma‛ĕl, Aḇraham’s son, the sister of Neḇayoth, to be his wife, besides the
wives he had.
Gen 28:10 And Ya‛aqoḇ went out from Be’ĕrsheḇa and went toward Ḥaran.
Gen 28:11 And he came upon a place and stopped over for the night, for the
sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head,
and he lay down in that place to sleep.
Gen 28:12 And he dreamed and saw a ladder set up on the earth, and its top
reached to the heavens, and saw messengers of Elohim going up and coming
down on it.
Gen 28:13 And see, יהוה stood above it and said, “I am יהוה Elohim of
Aḇraham your father and the Elohim of Yitsḥaq. The land on which you are
lying, I give it to you and your seed.
Gen 28:14 “And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall
break forth to the west and to the east, to the north and the south. And all the
clans of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your seed.
Gen 28:15 “And see, I am with you and shall guard you wherever you go,
and shall bring you back to this land. For I am not going to leave you until I
have done what I have spoken to you.”
Gen 28:16 And Ya‛aqoḇ awoke from his sleep and said, “Truly, יהוה is in
this place, and I did not know it.”
Gen 28:17 And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This
is none other than the house of Elohim, and this is the gate of the heavens!”
Gen 28:18 And Ya‛aqoḇ rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he
had put at his head, set it up as a standing column, and poured oil on top of it.
Gen 28:19 And he called the name of that place Bĕyth Ĕl, however, the name
of that city had been Luz previously.
Gen 28:20 And Ya‛aqoḇ made a vow, saying, “Seeing Elohim is with me,
and has kept me in this way that I am going, and has given me bread to eat
and a garment to put on –
Gen 28:21 when I have returned to my father’s house in peace, and יהוה has
been my Elohim,
Gen 28:22 then this stone which I have set as a standing column shall be
Elohim’s house, and of all that You give me, I shall certainly give a tenth to
You.”

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Gen 29:1 And Ya‛aqoḇ moved on and came to the land of the people of the
East.
Gen 29:2 And he looked and saw a well in the field, and saw three flocks of
sheep lying by it, for out of that well they watered the flocks, and a large
stone was on the well’s mouth.
Gen 29:3 And all the flocks would be gathered there, then they would roll
the stone from the well’s mouth and water the sheep, and put the stone back in
its place on the well’s mouth.
Gen 29:4 So Ya‛aqoḇ said to them, “My brothers, where are you from?”
And they said, “We are from Ḥaran.”
Gen 29:5 And he said to them, “Do you know Laḇan son of Naḥor?” And
they said, “We know him.”
Gen 29:6 So he said to them, “Is he well?” And they said, “Well. And see,
his daughter Raḥĕl is coming with the sheep.”
Gen 29:7 And he said, “See, it is still high day, not the time for the livestock
to be gathered together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.”
Gen 29:8 But they said, “We are not allowed until all the flocks are gathered
together, and they have rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, then we shall
water the sheep.”
Gen 29:9 While he was still speaking with them, Raḥĕl came with her
father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
Gen 29:10 And it came to be, when Ya‛aqoḇ saw Raḥĕl the daughter of
Laḇan his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laḇan his mother’s brother, that
Ya‛aqoḇ went near and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered
the flock of Laḇan his mother’s brother.
Gen 29:11 And Ya‛aqoḇ kissed Raḥĕl, and lifted up his voice and wept.
Gen 29:12 And when Ya‛aqoḇ told Raḥĕl that he was her father’s relative
and that he was Riḇqah’s son, she ran and told her father.
Gen 29:13 And it came to be, when Laḇan heard the report about Ya‛aqoḇ
his sister’s son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him,
and brought him to his house. Then he told Laḇan all these matters.
Gen 29:14 And Laḇan said to him, “You are indeed my bone and my flesh.”
And he stayed with him for a month.
Gen 29:15 Then Laḇan said to Ya‛aqoḇ, “Because you are my relative,
should you therefore serve me for naught? Let me know, what should your
wages be?”
