Jubilees 29:1-20

¹Now it happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Laban went to shear his sheep; for they were a three days' journey distant from him. And Jacob saw that Laban was going to shear his sheep.

²And Jacob called Leah and Rachel, and spoke kindly to them, urging them to come with him to the land of Canaan. For he told them how he had seen everything in a dream, even all that He had spoken to him, that he should return to his father's house. And they said: 'To every place where you go we will go with you.'

³And Jacob blessed the God of Isaac his father, and the God of Abraham his father's father, and he arose and mounted his wives and his children, and took all his possessions and crossed the river, and came to the land of Gilead. And Jacob hid his intention from Laban and did not tell him.

⁴And in the seventh year of the fourth week Jacob turned his face toward Gilead in the first month, on the twenty-first of it. [2135 A.M.] And Laban pursued after him and overtook Jacob in the mountain of Gilead in the third month, on the thirteenth of it.

⁵And the Lord did not allow him to injure Jacob; for he appeared to him in a dream by night. And Laban spoke to Jacob.

⁶And on the fifteenth of those days Jacob made a feast for Laban, and for all who came with him, and Jacob swore to Laban that day, and Laban also to Jacob, that neither should cross the mountain of Gilead to the other with evil purpose.

⁷And he made a heap there for a witness; therefore the name of that place is called 'The Heap of Witness,' after this heap.

⁸But previously they used to call the land of Gilead the land of the Rephaim; for it was the land of the Rephaim, and the Rephaim were born there—giants whose height was ten, nine, eight, down to seven cubits.

⁹And their habitation was from the land of the children of Ammon to Mount Hermon, and the seats of their kingdom were Karnaim and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, and Misur, and Beon.

¹⁰And the Lord destroyed them because of the evil of their deeds; for they were very malignant, and the Amorites dwelt in their place, wicked and sinful, and there is no people today which has carried out all their sins to the full, and they no longer have length of life on the earth.

¹¹And Jacob sent Laban away, and he departed into Mesopotamia, the land of the East, and Jacob returned to the land of Gilead.

¹²And he passed over the Jabbok in the ninth month, on the eleventh of it. And on that day Esau, his brother, came to him, and he was reconciled to him, and departed from him to the land of Seir, but Jacob dwelt in tents.

¹³And in the first year of the fifth week in this jubilee [2136 A.M.] he crossed the Jordan, and dwelt beyond the Jordan, and he pastured his sheep from the sea of the heap to Bethshan, and to Dothan and to the forest of Akrabbim.

¹⁴And he sent to his father Isaac of all his goods—clothing, and food, and meat, and drink, and milk, and butter, and cheese, and some dates of the valley.

¹⁵And to his mother Rebecca also four times a year—between the times of the months, between ploughing and reaping, and between autumn and the rainy season, and between winter and spring—to the tower of Abraham.

¹⁶For Isaac had returned from the Well of the Oath and gone up to the tower of his father Abraham, and he dwelt there apart from his son Esau.

¹⁷For in the days when Jacob went to Mesopotamia, Esau took for himself a wife Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, and he gathered together all the flocks of his father and his wives, and went up and dwelt on Mount Seir, and left Isaac his father at the Well of the Oath alone.

¹⁸And Isaac went up from the Well of the Oath and dwelt in the tower of Abraham his father on the mountains of Hebron.

¹⁹And there Jacob sent all that he did send to his father and his mother from time to time, all that they needed, and they blessed Jacob with all their heart and with all their soul.

²⁰And there Jacob sent all that he did send to his father and his mother from time to time, all that they needed, and they blessed Jacob with all their heart and with all their soul.