Now  ¹Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father; and from what belonged to our father he has made all this  ²wealth.

And Jacob saw Laban's countenance, and now it was not favorable toward him as previously.

And Jehovah said to Jacob, Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.

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

And he said to them, I see that your father's countenance is not favorable toward me as previously, but the God of my father has been with me.

And you yourselves know that with all my strength I have served your father.

And your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to harm me.

If he spoke in this way, The speckled shall be your wages, then all the flock bore speckled; and if he spoke in this way, The streaked shall be your wages, then all the flock bore streaked.

Thus God has  ¹taken away your father's livestock and given them to me.

And at the time the flock was breeding, I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream; and there were the male goats, leaping upon the flock — streaked, speckled, and spotted.

And the  ¹Angel of God said to me in the dream, Jacob; and I said, Here I am.

And He said, Lift up your eyes now, and see that all the male goats which leap upon the flock are streaked, speckled, and spotted; for  ¹I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

I am the  ¹God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to Me. Rise up now; go out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.

And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father's house?

Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us and has even entirely used up the money given for us.

Surely all the wealth which God has taken away from our father is ours and our children's. So do now whatever God has said to you.

Then Jacob rose up and set his sons and his wives upon the camels;

And he drove away all his livestock and all his property which he had acquired, the livestock in his possession which he had acquired in Paddan-aram, in order to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the  ¹teraphim that were her father's.

And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramaean by not telling him that he was fleeing.

So he fled with all that he had, and he rose up and crossed over the  ¹River and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

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

And he took his brothers with him and pursued after him the distance of a seven days' journey; and he overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

And  ¹God came to Laban the Aramaean in a dream of the night and said to him, Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad.

And Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his brothers also pitched tents in the hill country of Gilead.

And Laban said to Jacob, What are you doing deceiving me and carrying away my daughters like captives of the sword?

Why did you flee secretly and steal away from me and not tell me, when I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with tambourine and with lyre?

And you did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters. Now you have acted foolishly.

It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad.

And now, though you had to go because you longed greatly for your father's house, why did you steal my gods?

And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid, for I  ¹thought that you might take your daughters from me by force.

The one with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our brothers indicate what there is with me that is yours, and take it. Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

And Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and into the two female servants' tent, but he did not find them. Then he went from Leah's tent and entered Rachel's tent.

Now Rachel had taken the teraphim and put them in the camel's saddle, and she sat upon them. And Laban rummaged through all the tent but did not find them.

And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before you, for the manner of women is upon me. So he searched but did not find the teraphim.

And Jacob became angry and contended with Laban; and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my transgression? What is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued me?

Although you have rummaged through all my possessions, what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my brothers and your brothers, that they may decide between the two of us.

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

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

Thus I was: By day the dry heat consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

These twenty years have I 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.

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Dread of Isaac, had not 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.

And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?

So come now; let us make a covenant, I and you; and let it be a witness between me and you.

So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.

And Jacob said to his brothers, Gather stones. So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

And Laban called it  ¹Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it  ²Galeed.

And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and you today. Therefore its name was called Galeed

And  ¹Mizpah, because he said, Jehovah watch between me and you when we are absent from one another.

If you afflict my daughters, and if you take wives besides my daughters — even though no man is with us — see, God is witness between me and you.

And Laban said to Jacob, Here is this heap, and here is the pillar which I have set between me and you.

This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a  ¹witness, that I will not pass beyond this heap to you and that you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the Dread of his father Isaac.

And Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his brothers to eat a meal, and they ate a meal and spent the night in the mountain.

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

And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God's camp. So he called the name of that place  ¹Mahanaim.

And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, into the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

And he commanded them, saying, Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban and stayed until now;

And I have oxen and donkeys and flocks, and male servants and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord this, that I may find favor in your sight.

And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and he also is coming to meet you; and four hundred men are with him.

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two camps;

And he said, If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, then the camp which is left will escape.

Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who said to me, Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will do you good,

I am not worthy of all the lovingkindnesses and all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant; for with my staff only I crossed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

Deliver me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and attack me and the mother with the children.

But You have said, I will surely do you good and make your seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

And he spent that night there. Then from what he had with him he took a  ¹present for Esau his brother:

Two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

Thirty nursing camels and their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, Cross over before me, and put a space between each drove.

And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, To whom do you belong? And where are you going? And whose animals are these before you?

Then you will say, Your servant Jacob's; it is a present sent to my lord Esau; and now he also is behind us.

And he commanded also the second and the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, In this way you shall speak to Esau when you find him,

And you shall also say, Your servant Jacob is right behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.

So the present crossed over before him, and he himself spent that night in the camp.

And he rose up that night and took his two wives and his two female servants and his eleven children and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.

And he took them and sent them over the stream and sent over what he had.

And Jacob was left alone, and a  ¹man wrestled with him until the break of dawn.

And when  ¹the man saw that He did not prevail against him, He  ²touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob's hip was dislocated as he wrestled with Him.

And the  ¹man said, Let Me go, for the dawn is breaking. But  ²Jacob said, I will not let You go unless You bless me.

And He said to him,  ¹What is your name? And he said, Jacob.

And He said, Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but  ¹Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.

And Jacob asked Him and said, Please tell me Your name. But He said, Why is it that you ask My name? And He blessed him there ¹.

And Jacob called the name of the place  ¹Peniel, for, he said, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been preserved.

And the  ¹sun rose upon him as he crossed over Penuel, and he limped because of his hip.

Therefore the children of Israel do not eat the thigh muscle, which is upon the socket of the hip, to this day, because He touched the socket of Jacob's hip at the thigh muscle.

And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and there was Esau coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and among Rachel and among the two female servants.

And he put the female servants and their children in front, and Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.

And he himself passed on before them and bowed down to the ground seven times until he came near to his brother.

And Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and  ¹kissed him, and they wept.

And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God has graciously given your servant.

Then the female servants came near, they and their children, and they bowed down.

And Leah also came near with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed down.

And  ¹Esau said, What do you mean by all this camp which I met? And he said, To find favor in the sight of my lord.

And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let what you have be yours.

And Jacob said, No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then take my present from my hand; for I see your face as one sees the face of God, and you have received me favorably.

Please take my blessing which has been brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have all that I need. So he urged him, and he took it.

Then  ¹Esau said, Let us take our journey and go, and I will go before you.

And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are frail and that the nursing flocks and herds are a concern to me; and if they overdrive them for one day, all the flock will die.

Let my lord please pass on before his servant, and I will lead on slowly according to the pace of the cattle which are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.

So Esau said, Let me please leave with you some of the people who are with me. And he said, What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.

So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

And Jacob journeyed to Succoth and  ¹built a house for himself and made booths for his livestock; therefore the name of the place is called  ²Succoth.

And Jacob came  ¹safely to the city of  ²Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and he camped before the city.

And he bought the piece of land, where he had pitched his tent, from the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money.

And there he erected an  ¹altar and called it  ²El-Elohe-Israel.