Genesis [Origin].
31.
He sh'ma ·heard obeyed· the words of Laban White’s sons, saying, “Jacob Supplanter has taken away all that was our father’s. From that which was our father’s, has he gotten all this wealth.” 
Jacob Supplanter saw the expression on Laban White’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. 
Adonai said to Jacob Supplanter, “Teshuvah ·Completely return· to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.” 
Jacob Supplanter sent and called Rachel Ewe sheep and Leah Weary to the field to his flock, 
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. 
You know that I have served your father with all of my strength. 
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me. 
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. 
Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me. 
During mating season, 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. 
Ha mal'ak Elohim The Angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob Supplanter,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’ 
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 White does to you. 
I am HaEl Beit-El the God of House of God, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and teshuvah ·completely return· to the land of your birth.’” 
Rachel Ewe sheep and Leah Weary answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house? 
Are not we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money. 
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.” (6) 
Then Jacob Supplanter rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels, 
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 Elevated, to go to Isaac Laughter his father, to the land of Canaan Humbled. 
Now Laban White had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel Ewe sheep stole the household deities that were her father’s. 
Jacob Supplanter deceived Laban White the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away. 
So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead. 
Laban White was told on the third day that Jacob Supplanter had fled. 
He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead. 
God came to Laban White, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob Supplanter either good or bad.” 
Laban White caught up with Jacob Supplanter. Now Jacob Supplanter had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban White with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead. 
Laban White said to Jacob Supplanter, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword? 
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; 
and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly. 
It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob Supplanter either good or bad.’ 
Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my deities?” 
Jacob Supplanter answered Laban White, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’ 
Anyone you find your deities with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob Supplanter didn’t know that Rachel Ewe sheep had stolen them. 
Laban White went into Jacob Supplanter’s tent, into Leah Weary’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah Weary’s tent, and entered into Rachel Ewe sheep’s tent. 
Now Rachel Ewe sheep had taken the household deities, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban White felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them. 
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 household deities. 
Jacob Supplanter was angry, and argued with Laban White. Jacob Supplanter answered Laban White, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me? 
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. 
“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. 
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. 
This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes. 
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. 
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham Father of a multitude, and the fear of Isaac Laughter, 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.” (7) 
Laban White answered Jacob Supplanter, “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 today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne? 
Now come, let us make a covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties·, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you.” 
Jacob Supplanter took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 
Jacob Supplanter said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap. 
Laban White called it Jegar Sahadutha Heap of witness, but Jacob Supplanter called it Galeed Heap of stones, Heap of witness. 
Laban White said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed Heap of stones, Heap of witness 
and Mizpah, for he said, “Adonai watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another. 
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.” 
Laban White said to Jacob Supplanter, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you. 
May this heap and the pillar be 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. 
The God of Abraham Father of a multitude, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob Supplanter swore by the fear of his father, Isaac Laughter. 
Jacob Supplanter offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain. (Maftir ·Conclusion·) 
Early in the morning, Laban White rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban White departed and returned to his place.