Gen 29:16 And Laḇan had two daughters, the name of the elder was Lĕ’ah,
and the name of the younger was Raḥĕl.
Gen 29:17 And Lĕ’ah’s eyes were weak, but Raḥĕl was lovely of form and
appearance.
Gen 29:18 And Ya‛aqoḇ loved Raḥĕl, so he said, “Let me serve you seven
years for Raḥĕl your younger daughter.”
Gen 29:19 And Laḇan said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I
should give her to another man. Stay with me.”
Gen 29:20 So Ya‛aqoḇ served seven years for Raḥĕl, and they seemed to
him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
Gen 29:21 Then Ya‛aqoḇ said to Laḇan, “Give me my wife, for my days are
completed, and let me go in to her.”
Gen 29:22 And Laḇan gathered all the men of the place and made a feast.
Gen 29:23 And it came to be in the evening, that he took Lĕ’ah his daughter
and brought her to Ya‛aqoḇ. And he went in to her.
Gen 29:24 And Laḇan gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Lĕ’ah
as a female servant.
Gen 29:25 And in the morning it came to be, that see, it was Lĕ’ah. So he
said to Laḇan, “What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Raḥĕl that I
served you? Why then have you deceived me?”
Gen 29:26 And Laḇan said, “It is not done this way in our place, to give the
younger before the first-born.
Gen 29:27 “Complete the week of this one, then we give you this one too,
for the service which you shall serve with me still another seven years.”
Gen 29:28 And Ya‛aqoḇ did so and completed her week. Then he gave him
his daughter Raḥĕl too, as wife.
Gen 29:29 And Laḇan gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Raḥĕl
as a female servant.
Gen 29:30 And he also went in to Raḥĕl, and he also loved Raḥĕl more than
Lĕ’ah. And he served with Laḇan still another seven years.
Gen 29:31 And יהוה saw that Lĕ’ah was unloved, and He opened her womb,
but Raḥĕl was barren.
Gen 29:32 And Lĕ’ah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name
Re’uḇĕn, for she said, “For יהוה has looked on my affliction, because now my
husband is going to love me.”
Gen 29:33 And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Because יהוה
has heard that I am unloved, He gave me this son too.” And she called his
name Shim‛on.
Gen 29:34 And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Now this
time my husband is joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So
his name was called Lĕwi.
Gen 29:35 And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Now I praise
.יהוה” So she called his name Yehuḏah. And she ceased bearing.

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Gen 30:1 And when Raḥĕl saw that she bore Ya‛aqoḇ no children, Raḥĕl
envied her sister, and said to Ya‛aqoḇ, “Give me children, or else I am going
to die!”
Gen 30:2 And Ya‛aqoḇ’s displeasure burned against Raḥĕl, and he said,
“Am I in the place of Elohim, who has withheld from you the fruit of the
womb?”
Gen 30:3 And she said, “See, my female servant Bilhah; go in to her, and let
her bear for me, and let me be built up from her as well.”
Gen 30:4 So she gave him Bilhah her female servant as wife, and Ya‛aqoḇ
went in to her.
Gen 30:5 And Bilhah conceived and bore Ya‛aqoḇ a son.
Gen 30:6 And Raḥĕl said, “Elohim has rightly ruled my case, and has also
heard my voice and given me a son.” So she called his name Dan.
Gen 30:7 And Raḥĕl’s female servant Bilhah conceived again and bore
Ya‛aqoḇ a second son.
Gen 30:8 And Raḥĕl said, “With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my
sister, and I have overcome.” So she called his name Naphtali.
Gen 30:9 And Lĕ’ah saw that she had ceased bearing, and she took Zilpah
her female servant and gave her to Ya‛aqoḇ as wife.
Gen 30:10 And Lĕ’ah’s female servant Zilpah bore Ya‛aqoḇ a son.
Gen 30:11 And Lĕ’ah said, “With Gaḏ!” So she called his name Gaḏ.
Gen 30:12 And Lĕ’ah’s female servant Zilpah bore Ya‛aqoḇ a second son.
