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Vayetze 1st Aliyah (Gen 28)
10 Then Ya‘akov departed from Be’er-Sheva and went toward
Haran. 11 He came to a certain place and stopped there all
night because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones
of the place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that
place to sleep. 12 He had a dream, and behold, a ladder was
resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and
behold, the messengers of Elohim were ascending and
descending on it.

13 And behold, ‫יהוה‬ stood above it, and said: “I am ‫יהוה‬ Elohim
of Avraham your father and the Elohim of Yitz’chak. The land
on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your seed. 14 And
your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall
spread out to the west and to the east, and to the north and to
the south. And in you and in your seed shall all the clans of the
earth be blessed.

15 And behold, I am with you and shall guard you in all places
wherever you go, and shall bring you back to this land. For I
will not leave you until I have done that which I have spoken
concerning you.”
16 And Ya‘akov awoke from his sleep and said, “Truly, ‫יהוה‬ is in
this place, and I did not know it.”

17 And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This
is none other than the house of Elohim; and this is the gate of
heaven.”
18 And Ya‘akov rose early in the morning, and took the stone that
he had put for his pillows and set it up as a pillar and poured oil
on top of it. 19 He called the name of that place Beit-El [house
of God], though, previously the name of the city was called
Luz.

20 And Ya‘akov made a vow, saying, “If Elohim will be with me
and will keep me in this way that I am going and will give me
bread to eat and a garment to put on 21 so that I return to my
father's house in peace, then ‫יהוה‬ will be my Elohim 22 and
this stone which I have set for a pillar shall be Elohim’s house,
and of all that you give me I shall certainly give a tenth to you.”

Vayetze 2nd Aliyah (Gen 29)
1 Then Ya‘akov continued on his journey and came to the land of
the people of the east. 2 He looked, and saw a well in the field,
and behold, there were three flocks of sheep lying near it for
out of that well they watered the flocks. Now a large stone was
over the mouth of the well.

3 When all the flocks were gathered there, they rolled the stone
from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, then put the
stone back to its place over the mouth of the well.
4 Ya’akov said to them, “My brothers, where are you from?”
And they said, “We are from Haran.”
5 And he said to them, “Do you know Lavan the son of Nachor?”
And they said, “We know him.”

6 And he said to them, “Are things going well with him?”
And they said, “Things are going well, and behold, his daughter
Rachel is coming with the sheep.”
7 And he said, “The day is yet long; it is not the time to take in the
livestock. Water the sheep and go, pasture.”

8 And they said, “We cannot do that, until all the flocks are
gathered together, and they will roll the stone off the mouth of
the well, and we shall then water the sheep.”
9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her
father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

10 And it came to pass, when Ya‘akov saw Rachel the daughter
of Lavan his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Lavan his
mother’s brother, that Ya‘akov went near and rolled the stone
off the mouth of the well, and he watered the flock of Lavan his
mother’s brother. 11 And Ya‘akov kissed Rachel and he raised
his voice and wept.

12 And Ya‘akov told Rachel that he was her father’s relative and
that he was Rivkah’s son, and she ran and told her father.
13 Now it came to pass when Lavan heard the report of Ya‘akov,
his sister's son, that he ran towards him, and he embraced him,
and he kissed him, and he brought him into his house. He told
Lavan all these matters.

14 And Lavan said to him, “Indeed, you are my bone and my
flesh.”
And so he stayed with him a whole month. 15 And Lavan said to
Ya‘akov, “Because you are my relative, should you work for me
gratis? Tell me what your wages shall be.”
16 Now Lavan had two daughters; the name of the elder was
Le’ah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

17 Le’ah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel had lovely features and a
lovely appearance.

Vayetze 3rd Aliyah (Gen 29)
18 Now Ya‘akov loved Rachel and said, “I will serve you seven
years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
19 Lavan said, “It is better that I give her to you than to give her
to another man. Stay with me.” 20 So Ya‘akov served seven
years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days, for
the love he had to her.

21 Then Ya‘akov said to Lavan, “Give me my wife, for my days
are completed, that I may go in to her.”
22 And Lavan brought together all the people of the place and
made a feast. 23 And it came to pass in the evening, he took
his daughter Le’ah and brought her to him, and Ya‘akov came
to her. 24 And Lavan gave his maidservant Zilpah to his
daughter Le’ah as a maidservant.

25 And it came to pass in the morning, and behold it was Le’ah!
So he said to Lavan, “What is this you have done to me? Was
it not for Rachel that I served with you? Why have you
deceived me?”
26 And Lavan said, “It is not the custom in our place to give the
younger daughter before the firstborn.

