can't rise up before you; for the manner of women is on me."
He searched, but didn't find the teraphim.
031:036 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered
Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have
hotly pursued after me?
031:037 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.
031:038 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.
031:039 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.
031:040 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me,
and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
031:041 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.
031:042 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear
of Isaac, 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."
031:043 Laban answered Jacob, "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?
031:044 Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be
for a witness between me and you."
031:045 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
031:046 Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones,
and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
031:047 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,{"Jegar Sahadutha"
means "Witness Heap" in Aramaic.} but Jacob called
it Galeed.{"Galeed" means "Witness Heap" in Hebrew.}
031:048 Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day."
Therefore it was named Galeed
031:049 and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you,
when we are absent one from another.
031:050 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."
031:051 Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar,
which I have set between me and you.
031:052 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.
031:053 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father,
judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of