Gen 30:13 And Lĕ’ah said, “I am blessed, for the daughters shall call me
blessed.” So she called his name Ashĕr.
Gen 30:14 And Re’uḇĕn went in the days of wheat harvest and found love-
apples in the field, and brought them to his mother Lĕ’ah. And Raḥĕl said to
Lĕ’ah, “Please give me some of your son’s love-apples.”
Gen 30:15 But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away
my husband? Would you take away my son’s love-apples too?” And Raḥĕl
said, “Therefore let him lie with you tonight for your son’s love-apples.”
Gen 30:16 And when Ya‛aqoḇ came out of the field in the evening, Lĕ’ah
went out to meet him and said, “Do come in to me, for indeed, I have hired
you with my son’s love-apples.” And he lay with her that night.
Gen 30:17 And Elohim listened to Lĕ’ah, and she conceived and bore
Ya‛aqoḇ a fifth son.
Gen 30:18 And Lĕ’ah said, “Elohim has given me my hire, because I have
given my female servant to my husband.” So she called his name Yissasḵar.
Gen 30:19 And Lĕ’ah conceived again and bore Ya‛aqoḇ a sixth son.
Gen 30:20 And Lĕ’ah said, “Elohim has presented me with a good present.
Now my husband is going to dwell with me, because I have borne him six
sons.” So she called his name Zeḇulun.
Gen 30:21 And afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
Gen 30:22 And Elohim remembered Raḥĕl, and Elohim listened to her and
opened her womb.
Gen 30:23 And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, “Elohim has taken
away my reproach.”
Gen 30:24 So she called his name Yosĕph, and said, “ יהוה has added to me
another son.”
Gen 30:25 And it came to be, when Raḥĕl had borne Yosĕph, that Ya‛aqoḇ
said to Laḇan, “Send me on my way, to go to my own place and to my land.
Gen 30:26 “Give my wives and my children for whom I have served you,
and let me go, for you yourself know my service which I have done for you.”
Gen 30:27 And Laḇan said to him, “If I have found favour in your eyes,
please stay, for I have diligently watched that יהוה has blessed me for your
sake.”
Gen 30:28 And he said, “Name me your wages, and I give it.”
Gen 30:29 So he said to him, “You know how I have served you and how
your livestock has been with me.
Gen 30:30 “For the little you had before I came has increased greatly, and
יהוה has blessed you since my coming. But now, when am I to provide for my
own house too?”
Gen 30:31 And he said, “What do I give you?” And Ya‛aqoḇ said, “Give me
naught! If you do this for me, I shall again feed and guard your flocks:
Gen 30:32 “Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there
all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the black ones among the lambs,
and the spotted and speckled among the goats. And these shall be my wages.
Gen 30:33 “And my righteousness shall answer for me in time to come,
when you come concerning my wages: every one that is not speckled and
spotted among the goats, and black among the lambs, it is stolen if it is with
me.”
Gen 30:34 And Laḇan said, “See, let it be according to your word!”
Gen 30:35 And on that day he set aside the male goats that were speckled
and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every
one that had some white in it, and all the black ones among the lambs, and
gave them into the hand of his sons.
Gen 30:36 And he put three days’ journey between himself and Ya‛aqoḇ,
and Ya‛aqoḇ fed the rest of Laḇan’s flocks.
Gen 30:37 And Ya‛aqoḇ took for himself rods of green poplar and of the
almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them, and exposed the white
which was in the rods.
Gen 30:38 And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the
gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, and they
conceived when they came to drink.
Gen 30:39 So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought
forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
Gen 30:40 And Ya‛aqoḇ separated the lambs, and made the flocks face
toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laḇan, but he put his own
flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laḇan’s flock.
Gen 30:41 And it came to be, whenever the strong ones of the flock
conceived, that Ya‛aqoḇ placed the rods before the eyes of the flock in the
gutters, so they would conceive among the rods.
Gen 30:42 But when the flocks were weak, he did not put them in, so the
weak ones were Laḇan’s and the strong ones Ya‛aqoḇ’s.