27 Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other
also, for the service that you shall render me for another seven
years.”
28 And Ya‘akov did so, and he completed the week of this one,
and he gave his daughter Rachel to him as a wife. 29 And
Lavan gave his daughter Rachel his maidservant Bilhah, for a
maidservant.

30 And he came also to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more
than Le’ah. And he served with him yet another seven years.
31 And ‫יהוה‬ saw that Le’ah was unloved, so he opened her
womb, but Rachel was barren. 32 And Le’ah conceived and
bore a son, and she named him Re’uven [see, a son!], for she
said, “Because ‫יהוה‬ has seen my affliction, for now my
husband will love me.”

33 And she conceived again and bore a son, and she said,
“Since ‫יהוה‬ has heard that I am unloved, he gave me this one
too.” So she named him Shim‘on [hearing].
34 And she conceived again and bore a son, and she said, “Now
this time my husband will be joined to me, for I have borne him
three sons.” Therefore he named him Levi [joining].

Vayetze 3rd Aliyah (Gen 29-30)
35 And she conceived again and bore a son, and she said, “This
time I will praise ‫”.יהוה‬ Therefore, she named him Y’hudah
[praise]. And then she ceased bearing.
1 And Rachel saw that she had not borne any children to
Ya‘akov, and Rachel envied her sister, and she said to Ya‘akov,
“Give me children, and if not, I am dead!”

2 And Ya‘akov became angry with Rachel, and he said, “Am I
instead of Elohim, who has withheld from you the fruit of the
womb?”
3 So she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah; come to her, and
she will bear children on my knees, so that I, too, will be built
up from her.”

4 So she gave him her maidservant Bilhah for a wife, and
Ya‘akov came to her, 5 and Bilhah conceived, and she bore
Ya‘akov a son. 6 And Rachel said, “Elohim has vindicated me,
and he has also listened to my voice and has given me a son.”
So she named him Dan [he judged].
7 And Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant, conceived again and bore
Ya‘akov a second son.

8 And Rachel said, “With divine bonds I have been joined to my
sister; I have also prevailed.” So she named him Naftali [my
wrestling].
9 When Le’ah saw that she had stopped having children, she
took her maidservant Zilpah, and gave her to Ya‘akov for a
wife. 10 And Zilpah, Le’ah’s maidservant, bore Ya‘akov a son.

11 And Le’ah said, “Luck has come!” So she named him Gad
[good fortune].
12 And Zilpah, Le’ah’s maidservant, bore Ya‘akov a second son.
13 And Le’ah said, “Because of my good fortune, for daughters
have declared me blessed.” So she named him Asher [happy].

Vayetze 4th Aliyah (Gen 30)
14 Re’uven went in the days of the wheat harvest, and found
dudaim in the field and brought them to his mother Le’ah. And
Rachel said to Le’ah, “Please give me some of your son’s
dudaim [so that I can be fertile].”

15 But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken
my husband? And would you take my son’s dudaim also?”
So Rachel said, “Therefore, he can lie with you tonight in return
for your son’s dudaim.”

16 When Ya‘akov came in from the field in the evening, and Le’ah
went out to meet him, and she said, “You must come to me,
because I have hired you with my son’s dudaim.” And he lay
with her that night.
17 Elohim listened to Le’ah, and she conceived and bore Ya‘akov
a fifth son.

18 Then Le’ah said, “Elohim has given me my wages for I have
given my maidservant to my husband.” So she named him
Yissakhar [hire, reward].
19 Le’ah conceived again and bore Ya‘akov a sixth son. 20 Then
Le’ah said, “Elohim has presented me with a good present.
This time my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne
him six sons.” So she named him Z’vulun [living together].

21 And afterwards, she bore a daughter and named her Dinah.
22 Then Elohim remembered Rachel; and Elohim listened to her
and opened her womb. 23 And she conceived and bore a son
and said, “Elohim has taken away my reproach.”

24 So she named him Yosef [may he add], saying, “May ‫יהוה‬
grant me yet another son.”
25 It came to pass when Rachel had borne Yosef, that Ya‘akov
said to Lavan, “Send me away, and I will go to my place and to
my land. 26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I
worked for you, and I will go, for you know my work which I
have worked for you.”

27 And Lavan said to him, “If only I have now found favor in your
eyes. I have divined, and ‫יהוה‬ has blessed me for your sake.”

