¹ 야곱이 그 길을 진행하더니 하나님의 사자들이 그를 만난지라

² 야곱이 그들을 볼 때에 이르기를 `이는 하나님의 군대라' 하고 그 땅 이름을 마하나임이라 하였더라

³ 야곱이 세일 땅 에돔 들에 있는 형 에서에게로 사자들을 자기보다 앞서 보내며

⁴ 그들에게 부탁하여 가로되 `너희는 이같이 내 주 에서에게 고하라 주의 종 야곱이 말하기를 내가 라반에게 붙여서 지금까지 있었사오며

⁵ 내게 소와, 나귀와, 양떼와, 노비가 있사오므로 사람을 보내어 내 주께 고하고 내 주께 은혜 받기를 원하나이다 하더라 하라' 하였더니

⁶ 사자들이 야곱에게 돌아와 가로되 `우리가 주인의 형 에서에게 이른즉 그가 사백인을 거느리고 주인을 만나려고 오더이다'

⁷ 야곱이 심히 두렵고 답답하여 자기와 함께 한 종자와 양과, 소와, 약대를 두 떼로 나누고

⁸ 가로되 `에서가 와서 한 떼를 치면, 남은 한 떼는 피하리라' 하고

⁹ 야곱이 또 가로되 `나의 조부 아브라함의 하나님, 나의 아버지 이삭의 하나님, 여호와여 ! 주께서 전에 내게 명하시기를 네 고향 네 족속에게로 돌아가라 내가 네게 은혜를 베풀리라 하셨나이다

¹⁰ 나는 주께서 주의 종에게 베푸신 모든 은총과 모든 진리를 조금이라도 감당할 수 없사오나 내가 내 지팡이만 가지고 이 요단을 건넜더니 지금은 두 떼나 이루었나이다

¹¹ 내가 주께 간구하오니 내 형의 손에서 에서의 손에서 나를 건져내시옵소서 내가 그를 두려워하옴은 그가 와서 나와 내 처자들을 칠까 겁냄이니이다

¹² 주께서 말씀하시기를 내가 정녕 네게 은혜를 베풀어 네 씨로 바다의 셀 수 없는 모래와 같이 많게 하리라 하셨나이다'

¹³ 야곱이 거기서 경야하고 그 소유 중에서 형 에서를 위하여 예물을 택하니

¹⁴ 암염소가 이백이요, 수염소가 이십이요, 암양이 이백이요, 수양이 이십이요,

¹⁵ 젖나는 약대 삼십과 그 새끼요, 암소가 사십이요, 황소가 열이요, 암나귀가 이십이요, 그 새끼나귀가 열이라,

¹⁶ 그것을 각각 떼로 나눠 종들의 손에 맡기고 그 종들에게 이르되 나보다 앞서 건너가서 각 떼로 상거가 뜨게 하라 하고

¹⁷ 그가 또 앞선 자에게 부탁하여 가로되 `내 형 에서가 너를 만나 묻기를 네가 뉘 사람이며 어디로 가느냐 ? 네 앞엣 것은 뉘 것이냐 ? 하거든

¹⁸ 대답하기를 주의 종 야곱의 것이요, 자기 주 에서에게로 보내는 예물이오며 야곱도 우리 뒤에 있나이다 하라' 하고

¹⁹ 그 둘째와 세째와 각 떼를 따라가는 자에게 부탁하여 가로되 `너희도 에서를 만나거든 곧 이같이 그에게 고하고

²⁰ 또 너희는 말하기를 주의 종 야곱이 우리 뒤에 있다 하라' 하니 이는 야곱의 생각에 `내가 내 앞에 보내는 예물로 형의 감정을 푼 후에 대면하면 형이 혹시 나를 받으리라' 함이었더라

²¹ 그 예물은 그의 앞서 행하고 그는 무리 가운데서 경야하다가

²² 밤에 일어나 두 아내와 두 여종과 열 한 아들을 인도하여 얍복 나루를 건널새

²³ 그들을 인도하여 시내를 건네며 그 소유도 건네고

²⁴ 야곱은 홀로 남았더니 어떤 사람이 날이 새도록 야곱과 씨름하다가

²⁵ 그 사람이 자기가 야곱을 이기지 못함을 보고 야곱의 환도뼈를 치매 야곱의 환도뼈가 그 사람과 씨름할 때에 위골되었더라

²⁶ 그 사람이 가로되 `날이 새려 하니 나로 가게 하라' 야곱이 가로되 `당신이 내게 축복하지 아니하면 가게 하지 아니하겠나이다 !'

²⁷ 그 사람이 그에게 이르되 `네 이름이 무엇이냐 ?' 그가 가로되 `야곱이니이다'

²⁸ 그 사람이 가로되 `네 이름을 다시는 야곱이라 부를 것이 아니요 이스라엘이라 부를 것이니 이는 네가 하나님과 사람으로 더불어 겨루어 이기었음이니라'

²⁹ 야곱이 청하여 가로되 `당신의 이름을 고하소서' 그 사람이 가로되 `어찌 내 이름을 묻느냐 ?' 하고 거기서 야곱에게 축복한지라

³⁰ 그러므로 야곱이 그곳 이름을 브니엘이라 하였으니 그가 이르기를 내가 하나님과 대면하여 보았으나 내 생명이 보전되었다' 함이더라

³¹ 그가 브니엘을 지날 때에 해가 돋았고 그 환도뼈로 인하여 절었더라

³² 그 사람이 야곱의 환도뼈 큰 힘줄을 친고로 이스라엘 사람들이 지금까지 환도뼈 큰 힘줄을 먹지 아니하더라

¹ He 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 Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

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

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

⁵ and 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 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

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

⁸ If 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 Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given them to me.

¹⁰ It 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 The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'

¹² He 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 I 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 Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

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

¹⁶ For 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 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

¹⁸ and 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 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

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

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

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

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

²⁴ God 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 Laban 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 Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

²⁷ Why 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 and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.

²⁹ It 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 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"

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

³² Anyone 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 Laban 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 Now 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 She 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 Jacob 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 Now 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 "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 That 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 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

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.

⁴² Unless 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 Laban 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 Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."

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

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

⁴⁷ Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

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

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

⁵⁰ If 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 Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

⁵² May 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 The 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 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.

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