Beresheet, starting at chapter 31
{31:1} He heard the words of Lavan's sons, saying, "Ya`akov has
taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our
father's, has he gotten all this wealth." {31:2} Ya`akov saw the
expression on Lavan's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as
before. {31:3} The LORD said to Ya`akov, "Return to the land of your
fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
{31:4} Ya`akov sent and called Rachel and Le'ah to the field to his
flock, {31:5} 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. {31:6} You know that I have served your father with all
of my strength. {31:7} Your father has deceived me, and changed my
wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me. {31:8} 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. {31:9} Thus God has taken away the cattle of
your father, and given them to me. {31:10} It happened at the time
that the flock conceive, 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. {31:11} The angel of God said to me in the
dream, 'Ya`akov,' and I said, 'Here I am.' {31:12} 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 Lavan
does to you. {31:13} I am the God of Beit-El, 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."
{31:14} Rachel and Le'ah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or
inheritance for us in our father's house? {31:15} Aren't we accounted
by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured
our money. {31:16} 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."
{31:17} Then Ya`akov rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the
camels, {31:18} and he carried away all his cattle, and all his
substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he
had gathered in Paddan-Aram, to go to Yitzchak his father to the land
of Kana`an. {31:19} Now Lavan had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel
stole the terafim that were her father's.
{31:20} Ya`akov deceived Lavan the Arammian, in that he didn't tell
him that he was running away. {31:21} So he fled with all that he had.
He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the
mountain of Gil`ad.
{31:22} Lavan was told on the third day that Ya`akov had fled.
{31:23} He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven
days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gil`ad. {31:24} God
came to Lavan, the Arammian, in a dream of the night, and said to him,
"Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Ya`akov either good or
bad."
{31:25} Lavan caught up with Ya`akov. Now Ya`akov had pitched his
tent in the mountain, and Lavan with his relatives encamped in the
mountain of Gil`ad. {31:26} Lavan said to Ya`akov, "What have you
done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like
captives of the sword? {31:27} 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; {31:28} and didn't allow me
to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly. {31:29}
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 Ya`akov either good or bad.' {31:30} Now, you want to be
gone, because you sore longed after your father's house, but why have
you stolen my gods?"
{31:31} Ya`akov answered Lavan, "Because I was afraid, for I said,
'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.' {31:32} With
whoever you find your gods, he shall not live. Before our relatives,
discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Ya`akov didn't know
that Rachel had stolen them.
{31:33} Lavan went into Ya`akov's tent, into Le'ah's tent, and into
the tent of the two maid-servants; but he didn't find them. He went
out of Le'ah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. {31:34} Now
Rachel had taken the terafim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat
on them. Lavan felt about all the tent, but didn't find them. {31:35}
She said to her father, "Don't let my lord be angry that I can't rise
up before you; for the manner of women is on me." He searched, but
didn't find the terafim.
{31:36} Ya`akov was angry, and argued with Lavan. Ya`akov answered
Lavan, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly
pursued after me? {31:37} 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. {31:38} These twenty years have I been with you. Your ewes and
your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the
rams of your flocks. {31:39} That which was torn of animals, I didn't
bring to you. I bore the loss of it. Of my hand you required it,
whether stolen by day or stolen by night. {31:40} Thus I was; in the
day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled
from my eyes. {31:41} 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. {31:42} Unless
the God of my father, the God of Avraham, and the fear of Yitzchak,
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."
{31:43} Lavan answered Ya`akov, "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? {31:44} Now come, let us make a
covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."
{31:45} Ya`akov took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. {31:46}
Ya`akov said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and
made a heap. They ate there by the heap. {31:47} Lavan called it
Yegar-Sahaduta, but Ya`akov called it Gal`ed. {31:48} Lavan said,
"This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was
named Gal`ed {31:49} and Mitzpah, for he said, "The LORD watch between
me and you, when we are absent one from another. {31:50} If you will
afflict my daughters, and if you will take wives besides my daughters,
no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you." {31:51}
Lavan said to Ya`akov, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I
have set between me and you. {31:52} 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. {31:53} The God of Avraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of
their father, judge between us." Then Ya`akov swore by the fear of his
father, Yitzchak. {31:54} Ya`akov offered a sacrifice in the mountain,
and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all
night in the mountain. {31:55} Early in the morning, Lavan rose up,
and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Lavan
departed and returned to his place.