28 He added, “Name your wages for me, and I will give it.”
29 And he said to him, “You know how I have worked for you and
how your livestock have fared with me. 30 For it was little that
you had before I came, and it is now increased in multitude,
and ‫יהוה‬ has blessed you wherever I turned. But now, when
may I, too, provide for my own house?”

31 And he said, “What shall I give you?”
And Ya‘akov said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do
this one thing for me, I shall feed and guard your flocks: 32 Let
me pass through all your flocks today, removing from there
every speckled and spotted sheep, and every brown lamb
among the sheep and the spotted and speckled among the
goats. And this will be my wages.

33 And my righteousness shall answer for me in time to come for
it will come upon my wages. Whatever is not speckled or
spotted among the goats or brown among the sheep, if found
with me, will be considered stolen.”
34 And Lavan said, “Very well! If only it would be as you say.”

35 And he removed on that day the speckled and the spotted
male goats, and all the speckled and spotted female goats and
every one that had some white on it and all the brown ones
among the sheep, and he gave them into the hand of his sons.
36 And he put a distance of three days’ journey between
himself and Ya‘akov, and Ya‘akov fed the rest of Lavan’s flocks.

37 And Ya‘akov took green rods of poplar, and almond, and
chestnut trees and peeled white strips upon them, exposing the
white that was on the rods.

38 And he set the rods that he had peeled, into the gutters in the
watering troughs where the flocks would come to drink
opposite the other flocks, and they would come into heat when
they came to drink, 39 and the flocks came into heat by the
rods. And the flocks bore streaked, speckled, and spotted
young.

40 And Ya‘akov separated the lambs, and made the flocks face
toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Lavan,
and he put his own flocks apart, and did not put them with
Lavan’s flock. 41 And it came to pass, that whenever the flocks
that were bearing their first would come into heat, Ya‘akov
would place the rods in the gutters, before the eyes of the
flocks, in order to bring them into heat by means of the rods,

42 but if the flocks would delay, he would not place them, so that
the ones that delayed were Lavan’s and the ones that bore
their first became Ya‘akov’s. 43 And the man became
exceedingly prosperous and he had many flocks, and
maidservants and manservants, and camels and donkeys.

1 And he heard the words of Lavan’s sons, saying, “Ya‘akov has
taken all that belonged to our father, and from what belonged
to our father he has made this entire wealth.” 2 And Ya‘akov
saw Lavan’s face, that he was not disposed toward him as he
had been yesterday and the day before.
3 And ‫יהוה‬ said to Ya‘akov, “Return to the land of your fathers
and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

4 So Ya‘akov sent and called Rachel and Le’ah to the field, to his
flocks. 5 And he said to them, "I see your father's face, that he
is not disposed toward me as he was yesterday and the day
before, but the Elohim of my father was with me. 6 And you
know that with all my strength I served your father, 7 but your
father deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but
Elohim did not allow him to harm me.

8 If he would say thus, ‘Speckled ones will be your wages,’ all the
flocks would bear speckled ones; and if he would say thus,
‘Streaked ones will be your wages,’ all the flocks would bear
streaked ones. 9 Thus, Elohim separated your father's
livestock and gave it to me.

10 “And it came to pass at the time the flocks came into heat, that
I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the male
goats that mounted the flocks were streaked, speckled, and
mottled. 11 And the messenger of Elohim spoke to me in a
dream, ‘Ya‘akov.’ And I said, ‘Here I am.’

12 And he said, 'Now lift your eyes and see that all the male
goats mounting the flocks are streaked, speckled, and mottled,
for I have seen all that Lavan is doing to you. 13 I am the El of
Beit-El, where you anointed the pillar and where you made to
me a vow. Now, arise, go forth from this land and return to the
land of your birth.’”

14 And Rachel and Le’ah answered and said to him, “Do we still
have a portion or an inheritance in our father's house? 15 Are
we not reckoned by him as strangers? For he has sold us, and
also consumed our silver. 16 But all the wealth that Elohim took
from our father is ours and our children’s. So now, all that
Elohim said to you, do.”

17 Then Ya‘akov rose, and he put his sons and his wives upon
the camels, 18 and he drove all his livestock, and all his
possessions that he had acquired, the purchase of his
acquisition, which he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, to go to
Yitz’chak his father in the land of Kena‘an.
19 Now Lavan had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the
house idols that were her father’s.

20 And Ya‘akov deceived Lavan the Arami by not telling him that
he was fleeing. 21 So he fled with all that he had, and he arose
and crossed the [Euphrates] River, and he directed his face
toward the hill country of Gil‘ad.
22 On the third day Lavan was told that Ya‘akov had fled. 23 So
he took his relatives with him, and he pursued him seven days’
journey and he overtook him in the hill country of Gil‘ad.

