Now he heard the things that Laban’s sons were saying: “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and from that which was our father’s he has built up all this wealth.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
וישמע
426
אתדברי
617
בנילבן
144
לאמר
271
לקח
138
יעקב
182
את
401
כלאשר
551
לאבינו
99
ומאשר
547
לאבינו
99
עשה
375
את
401
כלהכבד
81
הזה
17
Genesis 31:2
Gematria: 2493
ויראיעקבאתפנילבןוהנהאיננועמוכתמולשלשום
Jacob also saw that Laban’s manner toward him was not as it had been in the past.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וירא
217
יעקב
182
אתפני
541
לבן
82
והנה
66
איננו
117
עמו
116
כתמול
496
שלשום
676
Genesis 31:3
Gematria: 2258
ויאמריהוהאליעקבשובאלארץאבותיךולמולדתךואהיהעמך
Then יהוה said to Jacob, “Return to your ancestors’ land—where you were born—and I will be with you.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
יהוה
26
אליעקב
213
שוב
308
אלארץ
322
אבותיך
439
ולמולדתך
536
ואהיה
27
עמך
130
Genesis 31:4
Gematria: 1685
וישלחיעקבויקראלרחלוללאההשדהאלצאנו
Jacob had Rachel and Leah called to the field, where his flock was,
If he said thus, ‘The speckled shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks would drop speckled young; and if he said thus, ‘The streaked shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks would drop streaked young.
Word-by-Word Analysis
אםכה
66
יאמר
251
נקדים
204
יהיה
30
שכרך
540
וילדו
56
כלהצאן
196
נקדים
204
ואםכה
72
יאמר
251
עקדים
224
יהיה
30
שכרך
540
וילדו
56
כלהצאן
196
עקדים
224
Genesis 31:9
Gematria: 1397
ויצלאלהיםאתמקנהאביכםויתןלי
God has taken away your father’s livestock and given it to me.
And the messenger said, ‘Note well that all the he-goats which are mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, and mottled; for I have noted all that Laban has been doing to you.
and he drove off all his livestock and all the wealth that he had amassed, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וינהג
74
אתכלמקנהו
652
ואתכלרכשו
983
אשר
501
רכש
520
מקנה
195
קנינו
216
אשר
501
רכש
520
בפדן
136
ארם
241
לבוא
39
אליצחק
239
אביו
19
ארצה
296
כנען
190
Genesis 31:19
Gematria: 3122
ולבןהלךלגזזאתצאנוותגנברחלאתהתרפיםאשרלאביה
Meanwhile Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ולבן
88
הלך
55
לגזז
47
אתצאנו
548
ותגנב
461
רחל
238
אתהתרפים
1136
אשר
501
לאביה
48
Genesis 31:20
Gematria: 1476
ויגנביעקבאתלבלבןהארמיעלבליהגידלוכיברחהוא
Jacob kept Laban the Aramean in the dark, 26. not telling him that he was fleeing,
Translation Notes
*kept Laban the Aramean in the dark — Lit. “stole the mind of Laban the Aramean”; similarly in v.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויגנב
71
יעקב
182
אתלב
433
לבן
82
הארמי
256
עלבלי
142
הגיד
22
לו
36
כי
30
ברח
210
הוא
12
Genesis 31:21
Gematria: 3156
ויברחהואוכלאשרלוויקםויעבראתהנהרוישםאתפניוהרהגלעד
and fled with all that he had. Soon he was across the Euphrates and heading toward the hill country of Gilead.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויברח
226
הוא
12
וכלאשרלו
593
ויקם
156
ויעבר
288
אתהנהר
661
וישם
356
אתפניו
547
הר
205
הגלעד
112
Genesis 31:22
Gematria: 1270
ויגדללבןביוםהשלישיכיברחיעקב
On the third day, Laban was told that Jacob had fled.
Why did you flee in secrecy and mislead me and not tell me? I would have sent you off with festive music, with timbrel and lyre.
Word-by-Word Analysis
למה
75
נחבאת
461
לברח
240
ותגנב
461
אתי
411
ולאהגדת
449
לי
40
ואשלחך
365
בשמחה
355
ובשרים
558
בתף
482
ובכנור
284
Genesis 31:28
Gematria: 3292
ולאנטשתנילנשקלבניולבנתיעתההסכלתעשו
You did not even let me kiss my sons and daughters sons and daughters So NJPS; Heb. levanai we-livnotai, a stock phrase (see, e.g., 46.15; 1 Sam. 30.6; Neh. 5.5) that means “progeny,” thus including grandchildren. good-by! It was a foolish thing for you to do.
I have it in my power to do you harm; but the God of your father’s [house] said to me last night, ‘Beware of attempting anything with Jacob, good or bad.’
Word-by-Word Analysis
ישלאל
371
ידי
24
לעשות
806
עמכם
170
רע
270
ואלהי
52
אביכם
73
אמש
341
אמר
241
אלי
41
לאמר
271
השמר
545
לך
50
מדבר
246
עםיעקב
292
מטוב
57
עדרע
344
Genesis 31:30
Gematria: 3298
ועתההלךהלכתכינכסףנכספתהלביתאביךלמהגנבתאתאלהי
Very well, you had to leave because you were longing for your father’s house; but why did you steal my gods?”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ועתה
481
הלך
55
הלכת
455
כינכסף
240
נכספתה
615
לבית
442
אביך
33
למה
75
גנבת
455
אתאלהי
447
Genesis 31:31
Gematria: 3638
ויעןיעקבויאמרללבןכייראתיכיאמרתיפןתגזלאתבנותיךמעמי
Jacob answered Laban, saying, “I was afraid because I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
But anyone with whom you find your gods shall not remain alive! In the presence of our kin, point out what I have of yours and take it.” Jacob, of course, did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and Leah’s tent and the tents of the two maidservants; but he did not find them. Leaving Leah’s tent, he entered Rachel’s tent.