{32:1} Ya`akov went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
{32:2} When he saw them, Ya`akov said, "This is God's host." He called
the name of that place Machanayim.
{32:3} Ya`akov sent messengers in front of him to Esav, his brother,
to the land of Se`ir, the field of Edom. {32:4} He commanded them,
saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esav: 'This is what your
servant, Ya`akov, says. I have sojourned with Lavan, and stayed until
now. {32:5} I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, men-servants, and
maid-servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in
your sight.'" {32:6} The messengers returned to Ya`akov, saying, "We
came to your brother Esav. Not only that, but he comes to meet you,
and four hundred men with him." {32:7} Then Ya`akov was greatly afraid
and was distressed: and he divided the people who were with him, and
the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies; {32:8}
and he said, "If Esav comes to the one company, and strikes it, then
the company which is left will escape." {32:9} Ya`akov said, "God of
my father Avraham, and God of my father Yitzchak, the LORD, who said
to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do
you good.' {32:10} I am not worthy of the least of all the
lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your
servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Yarden; and now I
have become two companies. {32:11} Please deliver me from the hand of
my brother, from the hand of Esav: for I fear him, lest he come and
strike me, and the mothers with the children. {32:12} You said, 'I
will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea,
which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"
{32:13} He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had
with him, a present for Esav, his brother: {32:14} two hundred female
goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, {32:15}
thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty
she-donkeys and ten foals. {32:16} He delivered them into the hands of
his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass
over before me, and put a space between herd and herd." {32:17} He
commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esav, my brother, meets you, and
asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these
before you?' {32:18} Then you shall say, 'They are your servant,
Ya`akov's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esav. Behold, he also is
behind us.'" {32:19} He commanded also the second, and the third, and
all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to
Esav, when you find him. {32:20} You shall say, 'Not only that, but
behold, your servant, Ya`akov, is 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."
{32:21} So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged
that night in the camp.
{32:22} He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two
handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the
Yabbok. {32:23} He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent
over that which he had. {32:24} Ya`akov was left alone, and wrestled
with a man there until the breaking of the day. {32:25} When he saw
that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his
thigh, and the hollow of Ya`akov's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.
{32:26} The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks."
Ya`akov said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
{32:27} He said to him, "What is your name?"
He said, "Ya`akov." {32:28} He said, "Your name will no longer be
called 'Ya`akov,' but, 'Yisra'el,' for you have fought with God and
with men, and have prevailed."
{32:29} Ya`akov asked him, "Please tell me your name."
He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him
there.
{32:30} Ya`akov called the name of the place Peni'el: for, he said,
"I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." {32:31} The
sun rose on him as he passed over Peni'el, and he limped because of
his thigh. {32:32} Therefore the children of Yisra'el don't eat the
sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day,
because he touched the hollow of Ya`akov's thigh in the sinew of the
hip.
{33:1} Ya`akov lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esav was
coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between
Le'ah, Rachel, and to the two handmaids. {33:2} He put the handmaids
and their children in front, Le'ah and her children after, and Rachel
and Yosef at the rear. {33:3} He himself passed over in front of them,
and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his
brother.
{33:4} Esav ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed
him, and they wept. {33:5} He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women
and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?"
He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
{33:6} Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they
bowed themselves. {33:7} Le'ah also and her children came near, and
bowed themselves. After them, Yosef came near with Rachel, and they
bowed themselves.
{33:8} Esav said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?"
Ya`akov said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."
{33:9} Esav said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you
have be yours."
{33:10} Ya`akov said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your
sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your
face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
{33:11} Please take the gift that I brought to you; because God has
dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him,
and he took it.
{33:12} Esav said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I
will go before you."
{33:13} Ya`akov said to him, "My lord knows that the children are
tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if
they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. {33:14} Please
let my lord pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently,
according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according
to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Se`ir."
{33:15} Esav said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who
are with me."
He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
{33:16} So Esav returned that day on his way to Se`ir. {33:17}
Ya`akov journeyed to Sukkot, built himself a house, and made shelters
for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Sukkot.
{33:18} Ya`akov came in shalom to the city of Shekhem, which is in
the land of Kana`an, when he came from Paddan-Aram; and encamped
before the city. {33:19} He bought the parcel of ground, where he had
spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shekhem's
father, for one hundred pieces of money. {33:20} He erected an altar
there, and called it El-Elohe-Yisra'el.
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