24 And Elohim came to Lavan the Arami in a dream of the night
and said to him, “Be careful that you do not speak to Ya‘akov,
either good or evil.”
25 And Lavan overtook Ya‘akov, and Ya‘akov had pitched his tent
in the hill, and Lavan with his brothers pitched on Mount Gil‘ad.

26 Then Lavan said to Ya‘akov, “What have you done, that you
concealed from me, and carried away my daughters like
captives taken with the sword?

27 Why have you fled secretly, and concealed from me, and not
told me? I would have sent you away with joy and with songs,
and with tambourine and with lyre? 28 And you did not allow
me to kiss my sons and daughters. Now, you have acted
foolishly. 29 I have the power to inflict harm upon you, but the
Elohim of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Beware of
speaking with Ya‘akov either good or evil.’

30 But now, you have gone away, for you longed for your father’s
house, but why have you stolen my gods?”
31 And Ya‘akov answered, and he said to Lavan, “Because I was
afraid, because I said, ‘Lest you steal your daughters from me.

32 The one with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the
presence of our brothers, see for yourself what is with me, and
take it for yourself.” For Ya‘akov did not know that Rachel had
stolen them.
33 So Lavan went into Ya‘akov’s tent, and into Le’ah’s tent, and
into the tent of the two handmaids, but he did not find them.
And he came out of Le’ah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.

34 But Rachel had taken the teraphim and put them into the
camel saddle, and sat upon them; so Lavan felt about the
entire tent but did not find them.
35 And she said to her father, “Let my master not be annoyed, for
I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me.” So
he searched but did not find the teraphim.

36 And Ya‘akov was wroth, and he contended with Lavan, and he
said to Lavan, “What is my transgression? What is my sin, that
you have pursued me? 37 For you have felt about all my
goods, what have you found of all the goods of your
household? Set it here, in the presence of my brothers and
your brothers, and let them decide between the two of us.

38 “Already twenty years have I been with you, and your ewes
and female goats have not miscarried, neither have I eaten the
rams of your flocks. 39 I have not brought home to you
anything torn by other beasts; I would suffer its loss; from my
hand you would demand it, what was stolen by day and what
was stolen at night. 40 I was in the field by day when the heat
consumed me, and the frost at night, and my sleep fled from
my eyes.

41 This is twenty years that I have spent in your house. I served
you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for
your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times. 42 Had not
the Elohim of my father, the Elohim of Avraham and the Fear of
Yitz’chak, been for me, you would now have sent me away
empty handed. Elohim has seen my affliction and the labour of
my hands, and he rebuked you last night.”

43 Lavan answered and said to Ya‘akov, “These daughters are
my daughters, and these children are my children, and this
flock is my flock, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do
today to these my daughters or to their children whom they
have borne? 44 So now, come, let us make a covenant, you
and I, and may he be a witness between you and me.”
45 So Ya‘akov took a stone and set it up as a column.

46 And Ya‘akov said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” And they
took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap.

47 And Lavan called it Y’gar-Sahaduta [“heap of witness” in
Aramaic], but Ya‘akov called it Gal-‘Ed [“heap of witness” in
Hebrew].
48 And Lavan said, “This heap is a witness between you and me
today." Therefore its name was called Gal-‘Ed. 49 And also
HaMitzpah [the watchtower], because he said, “May ‫יהוה‬
watch between you and me when we are hidden from each
other.

50 If you afflict my daughters or if you take other wives in addition
to my daughters when no one is with us, behold! Elohim is a
witness between you and me.”
51 And Lavan said to Ya‘akov, “Behold this heap and behold this
column, which I have placed between you and me.

52 This heap be witness, and this column be witness, that I will
not pass this heap to go to you and that you will not pass this
heap and this column to come to me to do harm. 53 May the
Elohim of Avraham and the Elohim of Nachor judge between
us, the Elohim of their father.”
And Ya‘akov swore by the Fear of his father Yitz’chak.

Vayetze 7th Aliyah-Maftir (Gen 31-32)
54 And Ya‘akov brought an offering on the mountain, and he
called his brothers to eat bread. And they ate bread and lodged
on the mountain.
1 And Lavan arose early in the morning and kissed his sons and
daughters and blessed them. And Lavan left and returned to
his place.

Vayetze Maftir (Gen 32)
2 And Ya‘akov went on his way, and messengers of Elohim met
him. 3 And Ya‘akov said when he saw them, “This is the camp
of Elohim.” And he called the place Machanayim [two camps].

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