For she said to her father, “Let not my lord take it amiss that I cannot rise before you, for I am in a womanly way.” Thus he searched, but could not find the household idols.
Now Jacob became incensed and took up his grievance with Laban. Jacob spoke up and said to Laban, “What is my crime, what is my guilt that you should pursue me?
You rummaged through all my things; what have you found of all your household objects? Set it here, before my kin and yours, and let them decide between us two.
Word-by-Word Analysis
כימששת
1070
אתכלכלי
511
מהמצאת
576
מכל
90
כליביתך
492
שים
350
כה
25
נגד
57
אחי
19
ואחיך
45
ויוכיחו
66
בין
62
שנינו
416
Genesis 31:38
Gematria: 2676
זהעשריםשנהאנכיעמךרחליךועזיךלאשכלוואיליצאנךלאאכלתי
“These twenty years I have spent in your service, your ewes and she-goats never miscarried, nor did I feast on rams from your flock.
Of the twenty years that I spent in your household, I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flocks; and you changed my wages time and again. ”
Had not the God of my father’s [house]—the God of Abraham and the Fear Fear Meaning of Heb. paḥad uncertain. of Isaac—been with me, you would have sent me away empty-handed. But it was my plight and the toil of my hands that God took notice of—and gave judgment on last night.”
Then Laban spoke up and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks; all that you see is mine. Yet what can I do now about my daughters or the children they have borne?
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויען
136
לבן
82
ויאמר
257
אליעקב
213
הבנות
463
בנתי
462
והבנים
113
בני
62
והצאן
152
צאני
151
וכל
56
אשראתה
907
ראה
206
ליהוא
52
ולבנתי
498
מהאעשה
421
לאלה
66
היום
61
או
7
לבניהן
147
אשר
501
ילדו
50
Genesis 31:44
Gematria: 2586
ועתהלכהנכרתהבריתאניואתהוהיהלעדביניובינך
Come, then, let us make a pact, you and I, that there may be a witness between you and me.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ועתה
481
לכה
55
נכרתה
675
ברית
612
אני
61
ואתה
412
והיה
26
לעד
104
ביני
72
ובינך
88
Genesis 31:45
Gematria: 767
ויקחיעקבאבןוירימהמצבה
Thereupon Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
And Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” So they took stones and made a mound; and they partook of a meal there by the mound.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
יעקב
182
לאחיו
55
לקטו
145
אבנים
103
ויקחו
130
אבנים
103
ויעשוגל
425
ויאכלו
73
שם
340
עלהגל
138
Genesis 31:47
Gematria: 1996
ויקראלולבןיגרשהדותאויעקבקראלוגלעד
Laban named it Yegar-sahadutha, Yegar-sahadutha Aramaic for “the mound (or: stone-heap) of witness.” but Jacob named it Gal-ed. Gal-ed Heb. for “the mound (or: stone-heap) of witness,” reflecting the name Gilead, v. 23.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויקראלו
353
לבן
82
יגר
213
שהדותא
716
ויעקב
188
קרא
301
לו
36
גלעד
107
Genesis 31:48
Gematria: 1613
ויאמרלבןהגלהזהעדביניובינךהיוםעלכןקראשמוגלעד
And Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” That is why it was named Gal-ed;
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
לבן
82
הגל
38
הזה
17
עד
74
ביני
72
ובינך
88
היום
61
עלכן
170
קראשמו
647
גלעד
107
Genesis 31:49
Gematria: 2706
והמצפהאשראמריצףיהוהביניובינךכינסתראישמרעהו
and [it was called] Mizpah, because he said, “May יהוה watch watch Heb. yiṣeph, associated with Mizpah. between you and me, when we are out of sight of each other.
If you ill-treat my daughters or take other wives besides my daughters—though no one else one else Or “participant,” i.e., one of the witnesses to this agreement, who is thereby authorized to intervene if it is violated; cf. Kimhi, and see the Dictionary under ’ish. be about, remember, it is God who will be witness between you and me.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
אםתענה
566
אתבנתי
863
ואםתקח
555
נשים
400
עלבנתי
562
אין
61
איש
311
עמנו
166
ראה
206
אלהים
86
עד
74
ביני
72
ובינך
88
Genesis 31:51
Gematria: 2165
ויאמרלבןליעקבהנההגלהזהוהנההמצבהאשריריתיביניובינך
And Laban said to Jacob, “Here is this mound and here the pillar which I have set up between you and me:
this mound shall be witness and this pillar shall be witness that I am not to cross to you past this mound, and that you are not to cross to me past this mound and this pillar, with hostile intent.
May the God of Abraham’s [house] and the god of Nahor’s [house]”—their ancestral deities—“judge between us.” And Jacob swore by the Fear Fear Meaning of Heb. paḥad uncertain. of his father Isaac’s [house].