Genesis 31:33-55 ▼

33 And Laban went into the tent of Jacob, and into the tent of Leah, and into the tent of the two maidservants, and he did not find anything. And he went out of the tent of Leah and entered into the tent of Rachel.

34 And Rachel had taken the teraphim and put them in the saddle of the camel, and sat on them. And Laban felt all about the tent, and he did not find them.

35 And she said to her father, “Do not let it burn in the eyes of my lord that I am not able to rise before you, for the way of women is with me.” And he searched and he did not find the teraphim.

36 And Jacob's anger burned, and he strove with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued after me?

37 For you have felt about all my things, what have you found of all the things of your house? Set it here before my brothers and your brothers, that they may judge between the two of us.

38 These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flock I have not eaten.

39 That which was torn I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it. From my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

40 There I was: In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost in the night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

41 This is my twentieth year in your house. I served you four and ten years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wage 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 toil of my hands and He judged last night.”

43 And Laban answered and said to Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, and these sons are my sons, and the flock is my flock, and all that you see is mine. And for my daughters, what can I do to these today, or to their sons whom they have borne?

44 And now, come, let us cut a covenant, I and you; and let it be a witness between me and between you.”

45 And Jacob took a stone and raised it up as a pillar.

46 And Jacob said to his brothers, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap.

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

48 And Laban said, “This is the heap—a witness between me and between you today.” Upon thus he called its name Galeed,

49 and Mizpah, because he said, “May YHWH watch between me and between you when we are hidden one from another.

50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us, see that God is witness between me and between you.”

51 And Laban said to Jacob, “Behold, this is the heap, and behold, the pillar that I have placed between me and between you.

52 This heap is a witness, and the pillar is 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 evil.

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 sacrificed a sacrifice on the mountain, and he called his brothers to eat bread, and they ate bread and spent the night on the mountain.

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