Gen 30:43 Thus the man increased very much, and had many flocks, and
female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

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Gen 31:1 And he heard the words of Laḇan’s sons, saying, “Ya‛aqoḇ has
taken away all that was our father’s, and from what belonged to our father he
has made all this wealth.”
Gen 31:2 And Ya‛aqoḇ would look at the face of Laḇan and see that it was
not toward him as before.
Gen 31:3 And יהוה said to Ya‛aqoḇ, “Return to the land of your fathers and to
your relatives. And I am with you.”
Gen 31:4 And Ya‛aqoḇ sent and called Raḥĕl and Lĕ’ah to the field, to his
flock,
Gen 31:5 and said to them, “I see your father’s face, that it is not toward me
as before, but the Elohim of my father has been with me.
Gen 31:6 “And you know that I have served your father with all my strength.
Gen 31:7 “Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times,
but Elohim did not allow him to do evil to me.
Gen 31:8 “When he said this, ‘The speckled are your wages,’ then all the
flocks bore speckled. And when he said this, ‘The streaked are your wages,’
then all the flocks bore streaked.
Gen 31:9 “So Elohim has taken away the livestock of your father and given
them to me.
Gen 31:10 “And it came to be, at the time when the flocks conceived, that I
lifted my eyes and looked in a dream and saw the rams which leaped upon
the flocks were streaked, speckled, and mottled.
Gen 31:11 “And the Messenger of Elohim spoke to me in a dream, saying,
‘Ya‛aqoḇ.’ And I said, ‘Here I am.’
Gen 31:12 “And He said, ‘Lift your eyes now and see, all the rams which
leap on the flocks are streaked, speckled, and mottled, for I have seen all that
Laḇan is doing to you.
Gen 31:13 ‘I am the Ĕl of Bĕyth Ĕl, where you anointed the standing column
and where you made a vow to Me. Now rise up, get out of this land, and
return to the land of your relatives.’ ”
Gen 31:14 And Raḥĕl and Lĕ’ah answered and said to him, “Do we still
have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?
Gen 31:15 “Are we not reckoned by him as strangers? For he has sold us,
and also entirely consumed our silver.
Gen 31:16 “For all the wealth which Elohim has taken from our father are
ours and our children’s. Now then, do whatever Elohim has told you.”
Gen 31:17 So Ya‛aqoḇ rose and put his sons and his wives on camels,
Gen 31:18 and he drove off all his livestock and all his possessions which
he had acquired, his property of the livestock which he had acquired in
Paddan Aram, to go to his father Yitsḥaq in the land of Kena‛an.
Gen 31:19 And when Laḇan had gone to shear his sheep, Raḥĕl stole the
house idols that were her father’s.
Gen 31:20 And Ya‛aqoḇ deceived Laḇan the Aramean, because he did not
inform him that he was about to flee.
Gen 31:21 And he fled with all that he had. And he rose up and passed over
the river, and headed toward the mountains of Gil‛aḏ.
Gen 31:22 And on the third day Laḇan was told that Ya‛aqoḇ had fled.
Gen 31:23 Then he took his brothers with him and pursued him for seven
days’ journey, and he overtook him in the mountains of Gil‛aḏ.
Gen 31:24 But in a dream by night Elohim came to Laḇan the Aramean, and
said to him, “Guard yourself, that you do not speak to Ya‛aqoḇ either good or
evil.”
Gen 31:25 Then Laḇan overtook Ya‛aqoḇ. Now Ya‛aqoḇ had pitched his tent
in the mountains, and Laḇan with his brothers pitched in the mountains of
Gil‛aḏ.
Gen 31:26 And Laḇan said to Ya‛aqoḇ, “What have you done, that you have
deceived me, and driven my daughters off like captives taken with the
sword?
Gen 31:27 “Why did you flee secretly and deceive me, and not inform me,
and I would have sent you away with joy and songs, with tambourine and
lyre?
Gen 31:28 “And you did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters.
Now you have been foolish to do this.
