Orthodox Jewish Bible

Bereshis 31:7-23 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

7. And avichen hath deceived me, and changed my sachar aseret monim but Elohim allowed him not to harm me.

8. If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy sachar; then all the tzon bore speckled; and if he said thus, The streaked shall be thy sachar; then bore all the tzon streaked.

9. Thus Elohim hath taken away the mikneh of your av, and given them to me.

10. And it came to pass at the time that the tzon breed, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a chalom, and, hinei, the male goats mounting the tzon were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

11. And the Malach HaElohim spoke unto me in a chalom saying, Ya'akov: And I said, Hineni.

12. And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the male goats leaping upon the tzon are streaked, speckled, and spotted; for I have seen all that Lavan doeth unto thee.

13. I am HaEl Beit-El, where thou anointedst a matzevah (pillar), and where thou vowedst a neder (vow) unto Me: now arise, get thee out from HaAretz Hazot, and return unto thy eretz moledet.

14. And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any chelek or nachalah for us in bais avinu?

15. Are we not regarded by him nokhriyyot (foreigners, strangers)? For he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our kesef.

16. For all the oisher Elohim hath taken from avinu, that belongs to us and baneinu; so then, whatsoever Elohim hath said unto thee, do.

17. Then Ya'akov rose up, and set his banim and his nashim upon the gemalim;

18. And he drove all his mikneh, and all his goods which he had gotten, the mikneh of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan Aram, for to go to Yitzchak aviv in Eretz Kena'an.

19. And Lavan went to shear his tzon; and Rachel had stolen the terafim that belong to her av.

20. Unawares to Lavan HaArami, Ya'akov stole away, in that he told him not that he was fleeing.

21. So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the Nahar [i.e. the Euphrates], and set his face toward Har Gil'ad.

22. And it was told Lavan on Yom HaShlishi that Ya'akov was fled.

23. And he took his achim with him, and pursued after him derech shivat yamim; and they overtook him at Har Gil`ad.