¹ And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and of what was our father's he has acquired all this glory.

² And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and behold, it was not toward him as previously.

³ And Jehovah said to Jacob, Return into the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

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

⁵ and said to them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as previously; 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 mocked me, and has changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

⁸ If he said thus; The speckled shall be thy hire, then all the flocks bore speckled; and if he said thus: The ringstraked shall be thy hire, then all the flocks bore ringstraked.

⁹ And God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me.

¹⁰ And it came to pass at the time of the ardour of the flocks, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams that leaped upon the flocks were ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

¹¹ And the Angel of God said to me in a dream, Jacob! And I said, Here am I.

¹² And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see: all the rams that leap upon the flock are ringstraked, speckled, and spotted; for I have seen all that Laban does to thee.

¹³ I am the ùGod of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, where thou vowedst a vow to me. Now arise, depart out of this land, and return to the land of thy kindred.

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 reckoned of him strangers? for he has sold us, and has even constantly devoured our money.

¹⁶ For all the wealth that God has taken from our father is ours and our children's; and now whatever God has said to thee do.

¹⁷ And Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels,

¹⁸ and carried away all his cattle, and all his property that he had acquired -- the cattle of his possessions that he had acquired in Padan-Aram, to go to Isaac his father, into the land of Canaan.

¹⁹ And Laban had gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that [belonged] to her father.

²⁰ And Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he fled.

²¹ And he fled with all that he had; and he rose up and passed over the river, and set his face [toward] mount Gilead.

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

²³ And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey, and overtook him on mount Gilead.

²⁴ And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

²⁵ And Laban came up with Jacob; and Jacob had pitched his tent on the mountain; Laban also with his brethren pitched on mount Gilead.

²⁶ And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast deceived me, and hast carried away my daughters as captives of war?

²⁷ Why didst thou flee away covertly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have conducted thee with mirth and with songs, with tambour and with harp;

²⁸ and hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now thou hast acted foolishly.

²⁹ It would be in the power of my hand to do you hurt; but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Take care that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

³⁰ And now that thou must needs be gone, because thou greatly longedst after thy father's house, why hast thou stolen my gods?

³¹ And Jacob answered and said to Laban, I was afraid; for I said, Lest thou shouldest take by force thy daughters from me.

³² With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live. Before our brethren discern what is thine with me, and take [it] to thee. But 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 two handmaids' tents, and found nothing; and he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

³⁴ Now Rachel had taken the teraphim and put them under the camel's saddle; and she sat upon them. And Laban explored all the tent, but found nothing.

³⁵ And she said to her father, Let it not be an occasion of anger in the eyes of my lord that I cannot rise up before thee, for it is with me after the manner of women. And he searched carefully, but did not find the teraphim.

³⁶ And Jacob was angry, and he disputed with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my fault, what my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

³⁷ Whereas thou hast explored all my baggage, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set [it] here before my brethren and thy brethren, and let them decide between us both.

³⁸ These twenty years have I been with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten.

³⁹ What was torn I have not brought to thee; I had to bear the loss of it: of my hand hast thou required it, [whether] stolen by day or stolen by night.

⁴⁰ Thus it was with me: in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.

⁴¹ I have been these twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

⁴² Had not the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, been with me, it is certain thou wouldest have sent me away now empty. God has looked upon my affliction and the labour of my hands, and has judged last night.

⁴³ And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the flock is my flock, and all that thou seest is mine; but as for my daughters, what can I do this day to them, or to their sons whom they have brought forth?

⁴⁴ And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be a witness between me and thee.

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

⁴⁶ And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones. And they took stones, and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap.

⁴⁷ And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

⁴⁸ And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed,

⁴⁹ -- and Mizpah; for he said, Let Jehovah watch between me and thee, when we shall be hidden one from another:

⁵⁰ if thou shouldest afflict my daughters, or if thou shouldest take wives besides my daughters, -- no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and thee!

⁵¹ And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar which I have set up between me and thee:

⁵² [let] this heap be witness, and the pillar a witness, that neither I pass this heap [to go] to thee, nor thou pass this heap and this pillar [to come] to me, for harm.

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 upon the mountain, and invited his brethren to eat bread: and they ate bread, and lodged on the mountain.

⁵⁵ And Laban rose early in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban went and returned to his place.

¹ And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a man of Adullam whose name was Hirah.

² And Judah saw there the daughter of a Canaanitish man whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in to her.

³ And she conceived and bore a son; and he called his name Er.

⁴ And she again conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.

⁵ And again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah; and he was at Chezib when she bore him.

⁶ And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

⁷ And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah, and Jehovah slew him.

⁸ Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to thy brother's wife, and fulfil to her the brother-in-law's duty, and raise up seed to thy brother.

⁹ But when Onan knew that the seed should not be his own, it came to pass when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled [it] on the ground, in order to give no seed to his brother.

¹⁰ And the thing which he did was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and he slew him also.

¹¹ And Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in thy father's house, until Shelah my son is grown; for he said, Lest he die also, as his brethren. And Tamar went and remained in her father's house.

¹² And as the days were multiplied, Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. And Judah was comforted, and he went up to his sheep-shearers, to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

¹³ And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.

¹⁴ And she put the garments of her widowhood off from her, and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the entry of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as wife.

¹⁵ And Judah saw her, and took her for a harlot; because she had covered her face.

¹⁶ And he turned aside to her by the way, and said, Come, I pray thee, let me go in to thee; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest Come in to me?

¹⁷ And he said, I will send [thee] a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give [me] a pledge, until thou send it?

¹⁸ And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy lace, and thy staff which is in thy hand. And he gave [it] her, and went in to her; and she conceived by him.

¹⁹ And she arose and went away; and she laid by her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

²⁰ And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand; but he found her not.

²¹ And he asked the men of her place, saying, Where is the prostitute that was at Enaim, by the way-side? And they said, There was no prostitute here.

²² And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her; and also the men of the place said, No prostitute has been here.

²³ Then Judah said, Let her take [it] for herself, lest we be put to shame. Behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

²⁴ And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law has committed fornication, and behold, she is also with child by fornication. And Judah said, Bring her forth, that she may be burned.

²⁵ When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man to whom these [belong] am I with child; and she said, Acknowledge, I pray thee, whose are this signet, and this lace, and this staff.

²⁶ And Judah acknowledged [them], and said, She is more righteous than I, because I have not given her to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

²⁷ And it came to pass at the time of her delivery, that behold, twins were in her womb.

²⁸ And it came to pass when she brought forth, that one stretched out [his] hand, and the midwife took it and bound round his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.

²⁹ And it came to pass as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out; and she said, How hast thou broken forth! on thee be the breach! And they called his name Pherez.

³⁰ And afterwards came out his brother, round whose hand was the scarlet thread; and they called his name Zerah.