創世記31:1-21

31:1 雅各聽見拉班的兒子們有話說：「雅各把我們父親所有的都奪了去，並藉著我們父親的，得了這一切的榮耀（或譯：財）。」
31:2 雅各見拉班的氣色向他不如從前了。
31:3 耶和華對雅各說：「你要回你祖、你父之地，到你親族那裡去，我必與你同在。」
31:4 雅各就打發人，叫拉結和利亞到田野羊群那裡來，
31:5 對她們說：「我看你們父親的氣色向我不如從前了；但我父親的上帝向來與我同在。
31:6 你們也知道，我盡了我的力量服事你們的父親。
31:7 你們的父親欺哄我，十次改了我的工價；然而上帝不容他害我。
31:8 他若說：『有點的歸你作工價』，羊群所生的都有點；他若說：『有紋的歸你作工價』，羊群所生的都有紋。
31:9 這樣，上帝把你們父親的牲畜奪來賜給我了。
31:10 羊配合的時候，我夢中舉目一看，見跳母羊的公羊都是有紋的、有點的、有花斑的。
31:11 上帝的使者在那夢中呼叫我說：『雅各。』我說：『我在這裡。』
31:12 他說：『你舉目觀看，跳母羊的公羊都是有紋的、有點的、有花斑的；凡拉班向你所做的，我都看見了。
31:13 我是伯特利的上帝；你在那裡用油澆過柱子，向我許過願。現今你起來，離開這地，回你本地去吧！』」
31:14 拉結和利亞回答雅各說：「在我們父親的家裡還有我們可得的分嗎？還有我們的產業嗎？
31:15 我們不是被他當作外人嗎？因為他賣了我們，吞了我們的價值。
31:16 上帝從我們父親所奪出來的一切財物，那就是我們和我們孩子們的。現今凡上帝所吩咐你的，你只管去行吧！」
31:17 雅各起來，使他的兒子和妻子都騎上駱駝，
31:18 又帶著他在巴旦‧亞蘭所得的一切牲畜和財物，往迦南地、他父親以撒那裡去了。
31:19 當時拉班剪羊毛去了，拉結偷了他父親家中的神像。
31:20 雅各背著亞蘭人拉班偷走了，並不告訴他，
31:21 就帶著所有的逃跑。他起身過大河，面向基列山行去。

 Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken everything our father owned and has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father.” ² And Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was not what it had been.

³ Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
⁴ So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were. ⁵ He said to them, “I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me. ⁶ You know that I’ve worked for your father with all my strength, ⁷ yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me. ⁸ If he said, ‘The speckled ones will be your wages,’ then all the flocks gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, ‘The streaked ones will be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore streaked young. ⁹ So God has taken away your father’s livestock and has given them to me.
¹⁰ “In breeding season I once had a dream in which I looked up and saw that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled or spotted. ¹¹ The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob.’ I answered, ‘Here I am.’ ¹² And he said, ‘Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled or spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you. ¹³ I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.’”
¹⁴ Then Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we still have any share in the inheritance of our father’s estate? ¹⁵ Does he not regard us as foreigners? Not only has he sold us, but he has used up what was paid for us. ¹⁶ Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
¹⁷ Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels, ¹⁸ and he drove all his livestock ahead of him, along with all the goods he had accumulated in Paddan Aram,^[a] to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.
¹⁹ When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household gods. ²⁰ Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was running away. ²¹ So he fled with all he had, crossed the Euphrates River, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

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    雅各偷偷回迦南，不讓拉班知道！因為雅各清楚拉班想利用他，絕對不會讓他回去的！