Gen 31:29 “It is in the power of my hand to do evil to you, but the Elohim of
your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Guard yourself, that you do not
speak to Ya‛aqoḇ either good or evil.’
Gen 31:30 “And now you have gone because you greatly long for your
father’s house, but why did you steal my mighty ones?”
Gen 31:31 And Ya‛aqoḇ answered and said to Laḇan, “Because I was
afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you tear your daughters away from me.’
Gen 31:32 “With whomever you find your mighty ones, do not let him live.
In the presence of our brothers, see for yourself what is with me and take it
with you.” For Ya‛aqoḇ did not know that Raḥĕl had stolen them.
Gen 31:33 And Laḇan went into Ya‛aqoḇ’s tent, and into Lĕ’ah’s tent, and
into the tents of the two female servants, but he did not find them. And he
came out of Lĕ’ah’s tent and entered Raḥĕl’s tent.
Gen 31:34 Now Raḥĕl had taken the house idols and put them in the camel’s
saddle, and sat on them. And Laḇan searched all about the tent but did not
find them.
Gen 31:35 And she said to her father, “Let it not displease my master that I
am unable to rise before you, for the way of women is with me.” And he
searched but did not find the house idols.
Gen 31:36 And Ya‛aqoḇ was wroth and contended with Laḇan, and Ya‛aqoḇ
answered and said to Laḇan, “What is my transgression? What is my sin, that
you have hotly pursued me?
Gen 31:37 “Now that you have searched all my goods what have you found
of all your household goods? Set it here before my brothers and your
brothers, and let them decide between the two of us!
Gen 31:38 “These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your
female goats have not miscarried their young, and I have not eaten the rams of
your sheep.
Gen 31:39 “That which was torn by beasts I did not bring to you, I myself
bore the loss of it. You required it from my hand, whether stolen by day or
stolen by night.
Gen 31:40 “Thus I was! By day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night,
and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Gen 31:41 “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.
Gen 31:42 “Unless the Elohim of my father, the Elohim of Aḇraham and the
Fear of Yitsḥaq, had been with me, you would now have sent me away
empty-handed. Elohim has seen my affliction and the labour of my hands, and
rendered judgment last night.”
Gen 31:43 And Laḇan answered and said to Ya‛aqoḇ, “These daughters are
my daughters, and these children are my children, and this flock is my flock,
and all that you see is mine. But what shall I do today to these, my daughters
or to their children whom they have borne?
Gen 31:44 “And now, come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and it shall
be a witness between you and me.”
Gen 31:45 So Ya‛aqoḇ took a stone and set it up as a standing column.
Gen 31:46 And Ya‛aqoḇ said to his brothers, “Gather stones.” And they took
stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap.
Gen 31:47 And Laḇan called it Yeḡar Sahaḏutha, but Ya‛aqoḇ called it
Gal‛ĕḏ.
Gen 31:48 And Laḇan said, “This heap is a witness between you and me
today.” That is why its name was called Gal‛ĕḏ,
Gen 31:49 also Mitspah, because he said, “Let יהוה watch between you and
me when we are out of each other’s sight.
Gen 31:50 “If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides
my daughters, although no man is with us; see, Elohim is witness between
you and me!”
Gen 31:51 And Laḇan said to Ya‛aqoḇ, “See this heap and see this standing
column, which I have placed between you and me.
Gen 31:52 “This heap is a witness, and this standing column is a witness,
that I do not pass beyond this heap to you, and you do not pass beyond this
heap and this standing column to me, for evil.
Gen 31:53 “The Elohim of Aḇraham, the Elohim of Naḥor, and the Elohim of
their father rightly rule between us!” And Ya‛aqoḇ swore by the Fear of his
father Yitsḥaq.
Gen 31:54 And Ya‛aqoḇ brought an offering on the mountain, and called his
brothers to eat bread. And they ate bread and spent the night on the mountain.
Gen 31:55 And Laḇan rose up early in the morning, and kissed his sons and
daughters and blessed them. And Laḇan left and returned to his place.